Posted on 01/13/2025 6:48:29 AM PST by cuz1961
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Bureau of Land Management has acquired the Lost Coast Redwoods property from Save the Redwoods League ensuring lasting protections of approximately 4,500 acres along eight miles of California coastline. Conservation of the Lost Coast Redwoods benefits coastal wildlife and future public access. Funded by the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, Save the Redwoods League, and the State of California’s Wildlife Conservation Board and Coastal Conservancy,...
...The future management of the Lost Coast Redwoods is supported by the Lost Coast Redwoods Sustainable Stewardship Endowment established through a $2 million donation from Save the Redwoods League, made possible through the Foundation for America’s Public Lands, the official charitable partner of the BLM. The endowment establishes a sustained source of funding available to the BLM for stewardship, public access, tribal engagement and in support of long-term conservation for Lost Coast Redwoods. ..
Much of the region was in active timber production since the 1880s. Save the Redwoods League started to purchase portions of the property in 2008 and completed the entire acquisition in December 2021. The League has been actively working on restoration and public access projects on the property for over a decade. ....
The Land and Water Conservation Fund was permanently authorized in 2019. In 2020, Congress passed the Great American Outdoors Act, providing $900 million in Land and Water Conservation Fund funding annually. Congress allocates this funding to the BLM, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and state and local governments.
The Foundation for America’s Public Lands was chartered by Congress in 2017 and officially formed in 2022. The Foundation operates and raises private funds to help raise awareness, increase access, and inspire stewardship of more than 245 million acres of U.S. public lands and waters.
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" the Tango "
A decade to provide public access. This is the entire problem with government projects. You take a decade or two to do what should be done in 6 months to a year.
Damn, I almost had a heart attack. I read the headline and thought this was about the African BLM commies. The followers of St. Floyd of Fentanyl.
Let’s see…the government gives money go the ngo, who buy the land, and then give it/sell it back to the government. Did I miss anything?
More Leftist land management. What could go wrong?
This area will be destroyed in short order. Government run right into the ground.
About 50% of the people here only read the headlines and then comment on the story. The comments here are going to be fun.
Black trees matter!
Me too! Lol
I’ve often said, if you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, you’ll soon have a shortage of sand.
It’s getting harder to source redwood — my house has redwood siding and a 1,200 sq.ft redwood deck, I replace a few deck boards every summer but it’s getting harder to obtain them...
Yeah, once you get west of the Rockies, BLM has an entirely different meaning.
I don’t think the government is taking a decade to provide access, I think it was the group that originally bought the land that worked on access for awhile. Apparently there is an Indian tribe involved and that complicated matters.
How soon before the feds ban public access to this property?
You thought that Black Lives Martwr has forests now, admitted it.🤣
“It’s getting harder to source redwood”
I’m pretty sure I saw a redwood growing in Washington, DC.
I would think redwoods could be grown in many other places than just coastal California.
Good luck! Your tax $ at work
On my jeep rounds, I find The most mismanaged lands to be BLM lands.
They are not managed at all, full of fire prone growth and left to the riffraff to pile garbage out there.
They once grew worldwide.
But something called climate change fixed that...and BTW, that climate change happened before human population. Imagine that.
There are entire groves grown in the UK.
They have them reestablished in lower Michigan on the lake Michigan coast.
The BLM will cut down redwoods to build houses in that area for the H1B’s.
same
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