| Publisher | The Nature Conservancy |
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| Total Pages | 26 pages |
| Article Link | https://www.scienceforconservation.org/products/strategic-land-retirement |
| PDF Link | https://www.scienceforconservation.org/assets/downloads/SLR-Habitat_-2017-lo.pdf |
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| Publication Date | December 2017 |
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| Abstract | California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) established a framework for sustainable, local groundwater management. SGMA requires groundwater-dependent regions to halt overdraft and bring basins into balanced levels of pumping and recharge. As a result, agricultural land retirement is on the rise in the San Joaquin Valley, California’s largest agricultural region and home to the state's highest concentration of threatened and endangered species. In this assessment, The Nature Conservancy introduces the concept of strategic land retirement and restoration, an approach which seeks to help recover San Joaquin Valley threatened and endangered species by restoring agricultural land that is suitable as habitat and under threat of retirement. The authors identify 2.5 million acres of current agricultural lands that have high potential for restoration, 14% of which was fallowed at least once during the most recent drought. |
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