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Placer Conservation Authority reports early progress on 50-year conservation plan; council presses for local tracking
Summary
Greg McKenzie, executive director of the Placer Conservation Authority, told the Lincoln City Council the PCCP has acquired roughly 3,682 acres into a 47,300-acre reserve system and recorded about 120 acres of land conversion in 2023; council members and residents pressed for clearer tracking of who uses the program, how agriculture and utility-scale solar projects are treated, and how Lincoln funds were spent.
Greg McKenzie, executive director of the Placer Conservation Authority, presented the draft annual report for the Placer County Conservation Plan covering Calendar Year 2023 to the Lincoln City Council on June 25. He said the program, which carries a 50-year federal and state permit, has recorded roughly 120 acres of habitat conversion in Western Placer County in the past year and about 821 acres of conversion cumulatively over the prior two years, while acquiring about 3,682 acres into the reserve system to date.
"It's a permit that covers impacts to fish and wildlife species and habitat for the next 50 years," McKenzie told the council, outlining that the agency had secured state and federal permits in 2021 and is now in the early years of long-term…
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