Since 1996 the Fund has worked with local ranchers, the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Clark County to purchase willing sellers’ grazing allotments on public lands that contain habitat for the desert tortoise and banded gila monster. In 2001 the Fund negotiated the purchase of grazing rights on 76,384 acres of the Sand Hollow and Beacon allotments, bringing protected lands to more than 730,000 acres. The Fund’s new initiative on grazing rights is an effort to strengthen ranching communities by helping landowners retire marginal allotments and thereby providing them with new money to reinvest in more productive operations.
The Garcia River Forest – a Conservation Fund-owned forest on California’s North Coast – became one of the first forests – and the largest – recognized by the California Climate Action Registry as a certified source of carbon credits.
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