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Restoration benefits local wildlife and local people. The Land Conservancy's restoration efforts support healthy wildlife, but they also improve water quality, sustain our local water supply, and protect man-made infrastructure and farm fields.
Often times protecting land from development pressure is not enough. Human activities can cause damage to valuable natural resources. As part of what we call "Complete Land Conservation" The Land Conservancy works to restore the ecological health and function of lands that have been damaged. Our restoration program addresses challenges both on the land that we own and on privately owned lands with interested landowners.
Program Focus
The Land Conservancy's restoration programs are focused on streams, wetlands, coastal dunes, and a historic landmark. Stream restoration efforts are aimed at improving water quality, reducing weed threats, and improving functional habitat for steelhead trout. Main objectives to restoring and creating wetlands include improving critical habitat for sensitive plants and animals and protecting water quality. Our work in the coastal dunes centers on protecting native flora and fauna - especially the many threatened and endangered plant species - by removing invasive plants and fostering natural dune cycles to continue.
Our restoration work has also extended to one of our most unique restoration efforts -the historic Octagon Barn. Built in the late 1890's the Barn was threatened with collapse in the 1990's. The Land Conservancy stepped in and worked to save this historic San Luis Obispo icon.
Restoration Achievements
The Land Conservancy Restoration Program has planted more than 60,000 native trees & shrubs, repaired 5 miles of stream banks, removed 11 barriers to fish passage, restored a wetland complex, removed invasive species from hundreds of acres in the Dunes, and restored the 100 year old Octagon Barn.
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