SoCal Habitat and Open Space - SCAG responsibilities

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SCAG has as one of its principles the promotion of market-based solutions to protecting our natural habitat, open space, and ecologically important lands and waters in the region.

It promotes the concept of conservation easements that have successfully protcted wildlife hatibat and open space and generates significant public benefits.

Conservation easements are voluntary, legally binding agreements that limit certain types of uses or development from taking place on property while protecting the property's ecological or open-space values.

SCAG needs: to create market-based, incentive approaches to habitat management at the urban-rural interface, such as easement rights acquisition.