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Senate committee advances bill to create Grasslands Ecological Area Conservancy
Summary
The Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee moved SB 1108 out to appropriations after testimony from the bill's author and conservation groups that the conservancy would protect Central Valley grasslands and wildlife corridors and help manage anticipated land retirement linked to groundwater sustainability.
Sen. Caballero introduced SB 1108, which would establish the Grasslands Ecological Area Conservancy within the California Natural Resources Agency to protect and restore wetlands, grasslands and nearby wildlife corridors in Merced County and the San Joaquin Valley. The author said the area is among the largest remaining wetland-grassland complexes west of the Mississippi and that the conservancy would coordinate land, water and conservation management and pursue voluntary conservation easements rather than eminent…
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