The Nature Conservancy Joins with the Northcoast Regional Land Trust to Advance North Coast Conservation
North Coast, Calif. — January 10, 2007 — The Northcoast Regional Land Trust today announced the creation of a cooperative relationship with The Nature Conservancy, an international conservation organization, designed to increase the effectiveness of North Coast conservation efforts. As part of the agreement, The Northcoast Regional Land Trust will work closely with the Conservancy to establish a Conservation Area Plan for the region, and has welcomed George Yandell, project director for The Nature Conservancy, onto its Board of Directors.
“This partnership is a very positive step for the people and wildlife of the North Coast – those here today as well as future generations.” Jim Petruzzi, Executive Director of the Northcoast Regional Land Trust explains “We have an incredible opportunity to maintain the scenic nature, healthy ecosystems and quality
of life in this area through conservation of our working lands and wild spaces, and this new relationship will increase the ability of The Northcoast Regional Land Trust to do just that.”
“The Nature Conservancy recognizes the North Coast as important to California’s future, and an area of particular conservation interest,” said George Yandell. “By pooling our organizational resources, the Conservancy and the Northcoast Regional Land Trust hope to protect this spectacular landscape for both wildlife and people.”
As an area of particular conservation interest the North Coast has nearly a quarter of California’s natural resources and holding only 0.5% of it’s population in Humboldt, Trinity and Del Norte Counties, a ratio that provides superb wildlife habitat, clean water, and healthy ecosystems. While providing organizational resources and project expertise to the Northcoast Regional Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy will be able to use this new affiliation to help in conserving these resources for the future.
This new formal alliance is a natural progression from their previous work together in a broad conservation planning effort in 2004 aimed at synthesizing a regional conservation movement among the many different stakeholders, as well as their contribution to a landscape scale conservation effort aimed at protecting over 25,000 acres of large owner-operated area ranchlands from subdivision called the Six Rivers to the Sea Initiative.
The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working to protect the most ecologically important lands and waters around the world for nature and people. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 15 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 102 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org/california.
Established in 2000 to protect the wild and working lands of Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity Counties, The Northcoast Regional Land Trust has already helped protect more than 6300 acres of land – from coastal bottomlands, to hilltop forests and ranches. As a leading non-profit conservation organization in the region, this collaboration will increase their capacity to engage in and complete conservation projects. Visit the Trust on the web at www.ncrlt.org.
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