Keeping Sierra lands wild
The Dec. 30 deal is the first major success of the Northern Sierra Partnership and an an important conservation success of the Sierra Checkerboard Initiative.
The 982-acre meadow northwest of Truckee is an integral piece of anunusual land grant made almost 150 years ago that left pristineforests, rivers and valuable wildlife habitat in the northern Sierra ina checkerboard pattern of alternating public and private ownership.
Bisected by a meandering section of the Little Truckee River, theremote, snow-covered meadow was in imminent danger of being sold todevelopers or parceled out for vacation homes until a conservationcoalition purchased it and two other private properties from SillerBrothers Inc. for $6 million. Read the rest of the article here.
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Sierra Checkerboard Initiative page.
