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The tract adjoins the Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve on Somerville Road in Antioch, California. EBRPD plans to use the property to create a northern entrance to the preserve. The price agreed upon is $305,000. Funding is expected to come from the California Wildlife Protection Act and East Bay Regional Parks Measure WW funds. [27]
On March 31, 2005, Audubon California chapter and California Department of Fish and Game bought 4,358 acres (17.64 km 2) of the Sprague Ranch. The purchase was in part to mitigate for the flooding of the South Fork Wildlife Area from Lake Isabella during high water years and resulting loss of willow flycatcher habitat.
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 ...
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 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.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW), through its seven regional divisions, [15] manages more than 700 protected areas statewide, totaling 1,177,180 acres (4,763.9 km 2). [16] They are broadly categorized as: 110 wildlife areas, [17] designed to give the public easier access to wildlife while preserving habitats.
It is managed by the California Department of Fish and Game to protect and preserve habitat, wildlife and open space, including the pristine Buckeye Canyon and parts of Owl Canyon. In 1989, the state Wildlife Conservation Board purchased the land as an ecological reserve with Proposition 70 funds. [2]
The land was purchased by the CDFG on March 28, 1988, for $46,000 with funds provided by the State Public Works Board [4] and the California Wildlife Conservation Board. [3] A post and rail fence was installed by CDGF to limit access.