will ensure that fire management activities, including vegetation management and fuel load reduction required for compliance with any laws or guidelines are allowed to continue. . There is currently no managed grazing within the planning unit. Identify and manage cultural resources in to ensure their protection. The conservation easement will protect historic and cultural resources (as defined in Title XIV of the California Code of Regulations) on the Property consistent with applicable laws and regulations. Recommendation for Conservation Easement and Fee Simple Retention The Settlement and Stipulation require that the Watershed Lands: (1) be subject to permanent conservation easements and restricting the development of the Watershed Lands so as to protect and preserve the BPVs and/or (2) be donated in fee simple to one or more public entities or qualified nonprofit conservation organizations, whose ownership will ensure the protection of these BPVs. Accordingly, immediately following PG&E’s conveyance of the lands to be donated to Placer County in the Lower Drum planning unit, the County will convey the conservation easement to Placer Land Trust (PLT). Finding of Donee Funding and Other Capacity to Maintain Lands to Preserve and/or Enhance the BPVs The Stewardship Council invited organizations to join its registry and submit a statement of qualifications (SOQs). The Stewardship Council then reviewed the SOQs, and organizations that appeared capable were invited to submit additional information describing their qualifications. Organizations demonstrating sufficient experience holding and enforcing CEs, sufficient financial and organizational capacity, and which the Stewardship Council has determined to be best-suited to receive a donation of CEs within particular Watershed Lands are recommended to PG&E to receive CEs.
will ensure that fire management activities, including vegetation management and fuel load reduction required for compliance with any laws or guidelines are allowed to continue. . There is currently no managed grazing within the planning unit. Identify and manage cultural resources in to ensure their protection. The conservation easement will protect historic and cultural resources (as defined in Title XIV of the California Code of Regulations) on the Property consistent with applicable laws and regulations. Recommendation for Conservation Easement and Fee Simple Retention The Settlement and Stipulation require that the Watershed Lands: (1) be subject to permanent conservation easements and restricting the development of the Watershed Lands so as to protect and preserve the BPVs and/or (2) be donated in fee simple to one or more public entities or qualified nonprofit conservation organizations, whose ownership will ensure the protection of these BPVs. Accordingly, immediately following PG&E’s conveyance of the lands to be donated to Placer County in the Lower Drum planning unit, the County will convey the conservation easement to Placer Land Trust (PLT). Finding of Donee Funding and Other Capacity to Maintain Lands to Preserve and/or Enhance the BPVs The Stewardship Council invited organizations to join its registry and submit a statement of qualifications (SOQs). The Stewardship Council then reviewed the SOQs, and organizations that appeared capable were invited to submit additional information describing their qualifications. Organizations demonstrating sufficient experience holding and enforcing CEs, sufficient financial and organizational capacity, and which the Stewardship Council has determined to be best-suited to receive a donation of CEs within particular Watershed Lands are recommended to PG&E to receive CEs.
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