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Bay Area Land Conservation and
Changing Demographics
George Wright Society Conference
March 31, 2015
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This is AnnieAnnie Burke
Deputy Director
Twitter: @BA_OpenSpace
Instagram: @bayareaopenspace
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Photo: Lech Naumovich
What does land conservation
mean in the Bay Area?
How does land conservation
happen in the Bay Area?
Who’s changing?
How can we all use our
Outdoor Voice?
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Photo: Lech Naumovich
What does land conservation
mean in the Bay Area?
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1.4 million acres of
protected land
1 million acres publicly
accessible
10’s of millions of park
visitors annually
Thousands of trailheads
Hundreds of thousands
of acres in farms and
ranches
7 million human residents
Biodiversity hotspot
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Redwood forests
Rich agricultural land
Oak woodlands
Hundreds of watersheds
Sacramento Delta
Prairies and grasslands
Mountains and ridges
Urban parks
Beaches and shoreline
Trails of many kinds
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Land acquisition
Land stewardship
Outdoor education
Community building
Food production
Water supply
Public health
Habitat restoration
Cultural resources
And 100 other flavors
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• Conservation Lands Network
(BayAreaLands.org)
• Nonprofit land trusts buy land, turn
over to public agency
• Partnerships between land trusts
and Native tribes
• 20,000 acres in Buckeye Forest in
Sonoma Co all the way to 8 acres
in El Cerrito purchased by Trust for
Public Land
• Habitat Conservation Plans, Master
plans, Greenprints, Mitigation and
Vision Documents
• And more…
Some examples of how the Bay Area:
PROTECTS THE LAND
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• Stewardship 5.0 led by
Sempervirens Fund
• Tamalpais Lands Collaborative
• Urban Releaf in Oakland
• Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate
Change Collaboration
• Critical Linkages for wildlife
• Save the Redwoods climate
change research
• And more…
Some examples of how the Bay Area:
STEWARDS THE LAND
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• Grazing on public lands
• Sunol AgPark
• Pie Ranch
• Coyote Valley in the south bay
• Conservation easements
• Marin Carbon Project
• UC Cooperative Extension
• And more…
Some examples of how the Bay Area:
WORKS THE LAND
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• Trails Challenge by East Bay
Regional Park District
• Healthy Parks Healthy People
• Pogo Park in Richmond
• LandPaths’ Bayer Farm
• Shuttle from Bayview Hunters
Point to the Presidio
• Ridge Trail and Bay Trail
• And more…
Some examples of how the Bay Area:
CONNECTS PEOPLE TO THE LAND
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How does land conservation
happen in the Bay Area?
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“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Aristotle
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65 member organizations and agencies including:
Nonprofits: land trusts, advocacy organizations,
friends groups, conservancies
Cities
Counties
Special districts
Resource Conservation Districts
California State Parks
Federal agencies: National Park Service, BLM
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Relationships
Photo by Jen Hale
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Break
bread
together
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Share information
(and not just the good stuff)Photo: Jen Hale
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Make it visible
Photo: Jen Hale
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Have fun
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Who’s changing?
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By 2050, California’s population will grow by 35%.
That’s the size of metro LA today.
95% of Californians live in urban areas. This isn’t
expected to change.
Today Latinos are the largest ethnic group in
California – by 2050 Latinos will comprise nearly
half the population.
Nearly a quarter of Californians live in poverty
today.
California is growing older, more obese, and
unhealthy.
Source: California Council of Land Trust’s Horizon’s Report
CA
LIF
OR
NIA
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Source: Plan Bay Area, Chapter 2
Between 2010 and 2040, the Bay Area is
projected to add 2.1 million people and 660,000
homes, for a total of 9.3 million people and 3.4
million homes.
By 2040 Latinos will emerge as the largest ethnic
group, increasing from 23% to 35%.
The number of Asians will increase from 21% to
about 24% of the population.
Non-Hispanic whites will drop sharply from
approximately 45% in 2010 to about 31% in 2040.
The African-American population is expected to
decline slightly, dropping from 6% to 5%.BA
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Source: Focus group with 10 Latino participants, January 2015
There is an untapped potential to engage Latinos
and business/tech workers.
People need to be asked to get involved.
LA
TIN
OS
and B
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SS
I don’t know if I would have done that if not prompted
to, but now that I see it on here, it is worthy of giving a
portion of that (theoretical) $1,000.
I was one of those who wouldn’t have thought to give
to natural areas, unless prompted.
It looks like some of these parks need help and there
is a bunch of things I can do, not just make a bunch of
trailheads. It seems like there is something I can do.
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What are we doing about it?
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What we do What they do
Where the magic happens
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What we do What they do
Where the magic happens
National Park Youth program
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What we do What they do
Where the magic happens
National Park Youth program
Land trustPublic health
department
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What we do What they do
Where the magic happens
National Park Youth program
Land trustPublic health
department
Parks
& Rec
dept
Job
training
center
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Maybe we don’t need to change
what we’re doing.
We will need to change
how we’re doing it.
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How can we all use our
Outdoor Voice?
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What if we did this math:
Ecosystem of organizations
and agencies protecting the
land, stewarding & working the
land, and connecting people to
the land
+
The need for significant
regional funding
+
More Bay Area residents who
care about land conservation IF
prompted
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Outdoor Voice
A regional initiative to
build a large and
diverse constituency for
land conservation
A way for park users to
deepen their experience
with the places they
love
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Outdoor Voice
www.outdoorvoice.org
facebook.com/outdoorv
oice
@outdoorvoice
Launching at Open
Space Conference on
May 14, 2015
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Land conservation means a wide range
of things in the Bay Area.
Embracing a culture of collaboration
means achieving more.
We can change what we do, or how we
do it (or both). Either way we need to
change.
A regional initiative is launching to
maximize opportunities and unify the
region.
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This is AnnieAnnie Burke
Deputy Director
Twitter: @BA_OpenSpace
Instagram: @bayareaopenspace