STEWARDSHIP

MANAGING PROTECTED LANDS FOREVER

Our responsibility to the land does not end after Placer Land Trust protects it through conservation easements, agricultural easements, or fee title ownership. To ensure that the land remains protected forever, we are obligated to be stewards of the land. In the case of conservation or agricultural easements, our responsibilities and obligations are spelled out in the easement documents. In the case of fee title ownership, PLT adopts proven stewardship plans appropriate for each specific property.

In some cases, stewardship responsibilities can be as simple as keeping the property clean of litter, removing excess brush that poses a fire hazard, and monitoring the property for appropriate use. In other cases, complex management plans are required to ensure that the property retains its important or unique conservation values. Stewardship is an evolving art that nonetheless relies heavily on science, and its importance to the land is paramount if the land is to be truly protected forever.

Proper stewardship requires PLT to continually devote staff time and expenses year after year … and so on into perpetuity. Also, expenses such as disaster restoration, violation estoppels and reparations, and legal defense of easements (though unforeseen) are unfortunately not unheard-of occurrences, and funds must be made available to cover these occurrences. For these reasons, it is critical that PLT receive funding for a stewardship "endowment" for the properties we protect.

Adequate endowment funding is one of the greatest challenges facing any land trust, and PLT is no different. If you can help by making a contribution to the PLT Stewardship Endowment, please contact us!

To learn more about how protected lands are managed and/or monitored by PLT for future generations, see the appropriate project below (grouped by watershed, roughly from north to south) or give us a call.

BEAR RIVER watershed

• Shutamul Bear River Preserve, 40 acres, Auburn
• Liberty Ranch Big Hill Preserve, 321 acres, Auburn
• Garden Bar Preserve, 912 acres, Lincoln
  

COON CREEK watershed

• Warren Preserve, 27 acres, Auburn
• Taylor Ranch Preserve, 321 acres, Auburn
• Kotomyan Big Hill Preserve, 160 acres, Auburn
• Doty Ravine Preserve, 427 acres, Lincoln
• Swainson's Grassland Preserve, 469 acres, Lincoln

AUBURN RAVINE watershed

• Auburn School Park Preserve, 4 acres, Auburn
• Labadie Farm, 30 acres, Newcastle
• Columbia Wetlands Preserve, 11 acres, Newcastle

PLEASANT GROVE / CURRY CREEK watershed

• Reason Farms Environmental Preserve, 227 acres, Roseville
• Toad Hill Ranch, 1,000 acres, Roseville

AMERICAN RIVER watershed

• Codfish Falls Trail Preserve, 30 acres, Weimar
• Canyon View Preserve, 50 acres, Bowman
• Stagecoach Preserve, 10 acres, Auburn
• Bettencourt Preserve, 71 acres, Auburn

For more information about PLT's land stewardship programs – and how you can help – contact Joselin Matkins, Stewardship Coordinator, at (530) 887-9222.

 

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