Projects

 

The Rickert Ranch Conservation Easement is one of several conservation easements that were established or proposed to protect the Cow Creek Watershed.  The conservation easements fit directly with federal, state, and regional conservation plans and strategies, including the California Department of Fish and Game Cow Creek Conceptual Area Protection Plan (CAPP), the Cow Creek Watershed Assessment, the Resource Protection Strategies and the Agricultural and Open Space Elements of the Shasta County General Plan, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Anadromous Fish Restoration Plan and Habitat Restoration Program, the California Resources Agency Restoring Central Valley Streams: A Plan for Action, and the CALFED Bay-Delta Ecosystem Restoration Program.

 

The mineral rights on portions of the ranch are severed, as the surface owner does not own the mineral rights underlying all of the parcels proposed for the conservation easement.  Based on the evaluation, the surface and subsurface minerals identified on the property are unlikely to be mined, and the likelihood of the economic mineral resource removal at the time of the assessment was so remote as to be negligible.