Winter 2009
Cloverdale Restoration Receives Stimulus Funds
Cloverdale Coastal Ranches
- A four-part restoration plan at POST’s Cloverdale
Coastal Ranches in Pescadero is the only project
selected by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
to receive stimulus funding from their Sacramento
office. Staff announced the $55,000 grant in April 2009.
- “The grant is a tremendous boost to work begun
when POST acquired the property in 1997,” said Jeff Powers, project manager for Cloverdale. “At
5,777 acres, the ranch has tremendous stewardship
needs, more so because management practices of the
distant past left much of the land in poor condition.
Using a combination of volunteer and contract labor,
POST has worked hard to improve the land’s scenic
and habitat value.”
- The grant provides for additional
restoration and repair of two small ponds,
both of which provide habitat for threatened
California red-legged frogs and
endangered San Francisco garter snakes.
In addition the grant covers a prescribed
burn on 320 acres in an effort to enhance
grasslands around the ponds, which also
affect the viability of these species.
- The grant also covers continued
removal of non-native, invasive Pampas
and Jubata grass on approximately
2,500 acres as well as removal of nonnative,
invasive Canary Island hypericum
from 550 acres.
POST Acquires 21-Acre Property in Half Moon Bay . . .
