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IN THE NEWS · U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service November 1, 2011-Interim Habitat Conservation Plan Approved For Landowners in Santa Cruz County, California · Santa Cruz Sentinel November 1, 2011-OK may ease building permit process in Zayante Sandhills · Santa Cruz Sentinel August 24, 2011-Nature Connection: Only in Santa Cruz · SV Press Banner August 12, 2011-City streamlines sand hills building permits · Santa Cruz Sentinel August 4, 2011-Scotts Valley approves Sandhills plan · Santa Cruz Sentinel August 2, 2011-Scotts Valley to discuss adopting plan to allow homeowners to build on sensitive habitat · Santa Cruz Sentinel July 30, 2011-County's Sandhills plan could make additions easier for thousands · The Federal Register March 30, 2011-Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 61 · SCAOR® March,2009-Another Local Real Property Issue The Zayante Sandhills Conservation Bank · The Valley Post February 12, 2008-Environmentalists and Property Owners Both Win in Zayante Sandhills Deal · Santa Cruz Sentinel January 16, 2008-Sandhills conservation bank gets county approval · Santa Cruz Sentinel Novenber 11, 2007-Swath of rare sandhills slated for protection · Santa Cruz Sentinel June 23, 2006-'Grand Opening' of conservation banking system · The Valley Post June 8, 2006-Proposed for Protected Habitat in SLV Gets Initial Federal Approval · Santa Cruz Sentinel May 18, 2006-A new way to protect the sandhills

The Zayante Sandhills Conservation Bank (ZSCB) is dedicated to preserving, enhancing and restoring key parcels of sandhill habitat in Santa Cruz County. ZSCB offers a creative, habitat-based solution to preservation and recovery of rare and endangered sandhill species in the region. By focusing on large, contiguous areas of high quality habitat, ZSCB offers marked biological advantages to piecemeal regulation of fragmented and/or partially developed sites. ZSCB also facilitates a more coherent, straightforward regulatory framework for those property owners who are seeking compliance with state and federal laws pertaining to endangered species. The Goals of the Conservation Bank are: To protect and enhance native biological diversity To carry out rigorous quantitative sampling protocols for rare and endangered species To implement management, restoration and enhancement projects to increase the abundance and distribution of rare, endangered and other special status plant taxa To increase populations of two endangered animal species and to assist in overall recovery of these species To maintain key conservation parcels in perpetuity Property Owner Information “How To” - Permitted Projects Do You Live In The Sandhills? Steps needed to complete a project? Conservation Bank Information Status Update Overview - pdf file Executive Summary - pdf file   More than 1,800 species worldwide are now listed as threatened and endangered, and thousands more could face extinction unless they are protected. 110 Success Stories for Endangered Species Day 2012

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