Management as Defense against Conversion in California

The December 22 Sacramento [California] Bee profiles a Conservation Fund project in California’s Mendocino County to purchase 24,000 acres of watershed forest, including second-growth redwood, and to fund an old-growth restoration program on the tract, in the long term, by harvesting. Hoping to turn the tide of skepticism, the Fund’s President, Larry Selzer, makes the point that “if we can protect this property, it creates a stopper against development, whether it be second homes or vineyards conversion”—and marijuana growers—stressing that “the state doesn’t have the resources to manage large tracts of forest land.”

A local sawmill owner optimistically suggests, “Clearly, this is more viable than the old model, which was industrial forestry.” He seems to mean more viable politically.

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