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Ecology and Society, 2022 Grazing lands supporting livestock production and nature conservation exemplify land sharing conservation. In California, livestock producers own or manage a large portion of land with the highest biodiversity ecosystems.
Sheila J. Barry
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Ecology and Society, 2008 Conservation easements have emerged as an important tool for land trusts and government agencies aiming to conserve private land in the United States. Despite the increase in public investment in conservation easement acquisitions, little is known about ...
Adena R. Rissman, Adina M. Merenlender
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Agricultural easement programs: Saving agriculture or saving the environment?
California Agriculture, 2002 California has 34 local conservation organizations, land trusts and open space districts that seek to protect farmland through conservation easements.
Alvin Sokolow, Cathy Lemp
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Agricultural easements limited geographically
California Agriculture, 2002 A review of conservation programs in the state shows that agricultural easements are concentrated in central coastal counties. Many of these counties, such as Marin and Sonoma, are not top agricultural regions, while some of the state's
Alvin Sokolow
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Conservation Letters, 2019 Biodiversity conservation requires space where conservation measures are implemented for a desired purpose. Setting land aside for conservation has been widely applied, while novel conservation modes (private–public partnerships, private multipurpose ...
Oliver Schöttker, Maria João Santos
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Conservation easements (CEs) play an important role in the provision of ecological services. This paper aims to use the open-access Sentinel-2 satellites to advance existing conservation management capacity to a new level of near-real-time monitoring and
Ligang Zhang, Qiao Hu, Zhenghong Tang
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Landowners, while pleased with agricultural easements, suggest improvements
California Agriculture, 2002 We extensively interviewed 46 landowners in two northern Bay Area counties and nearby Yolo County to assess their satisfaction with agricultural conservation easements.
E Rilla
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Zoning for Conservation Easements
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Conservation easements have proliferated across the United States. These private agreements have profound impacts on local land use and are supported by general subsidies from the public, but are generally not connected in any way to local land use plans or zoning ordinances.
Richardson, Jesse J., Jr. +1 more
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New distributional records and rediscovery of three rare freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae) in the Sequatchie River, Tennessee [PDF]
Check List, 2023 We present new drainage records for five freshwater mussels in the Sequatchie River, a tributary of the Tennessee River. We also report the rediscovery of Purple Lilliput, Toxolasma lividum Rafinesque, 1831, Tennessee Pigtoe, Pleuronaia barnesiana (Lea ...
Gerald R. Dinkins +4 more
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Conservation Easements: Options for Preserving Current Land Uses
EDIS, 2014 Conservation easements are cost-effective means for government agencies or non-government conservation organizations to protect land. Instead of purchasing land outright, these agreements allow organizations to purchase the development rights of a ...
Chris Demers, Douglas R. Carter
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