| May 2, 2008 |
| Reserving the Redwoods |
| San Francisco Chronicle |
| The 145-year era of Pacific Lumber may be eking slowly and painfully toward a close, but the fate of more than 200,000 acres of Douglas fir and redwood forests in Humboldt County remains uncertain. A conservation easement would preserve this forest's beauty and majesty for generations to come - and it needn't have negative impacts on shareholders' bottom lines, either. The Nature Conservancy is eager to work with the new owners to buy an easement at fair market rates, making the idea a win-win for everyone. |
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| January 29, 2008 |
| The Preservation Predicament |
| The New York Times |
| Conservation organizations that work to preserve biologically rich landscapes are confronting a painful realization: In an era of climate change, many of their efforts may be insufficient or beside the point....And everywhere, ecologists and conservation biologists wonder how landscapes already under preservation will change with the climate. |
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| January 20, 2008 |
| Massive Ranch Will Be Protected |
| San Jose Mercury News |
| San Felipe Ranch, the largest privately owned property in Santa Clara County and a rustic, personal retreat for Silicon Valley pioneers Bill Hewlett and David Packard for more than four decades, will forever be protected from development under a landmark deal to be announced Monday (January 21, 2008). |
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| January 20, 2008 |
| Nature Conservancy Buys Desert Acreage |
| San Diego Union Tribune |
| The Nature Conservancy has bought more than 1000 acres of desert in the southeastern corner of San Diego County, with plans to use the the property to expand Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. |
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| January 16, 2008 |
| Nature Conservancy Proposes Plan to Save Troubled Pacific Lumber |
| San Francisco Chronicle |
| Three weeks after the founders of the Gap said they would invest $200 million in a plan to buy the Pacific Lumber Co. out of bankruptcy, a coalition of environmental groups led by the Nature Conservancy is today announcing a rival plan to take the redwood logging firm away from its current owner, Houston financier Charles Hurwitz and his Maxxam Corp. |
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| January 10, 2008 |
| Deal OK'D on Violini Ranch |
| Monterey County The Herald |
| The Big Sur Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy announced the acquisition of a conservation easement on most of the Violini Ranch west of Gonzales, which the groups said will preserve 3,200 acres of oak- and grass-covered hills that straddle the Carmel and Salinas valleys. |
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| November 7, 2007 |
| Private Efforts to Preserve the Coast |
| The New York Times |
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On the last Friday in October, Ed Ewing, who has spent four decades fishing out of Morro Bay in California, took his newly leased boat, the South Bay, for a trial run.
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| October 29, 2007 |
| Tapped to Test the Waters |
| San Luis Obispo Tribune |
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A year after The Nature Conservancy purchased Morro Bay's entire trawl fishing fleet, the group is allowing a fisherman to use one of its permits to test new trawl gear designs that are less damaging to the ocean floor and catch less unwanted marine life.
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| October 13, 2007 |
| Purchase Preserves Meadow as Habitat |
| Sacramento Bee |
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A spectacular mountain meadow just south of Lassen Volcanic National Park will continue its historic use as summer pasture and riparian habitat following its purchase by the Nature Conservancy.
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| September 30, 2007 |
| Santa Cruz Island's Ecological Rebirth |
| Ventura County Star |
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Roaring and bucking like an arthritic rodeo bull, the Toyota Land Cruiser lurches in low gear up a road that appears to have been carved into the side of a cliff by acrobats with garden trowels. To describe the rocky dirt track as steep, narrow, rough and uneven would hardly do justice to its rudimentary nature.
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