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News Release: Coast is personally important to 90% of all Californians; 70% wish they could go more often (Posted April 27, 2017)

New research commissioned by the California State Coastal Conservancy has found that 89.3% of all Californian adults agree that the coast is personally important to them, and 68.9% wish they could visit more often. “This research shows us that Californians love the coast, regardless of where they live, how often they visit or who they […]

Ocean Ranch Restoration Project (Posted December 6, 2016)

0.0-Cover-TOC-Acronyms.pdf 2.0-Project-Description.pdf 3.0 Analysis Overview.pdf 3.01 Aesthetics.pdf 3.02 Agriculture.pdf 3.03 Air Quality.pdf 3.04 Biological Resources.pdf 3.05 Cultural Resources.pdf 3.06 Geology and Soils.pdf 3.07 Greenhouse Gas Emissions.pdf 3.08 Hazards and Hazardous Materials.pdf 3.09 Hydrology and Water Quality.pdf 3.10 Land Use 3.11 Noise.pdf 3.12 Public Services and Utilities.pdf 3.13 Recreation.pdf 3.14 Transportation.pdf 3.15 Tribal Cultural Resources.pdf 3.16 […]

The Conservancy at 40 Years: Marin County (Posted June 7, 2016)

The next time you are traveling around west Marin, imagine the expansive rolling hills covered with thousands of homes and highways instead of family farms.  That was the future for many of the ranches and farms of west Marin County if concerned citizens hadn’t banded together to protect Marin’s 150-year old farming heritage. Approximately 40 […]

The Conservancy at 40 Years: Fort Bragg (Posted May 26, 2016)

How many stretches of the California Coastal Trail feature a dynamite shack?  Fort Bragg may have the only one in California! The innocuous looking concrete structure stands on the edge of the bluff in Noyo Headlands Park, the home of the city’s newly opened four mile Kah Kahleh trail, part of the Coastal Trail.  The […]

The Conservancy at 40 Years: The Eel River (Posted May 13, 2016)

Wild and untamed, the Eel River is California’s third largest river system. Once the fourth largest producer of salmon on the Pacific Coast, its salmon runs once exceeded one million fish per year. From headwaters to the sea, the Coastal Conservancy and its partners have worked hard to restore fisheries, protect working lands and enhance […]

Five Year Commemoration of The Cedars Acquisition in Sonoma County (Posted April 29, 2016)

The Cedars supports some of the most unique and extremely unusual botanical, geological and aquatic resources on the planet. Peridotite mantle rock that normally rests 3 to 70 miles below the earth’s surface  and serpentine soils  make this ultra-basic environment home to at least eight endemic plant species. In 2011, the Conservancy partnered with the […]