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The 2005 purchase by the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) used Proposition 117 funds. [5] Proposition 117, known as the California Wildlife Protection Act of 1990, created the Habitat Conservation Fund with an annual budget of $30 million, for various state agencies such as the WCB.
These sentiments led to the creation of the Board of Fish Commissioners in 1870 (the first wildlife conservation agency in the country), [3] the Division of Forestry in 1881 (housed within the state's Department of Agriculture) and the Board of Forestry in 1885. [1]
The San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC) is an agency of the State of California in the United States with the mission of preserving open space and habitat for low-impact recreation and educational uses, wildlife habitat restoration and protection, and watershed improvements within its jurisdiction. [1]
The 40 Acre Conservation League acquired more than 650 acres of Sierra forest land in the Emigrant Gap area of Placer County in August, using a $3 million award from a pair of conservation groups ...
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The 40 Acres Conservation League is on a mission to establish an open space where Black Californians and other people of color can feel at home in nature.
Lake Merritt in Oakland was made the first game refuge of California in 1869, believed to be the first in the United States. In 1870, the Legislature, with the support of Governor Henry Huntly Haight, created the Board of Fish Commissioners. The Board stipulated that fish ladders were now required at state dams. The Board outlawed explosives or ...
The Sacramento group acquired the land in August 2023 using $3 million in grant money awarded by the Wildlife Conservation Board and Sierra Nevada Conservancy. The group’s mission is to make the ...