Chaparral Hill (Yuba County) Habitat conservation easement 10 acres Start date:  March 1995

In March 1995 the Land Trust secured its second wildlife habitat conservation easement.   The site is just over the border in Yuba County.  The donors wish to remain anonymous, but their beautiful 10-acre gift helps form an important link to help keep important high-country migratory deer trails open. When heavy winter snows cover deer forage, the herds migrate to lower elevations in search of food.  As more large tracts of land are developed and fenced, many of these routes are cut off.

Fish and Game biologist for Yuba and Sutter counties, Dale Whitmore, helped prepare the supporting wildlife reports needed to secure this conservation easement.  The easement will also help protect an historic location - the site of an old stagecoach stop.   The property is adjacent to a land-locked Bureau of Land Management parcel.

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