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Posted on 05/17/2005 10:07:20 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Eight towns would love to land the new Sierra Nevada Conservancy headquarters, projected to eventually have 70 employees and a $10 million budget.
But only two showed up at the historic first meeting of the conservancy board Thursday in Sacramento, and both were from Nevada County.
Nevada City used a laid-back approach in its pitch, but Truckee came on like a runaway snowboarder. Auburn, Colfax, Placerville, Amador City, Ione and Jackson were no-shows.
“Give us your serious consideration,” said Truckee Mayor Craig Threshie in a lengthy speech that trumpeted the town’s location, history and commitment to the range. “We have good intentions.”
But in a speech steeped in brevity, Nevada City Mayor Conley Weaver issued his own invitation.
“We want to invite you to Nevada City anytime. Remember, Nevada City was the first city to endorse the Sierra Conservancy.”
In attendance with Weaver were Nevada City City Manager Mark Miller and Chip Carman and John Paul, who recently produced a slick booklet to land the headquarters in Nevada City. Also at the meeting were former Nevada County Supervisors Peter Van Zant and Izzy Martin, who was there with her colleague from the Nevada City-based Sierra Fund, Shawn Garvey.
The headquarters location will probably not be decided until later this summer, according to California Secretary of Resources Mike Chrisman, who chaired the Sacramento meeting and gave no hints. The board will also select the conservancy’s executive director soon, with a two-person subcommittee doing the initial screening. One of those two will be Inyo County Supervisor Linda Arcularius, who represents her county as well as Mono and Alpine counties on the board.
The other is Gov. Schwarzenegger appointee Bob Kirkwood, a former government-environmental affairs man for Hewlitt-Packard. He hails from Palo Alto but has a place in Alpine County. While there is competition for the headquarters and the top job, speaker after speaker said the conservancy needs to keep the tone of cooperation used to create it.
Republican state Assemblyman Tim Leslie, who crafted the conservancy with Democrat Assemblyman John Laird, said, “There’s still people across the Sierra who hold serious reservations about this conservancy.” The conservancy should “create a collaborative effort,” he said.
Conservancy staffers said the first year’s budget will be $3.5 million for about 20 positions. The money is expected to come from special Sierra vehicle license plates similar to the ones that finance the Lake Tahoe Conservancy.
Staffers said the agency will look to enhance watersheds, wetlands, wildlife habitat and thin forests to protect the ecology and boost the economy in the conservancy’s 22 counties spread out more than 25 million acres.
Partnerships with nonprofit agencies will be explored to help get grants and loans for the projects. Chrisman said the conservancy needs to act quickly to save the Sierra because it is under serious stress from population and pollution.
What is this going to do to Red Emerson and his Sierra Pacific firm?
that=who. You can tell I'm not a Wordslinger.
Why don't you ask Sam Aanastad what the hell he thinks this stupid CONservancy will ever do to help the Sierran economic condition??? It's CA's biggest monument to fiscal and economic stupidity! Even superceding the suspension of the building of Auburn Reservoir on the North Fork of the American River in 1977. That has held the title of CA's biggest monument to stupidity up to now!!!
Ecology: The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments. Also called bionomics. The relationship between organisms and their environment. 2. The branch of sociology that is concerned with studying the relationships between human groups and their physical and social environments. Also called human ecology. 3. The study of the detrimental effects of modern civilization on the environment, with a view toward prevention or reversal through conservation. Also called human ecology.
Yep, they are going to protect the ecology. They are going to protect "The science", "The branch of sociology", and "The Study of". This used to drive my wildlife biology professor nuts when the word ecolgy was used this way. But when you think about it, the bureaucrats are exactly correct in their statement, they are going to protect their own jobs first. All they want is the money.
When we moved in here from the People's Republic of Davis, the first thing we noticed were the "FLATLANDERS GO HOME!" signs spray painted on State Hwy 49. As soon as we emptied the U-HAUL truck my two sons wanted to go spray that on State Hwy 193, too!!!
Money 1st
Principles LAST
Now all ya gotta do is call Register.com!!!
new age econ.
You pegged it.
I think I will. My guess is, like the squeamish Mr. Leslie, he would rather be on the inside than the outside.
Thanks.
Careful, Sierra. You might be saying too much there. ;)
BTT!!!!!!
Protect Private Property Rights!
Stop the attacks on our Freedoms by the wacko, extreme left-wing, lunatic fringe, dirt worshipping Green Jihadist, enviro-nazis terrorist's and their toadies in the media!
Drill for oil and gas, build more oil refineries, build more power plants, including nuclear!
Protect The Forest ... Eradicate The Greenies!
Fighting Irresponsible Radical Environmentalism!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For!
Let's Roll!
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No way! That was over a quarter century ago and the statute of lamentations ran out a long time ago! (grin, grin, grin)
You couldn't have guessed any more correctly and then proceeded to articulate it any more precisely!!!
The "squeamish" adjective is the epitome of accuracy!!!
There ain't no way for a 'gully-runner' like y'all to become a ridge-runner. Go back, go wayyyy back :o)
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