Point Reyes Light
September 26, 2018
Others have shown wholehearted support for the bill, including the county Board of Supervisors, the Marin Conservation League, the Marin County Farm Bureau and the Marin Agricultural Land Trust.
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Marin Independent Journal
September 21, 2018
“With its rich agricultural history and diverse natural resources, MALT is extraordinarily proud to protect Millerton Creek Ranch,” MALT Executive Director Jamison Watts said. “This 864-acre ranch joins a 10,433-acre block of MALT-protected farmland on the east shore of Tomales Bay, safeguarding critical habitat and ensuring this land will be used for agriculture forever.”
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Coyuchi Blog
September 11, 2018
MALT promotes more sustainable practices and looking ahead to create more resilient family farms while protecting that land from further urban sprawl and development. The landowners are the real stewards that can have an impact; MALT offers guidance in many different capacities to our landowners; features Jim Jensen, a sixth-generation farmer and MALT’s Stewardship Project…
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E&E News
September 5, 2018
“We recognize that in many regions of the country, environmental conservation and farming are at odds, but here in Marin County they go hand in hand,” said Jamison Watts of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust. “In particular, managed coastal agricultural lands are critical to the region’s environmental stability.”
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NBC Bay Area
August 5, 2018
See how MALT helps preserve farms and meet a farming family that continues its cherished way of life and provides us delicious products we can all enjoy, highlights interview with executive director Jamison Watts.
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Marin Independent Journal
May 25, 2018
Announcement of MALT’s Farmland Forever Campaign goals; an overview of MALT’s mission and explanation of easements; highlights benefits to agriculture, climate, wildlife and natural resources; includes quotes from executive director Jamison Watts and Millerton Creek Ranch chicken farmer Morgan Giammona.
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Edible Marin & Wine Country
May 23, 2018
Women’s work at kitchen tables has always been more than making meals. As a child, sitting at or under many a kitchen table, I observed the power in the way that women listened, formed relationships, built community and solved problems. It was at one such kitchen table, the one belonging to Ellen and Bill Straus…
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San Francisco Chronicle
May 8, 2018
“The Greenbelt Alliance estimates that 217,000 acres of agricultural land in the greater Bay Area have been lost to development in the past three decades. The Marin Agricultural Land Trust is one local organization that tries to counter that development by creating easements that have preserved more than 51,000 acres of county land [sic] for…
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Point Reyes Light
March 22, 2018
An easement on the J. McIsaac Ranch allowed the family who has been leasing the ranch for 137 years to purchase the 527 acres, while protecting it from multi-estate development.
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Marin Independent Journal
March 17, 2018
MALT reaches 50,000-acre milestone of protected agricultural land in Marin with the acquisition of an easement over Furlong Ranch in Marshall.
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