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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Saving Land Magazine (Land Trust Alliance)
March 6, 2018
The accredited Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) in California helped launch the Marin Carbon Project (MCP) to see whether improved agricultural management practices, such as managed grazing and spreading compost on rangeland, could help soil take up more atmospheric CO2.
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KQED
March 2, 2018
Coverage of the consolidation and transfer of a 1,000-acre easement on Luiz Ranch in Gallinas Valley to MALT from the Marin County Open Space District (MCOSD), a process that began with a series of donations of easements to MCOSD from landowners James and Francesca Hetfield.
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CBS SF Bay Area, KPIX
February 28, 2018
Coverage of the consolidation and transfer of a 1,000-acre easement on Luiz Ranch in Gallinas Valley to MALT from the Marin County Open Space District (MCOSD), a process that began with a series of donations of easements to MCOSD from landowners James and Francesca Hetfield.
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San Francisco Chronicle
February 18, 2018
The new Santa Clara Valley Ag Plan, crediting MALT as a model, seeks to protect the agricultural heritage of Silicon Valley from development.
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Marin Independent Journal
January 25, 2018
Marin Agricultural Land Trust will protect the Taylor Ranch, formerly known as Bianchini Ranch, in Point Reyes Station, a 705-acre ranch overlooking Tomales Bay that is home to Bivalve Dairy.
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Marin Independent Journal
December 14, 2017
Article about the planned Furlong Ranch easement. Mentions each past Measure A easement by name. Measure A and MALT contributions are put into simple terms. Establishes urgency in rising land values and landowner succession issues. Jamison Watts and Jeff Stump are quoted.
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