Land Trust of Santa Cruz County and their Conservation Blueprint is featured in today’s Santa Cruz Sentinel editorial.
<<…The Land Trust has identified eight key areas in the county that will offer multiple environmental benefits if protected, including the Pajaro Hills, where the organization has already been preserving ranch and grasslands by working with large property owners. Other areas include the Watsonville Slough area, Corralitos, Interlaken, Larkin Valley, the upper San Lorenzo River region, North Coast watersheds, river and riparian systems, and sandhills in North County.
Ultimately, the Land Trust hopes to get 50,000 additional acres protected as new pressures on water supplies and wildlife habitat are created by a population increase estimated to be 35,000 over 25 years.
Santa Cruz County — with its coastline, redwoods, mountains, streams and ranchlands — faces ever-changing land-use and biodiversity challenges. Water is perhaps the biggest issue, with the overdraft of underground aquifers having become a major issue for agriculture and local water users alike…>>
Important information for the San Lorenzo Valley which has, in the recent past, been threatened by unsustainable high density development.
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