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The Wildlands Project

The Wildlands Project. Conservation Easements: The Key to the Corridors.

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The Wildlands Project

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  1. The Wildlands Project

  2. Conservation Easements: The Key to the Corridors • “If we identify a ranch … that’s between two wilderness reserves, and we feel it will be necessary as a corridor, we can say to the rancher, ‘We don’t want you to give up your ranch now, but let us put a conservation easement on it. Let’s work out the tax details so you can donate it in your will to this reserve system’.” Dave Foreman Listening to the Land by Derrick Jensen (Sierra Club Books)

  3. Conservation Easements: The Key to the Corridors • "The only hope of the Earth is to withdraw huge areas as inviolate natural sanctuaries from the depredations of modern industry and technology. Move out the people and cars. Reclaim the roads and the plowed lands." Dave Foreman Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

  4. Conservation Easements: The Key to the Corridors • ”Conservation Easements are the key to the Corridors. Once the Easements are Legally in Place, We can Impose Habitat Restrictions for Wildlife thus Ending Grazing and Other Agricultural Practices. If the Landowner Refuses, the Easement Management Loophole will Allow Us to Sue the Landowner and Impose those Restrictions.” New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Meeting, May 1999

  5. Arizona and New Mexico Targeted Connecting Corridors New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Meeting, May 1999

  6. Ultimate Wildlands Project Goal in the Southwest RED AREAS INDICATE LITTLE TO NO HUMAN USE!!

  7. Wildlands Project Goals for California RED AREAS INDICATE LITTLE TO NO HUMAN USE!!

  8. CALTRANS Wildlands Project Goals • CALTRANS funding (state and federal) • habitat connectivity project. • Map from CEHCP - • California Essential Habitat Connectivity Project • Description • The California Department of Transportation and California Department of Fish and Game commissioned the California Essential Habitat Connectivity Project because a functional network of connected wildlands is essential to the continued support of California's diverse natural communities in the face of human development and climate change.” • http://databasin.org/datasets/4f6cd2c4e5b4461e9de63e7f7eb2a67a • http://www.dfg.ca.gov/habcon/connectivity/ • http://www.scwildlands.org/projects/caltrans.aspx Areas in yellow to orange/brown are targeted for habitat connectivity.

  9. Essential Connectivity Areas of California (USA) • CALTRANS funding (state and federal) • habitat connectivity project. • Map from CEHCP - • California Essential Habitat Connectivity Project • Description • “The California Department of Transportation and California Department of Fish and Game commissioned the California Essential Habitat Connectivity Project because a functional network of connected wildlands is essential to the continued support of California's diverse natural communities in the face of human development and climate change.” http://databasin.org/datasets/4f6cd2c4e5b4461e9de63e7f7eb2a67a • “…a functional network of connected wildlands…”

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