Spring 2010 Northcoast Regional Land Trust Newsletter

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Land Trust Helps Conserve 3,300 More Acres

I N T H I S I S S U E

Fence (oil on linen)

From the Executive Director 2

Restoring Freshwater Farms 3

Conserving 3,300 Acres 4-5

Accomplishments 6

Leave a Legacy 6

Our New Look 6

Our Supporters 7

The Artist 8

Northcoast regioNal laNd trust

Spring 2010

Stock Schlueter

he Northcoast Regional Landrust is proud to announce theclosing o two conservation

easement properties during thewinter months o 2009-10. Te

end o 2009 brought a urry o activity toour humble oce as we worked to closethe Fortuna Family Forest ConservationEasement beore the end o December.

At the same time, we worked to completePhase I o the Chalk Mountain RanchConservation Easement.

Te Fortuna Family Forest Conserva-tion Easement property, located just easto the City o Fortuna, covers roughly 74acres o mixed conierous orest, and con-

tains tributaries to Strongs Creek, whichprovides water or Fortunas residentsand habitat or endangered salmon. Te

property is jointly owned by three amilieswho purchased the land in 1972 during theback to the land movement (see Land-owner Prole). Working with the Landrust, the landowners developed a conser-vation easement that protects orest andriparian habitat, limits development andsubdivision o the property, and speciescertain orest protections above the stateorestry rules. For example, Legacy rees(the largest conier and hardwood trees thatprovide wildlie habitat) will be identi-ed and preserved.

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Celebrating 10 years of land protection


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From the Executive Director

N O R T H C O A S T R E G I O N A L L A N D T R U S T S P R I N G 2 0 1 0

It is hard to believe that we are already ten years intothis new millennium. Tough this is a reminder ohow quickly time can y, the Land rust is thrilledto celebrate this year with our tenth anniversary.

We are proud o all that we have accomplished inthis decade and we are tremendously grateul to eachand every one o you who have helped us to protect the

working and wild lands o our region.

It is also with much pleasure that I have nowentered my second year as Executive Director o theLand rust. We sure started of with a bang! In lateDecember o last year we were ortunate to work withthree amilies in Fortuna to protect a 74-acre workingorest what we consider to be the model o amilyorestry or our region. We were also excited to complete a conservation easement on thebeautiul Chalk Mountain Ranch in January o this year. Te patience and dedication othe Barnwell amily towards conservation o this incredible property means that thousandso acres o timbered ranchland will be protected orever rom the threat o subdivision.

Concluding our rst ten years with conservation easements on these two properties meansthe Land rust has been able to protect in perpetuitymore than 12,000 acres o coastal,ranch, and orest lands or uture generations.

I think it is also important to consider that conservation does not always come in theorm o acres or miles protected. I am incredibly proud o the strides we are making tobuild stronger communities through our Regional Planning and North Coast Dialoguesprograms. In keeping with our vision to create a sustainable community, the Land rusthas been busy as ever broadening our collaborations and building networks or success.Trough strategic partnerships with regional leaders, we look orward to nding new waysto ofer even more to our community in the ways that are needed most.

Again, this incredible work would not be possible without your support. We thankyou or helping to make these ten years so successul and look orward to serving our

community at an even greater capacity in the years to come.

Board of Directors

President, Ann King Smith, Cultural ResourceSpecialist

1st Vice President, Dennis Rael, BusinessOwner, Los Bagels Company, Inc.

2nd Vice President, Leland Mora, BusinessOwner, Humboldt Auction Yard &

Humbold Grassed BeeSecretary, Yvonne Everett, AssociateProessor, Natural Resources Planning,Humboldt State University

reasurer, Martha Spencer, Senior Planner,Humboldt County Planning Division

Blake Alexandre, Past President, BusinessOwner, Alexandre Family EcoDairy Farms

Mark Andre, Director o EnvironmentalServices, City o Arcata

Bill Bragg, Attorney at Law, Bragg,Perlmen, Russ, Stunich & Eads

Jill Hackett, Business Owner, Ferndale

FarmsJohn Lima, Business Owner, Redwood

Forest Products

Kevin McKernan, Natural ResourcesSpecialist

Fred Neighbor, Attorney at Law, privatepractice

Board Emeritus, David McMurray, Secre-tary, Caliornia Council o Land rusts

Staff

Lindsay Magnuson, Executive Director

Ben Morehead, ProjectsLinda Serrano, DevelopmentRyan Wells, Projects

Shayne Green, Planning Consultant

VolunteersLeslie Scopes Anderson, newsletter layoutCharlie Butterworth, oce assistantKen Magnuson, media extraordinaire

Te Northcoast Regional Land rust is amember o the Land rust Alliance and theCaliornia Council o Land rusts.

Contact the Northcoast Regional Land rust:P.O. Box 398, Bayside, CA 95524Ph: 707.822.2242; Fax: [email protected]; www.ncrlt.org

James AbleDave Albee

Kim BrowningNancy Diamond

Jef DunkZuretti GoosbySteve HackettSandra JerabekLaura Kadlecik

Liz MurguiaColleen OSullivan

Chuck Powellom RoweRondal SnodgrassBill TompsonPaul J. Warner

Arnold WhitridgeKatherine Ziemer

Board of Advisors


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Restoring Freshwater Farms Reserveefort, in order to determine whether ourproject goals are satisactorily met, andto serve as an educational tool or utureprojects o this type.

Finally, the Land rust would liketo extend a special Tank You tothe Caliornia Conservation Corps orcontributing labor or this project, and toPierson Building Center or their generousdonation o tools and other materials. Weare grateul or the communitys ongoingsupport or conservation and enhancemento our North Coast treasures.

In all 2009 the Northcoast Regional Landrust, in partnership with the RedwoodCommunity Action Agency NaturalResources Services Division, constructed abrackish marsh in lower Wood Creek, anarea historically dominated by wetlands ofOld Arcata Road near Tree Corners inFreshwater. idal and reshwater pools andslough channels were created to increase andenhance brackish and reshwater habitat.Small hills, called hummocks, wereconstructed to add topographic diversity. Anold wooden ap tide gate, originally builtto keep the incoming tide rom inundatingthe property, was raised, allowing a careullycontrolled amount o tide water to ood theproject site. A dilapidated culvert crossing

was replaced with a modied trailer bridgeto remove constriction in Wood Creek. We

are already observing recovery o wetlandcharacteristics including standing pools,presence o wading birds and waterowl,

and natural emergence o wetland plants.In addition, CA Department o Fish andGame biologists have observed dozens oyoung coho salmon inhabiting the createdreshwater pool and surrounding habitats in

Wood Creek.o complete this project and urther

enhance this wetland, the Land rustand its partners are planting over 40,000native wetland plants across the 29-acrerestoration site. Seeds and clippings o theseplants were collected at the project site, and

were raised at Freshwater Farms Nursery,conveniently located adjacent to the projectsite. From March 31 to the end o April,the Land rust, RCAA, CCC, and scoreso volunteers rom our community are

working together to plant Lyngbyes sedge,tuted hairgrass, silverweed, small-ruited

bulrush, willow, and sot-stem rush, allnative to the project area. Te Land rustis also coordinating a ve-year monitoring

A special thanks to Humboldt State

Universitys YES House volunteers (shown

here) or planting on March 31.

Photos by Ken Magnuson

Planting Areas


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acres and covering the northern hal o theranch, closed in mid-January 2010. Located

near the town o Bridgeville of AlderpointRoad, Chalk Mountain Ranch has beenowned and managed by the Barnwell Fam-ily since 1884, and has a long history otimber management and cattle ranching.Since 2003 the Barnwell amily, landownerrepresentative Agland Engineering, the stateForest Legacy Program, and the Land rusthave been working together to develop andund a conservation easement to protect thepropertys natural resources in perpetuity.

As outlined in the easement, six mileso streams, which ow into the LarabeeCreek and Van Duzen River systems, are

now protected through riparian bufers andno-cut zones. Subdivision o the easementproperty is now prohibited. Wildlie habitator salmon, steelhead, bear, mountain lion,and peregrine alcons will remain intact.Resource use such as timber harvest andcattle ranching will continue, supplying ourcommunity with local, high quality orestand bee products. Te landowners will alsocontinue to host an annual endurance rideand guided deer hunts. Furthermore, theamazing views that travelers enjoy as theydrive along Alderpoint Road, capped byiconic Chalk Rock, will orever remain a

part o the landscape.

Originally slated or unding throughthe ederal USFS Forest Legacy Program

and the CA Wildlie Conservation Board,budget shortalls in the state required ourstrategy to adapt to a phased approach.Now, with Phase I closed and Phase II(designed to cover the remainder o theRanch) already underway, the Barnwellsare closer to being assured that their amilylegacy will be protected in its natural stateorever.

We at the Northcoast Regional Landrust applaud the eforts o the FortunaFamily Forest and Chalk Mountain Ranchlandowners. Tey solidied their amilyconservation ethic and land use goals with

a permenant conservation easement, whileat the same time retaining private owner-ship and management o the land. Toughthe conservation easement process can belengthy, the Land rust is proud o ourability to assist people who wish to leavesuch a land conservation legacy. I you

would like to discuss conservation optionsor your property, please eel ree to call usat (707) 822-2242.

All three amilies will continue to own andenjoy this orest. It is expected that theselandowners will utilize the ederal tax incen-tive or conservation easement donationsthat has helped thousands o landownersconserve their land across the U.S.A. TeFortuna community will share in theirenjoyment too, as the property continuesto provide a lush green backdrop to theFriendly City.

Phase I o the Chalk Mountain RanchConservation Easement, totaling 3,268

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LAND TRUST HELPS CO

In Memoriam

Richard Philo Barnw

April 27, 1927 - March 18, 2

Your legacy l ives on.. .


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Tree Fortuna amilies have recently re-kindled their back to the land ethics inpartnering with the Northcoast RegionalLand rust. Landowners Lynn and GaryBaker, Nancy and Richard Head, RobertParks, and the late Susan Parks donated

a 74-acre orest conservation easement.Located just outside o Fortuna, thepurpose o the conservation easement (alegally binding agreement) is to assurethat the amilies orestland will remainin its natural, scenic, and sustainablyproductive condition. Te terms o theagreement do not allow or new residen-tial development on the property, even ithe property changes ownership.

Te Baker, Head and Parks ami-lies rst met in Fort Knox, Kentucky in

1971. Tey decided to nd rural prop-erty to share as a community and becomeextended amilies to each other. As luck

would have it, the property came up or salein 1972, the day ater the Heads arrived inFortuna! Te amily trio was soon deemed

urkey Productions, describing their basiccarpentry and country skills needed torenew and rebuild the two houses and theshell o a barn.

Indeed we were all a bunch o ecstaticturkeys, says Nancy Head, rebuilding andrejoicing in our tremendous good ortunein Fortuna. We learned about the land andeach other through the days o working,playing and sharing together. Tere weregoats, rabbits, chickens, geese, cattle, sheepand o course, a couple o noisy, messy

turkeys (that didnt last too long).Te landowners donated the ease-

ment so that the orest and open spacewill remain intact, ofering a great valueto our community, says Lynn Baker.Loss o resources can happen quickly. Igrew up in the ertile Santa Clara Valleyand walked to school through cherry

orchards as ar as you could see. Toseorchards and amily arms dont existanymore, being replaced by housingtracts, malls, and reeways.

Rob Parks and his land partnersagree, All o us on the North Coast lovethe beauty that surrounds us and each ous has a part to play in preserving thatbeauty. I see this conservation easementas our part.

Te Land rust is excited that theamilies decided to donate this orestconservation easement. Te land will

continue to support our natural resource-based economy, provide clean water andair, and protect important habitat. Whilethe donation o a conservation ease-ment ofers the landowners income taxincentives, the propertys tax obligation

will not be reassessed nor taken of theCounty tax rolls. Furthermore, the ami-lies will continue to enjoy all o the rightsand privileges o land ownership. Teseare the types o conservation projects thatbenet every member o our community.

LANDOWNER PROFILE: Fortuna Family Forest

ERVE 3,300 MORE ACRES

Fortuna Family Forest

Conservation Easement

In Memory of

Susan Parks

Your legacy l ives on.. .

August 2002, Camp urkey or the grandkids!


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Our New LookWe recently upgraded our ways tocommunicate with you! Please visit us at; we anticipate that you

will be pleasantly surprised by our new look.Now the inormation about what we do,upcoming events, and how you can help

us accomplish our goals is just one or twoclicks away.

Also, while on our website, you can signup to receive paperless notices and updatesrom us. Please just make sure your emailprogram is set up to include the NorthcoastRegional Land rusts emails, otherwise theymay be ltered as spam. We hope you enjoyour new look and look orward to yourinvolvement in our work!

Celebrating 10 years of land protection2000-2006Founding board members: David McMurray, Rondal Snodgrass,

Carrie Grant, Katherine Ziemer, Sandra Jerabek, Ben Morehead,

Steve Hackett and Kim Browning.

lCompleted work or nonprot 501(c)3 ederal designationlHeld six conservation easement workshops or landownerslAssumed ownership o Freshwater Farms Reserve and solidied a plan to

restore the 54-acre property

lCreated North Coast Dialogues to build community around acollective vision or land use on the North Coast

lPlaced a conservation easement on two working ranches to protect morethan 6,000 acres as part o the Six Rivers to the Sea Initiative

lInitiated Freshwater Farms Reserve restoration and education programs

2007-2008lProtected 320 acres o old and mature growth orest and habitat through

a traner to the public domain

lCompleted a conservation easements on two working ranches, protectingmore than 2,600 acres

lInitiated a outdoor education program, giving 10th grade high schoolstudents the opportunity or scientic inquiry in the eld

2009-2010lAcquired a 77-acre dairy in Orick and protected 74 acres o urban

orestland with a conservation easement

lA Working Lands Vision was developed as part o the North CoastDialogues project

lCompleted a conservation easement on 3,268 acres o working ranchlandlCompleted restoration on 29 acres at Freshwater Farms Reserve

Celebrating 10 years of land protection

Every year members tour otherwise restricted propertyunder Land rust easement stewardship.

LEAVE A LEGACYTere are a number o ways that you canleave a legacy o land conservation. Plannedgits to the Northcoast Regional Land rust made today or tomorrow help us protectspecial places or uture generations.

Tere are many types o charitable gitswith substantial tax advantages. Ideas caninclude:

l Bequests Remember us in your willthrough cash or property bequests.l Charitable Remainder rust

Appreciated assets are placed in anirrevocable trust, becoming the property othe Land rust while providing tax savings.l Appreciated Assets Real estate, stocks,bonds or securities are donated and taxbenets realized rom the donation withoutpaying tax on capital gains.

Please contact your tax advisor asto how best structure your git to theNorthcoast Regional Land rust.


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Freshwater Farms Interpretive Walk

June 12, August 21 & September 11.Put on your sturdy ootwear and join one o our naturalistsor a walk through the meadows, wetlands, and estuary o theFreshwater Farms Reserve. Learn about the natural history andcurrent land use practices around the bay. Contact Ryan Wellsat 822-2242 or [email protected].

Canoe the Slough

June & July 2010.Join us as we paddle with the tide on a natural history tourthrough the Humboldt Bay bottomlands. Well ollow Eurekaand Freshwater Sloughs to nish at Freshwater Farms Reserve.

All boats and gear will be provided. Specic dates and times

will be determined by the tide so please contact our oce at822-2242.

Lay of the Land

Second Tursday of every month, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pmJoin the Land rust and get the Lay o the Land, a one-hourpresentation that gives an overview o what we are doing toprotect and enhance special places our regions arms, orests,rangelands, and natural areas.

HANKS O:

NRLTs Mission

To protect working landscapes, farms, forests and grazinglands, and to preserve and protect land for its natural,educational, scenic and historic values. Our vision for the

future includes vibrant communities, sustainableeconomies and healthy landscapes.

Northcoast regioNal laNd trust

Post Oce Box 398Bayside, CA 95524

Loleta (oil on linen)

Cover ArtiSt -StoCk SChlueterStock Schlueter grew up in Willow Creek, CA and received a B.A.in Fine Arts rom the University o Northern Colorado. In 1973 hestarted showing at galleries in and around Humboldt County. Stock

was selected in the Caliornia Statewide Water Color and DrawingSurvey Exhibition rom 1982 to 1987.

Since then he has won several prestigious awards in galleriesin Washington D.C., Indiana, Ohio, Washington, Oregon, andthroughout Caliornia. His work has been in the Coors National

Western Invitational Show or the last three years and was on the

cover o Southwest Arts Magazine in June 2009.Stock is currently showing at the John Pence Gallery in San

Francisco, the Fairmont Gallery in Sonoma, and the HighlightGallery in Mendocino. Stocks work can also be viewed athttp://stockschlueter.com.

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