Transcript Santa Cruz Mountains Regional Stewardship Planning

SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS
REGIONAL STEWARDSHIP
PLANNING
Experiences and Opportunities in
Partnerships
Photographer Andrew P. Hill, on assignment to
photograph some Santa Cruz Mountain redwoods
after a fire, was accused of trespassing and asked
to hand over his negatives. Hill refused, went
home, and began a crusade to save the redwoods-founding the Sempervirens Club.
Sempervirens Fund is California’s oldest land trust and the only organization
exclusively devoted to permanently protecting the coast redwood forests of
the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Stewardship 5.0 – The Idea!
• Sempervirens Fund received $200,000 in grants to support a 2-year
stewardship planning for the Santa Cruz Mountain Region
• Money will go toward ‘finishing’ the recently completed Conceptual Area
Protection Plan for the Santa Cruz Mountains ~Redwood CAPP by
preparing a complimentary and comprehensive stewardship strategy
• CAPP covers 224,000-acre region
• CAPP identifies 100,000 acres of protected lands and prioritizes an
additional 39,000 acres of land for protection
• Current region is stewarded by more than 25 agencies & nonprofit
organizations
• The required stewardship process will convene landowners and land
managers in the Santa Cruz Mountains to discuss current stewardship
models, how they can be improved, and how to anticipate future needs
and challenges
The Great Park
Goals of the Santa Cruz Mountains Regional
Stewardship Planning process
• Build upon the existing momentum among stakeholders
developed through the CAPP process
• Seriously think about how to best steward the area after the
priority properties identified within the Redwoods CAPP have
been protected and the redwood forest is reconnected
• Create a more efficient system for managing connected
ecosystems without regard to property boundaries
Hire a Planning and Research Consultant
• Sempervirens Fund will develop a request
for proposals (RFP) to solicit bids from
resources planning firms
• After the selection process the SSC will
deliver:
• professional planning and research
consultants
• consultants that can lead the SSC
through the exploration, needs, and
opportunities for stewardship of the
Great Park Planning Region
Stewardship Selection Committee
Participants will examine the opportunities and challenges that will
present themselves in the future
• Evaluate the efficacy of the current models of stewardship while
anticipating future scenarios
• Create new strategies or systems that respond to anticipated future
conditions
• Promote and enhance the regions ecological values, and deal with the
challenges of climate change
• Challenge participants to think holistically –along the lines of
ecosystems instead of land ownership
Stewardship 5.0 – Activities / Deliverables:
Anticipated Outcomes and Evaluation
• Objective I - Create and convene a Stewardship Steering Committee
(SSC) to hire a top rate planning consultant(s)
• Invite participation agencies, nonprofits and other resource specialist
who have been part of the CAPP steering Committee
• Members of the Peninsula working group
• Select other agencies, organizations, timber companies, farmers,
ranchers and private land owners
Project Objectives
Objective II - Explore how other resource areas similar to the size and
scope of the Redwood CAPP are managed; and begin to understand how
the Santa Cruz Mountains might be stewarded
• The planning consultant will facilitate a series of SSC meetings to
synthesize the information gathered
• The SSC will amalgamate the information gathered from these meetings
to determine possible ways to steward the region
Project Objectives
• Objective III – SSC will adopt a list of governing principles to guide
stewardship planning in the future as well a interim measure that may be
implemented in the short term
• Planning consultant will lead a focused discussion and deliver a
memorandum of agreement (MOA)
• SSC will review and edit the MOA
• Planning consultant’s final report and MOA presenting a collectively
developed vision, guiding principles, interim measure potential funding
strategies, and management structures for stewardship of the Redwoods
CAPP
Success
• We will consider this project a success if through this process the SSC
comes to agreement on the
• Vision
• Guiding Principals
• Interim measures for Stewardship for the region
A gift from the people to the people…
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." --John Muir