Marin County supervisors will consider allowing the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) to purchase the 723-acre McDowell Ranch located east of Tomales.
Funds to purchase the property through MALT would come from Measure A, a 2012 sales tax approved by voters. Marin County Parks officials said 20 percent of the money generated from the tax is mandated to go to county farmland that is at risk of being developed.
McDowell Ranch is primarily managed as an organic grass-fed beef operation, but the entire parcel also contains “essential habitat,” according to the parks department; 66 percent of it is classified as essential habitat by the Bay Area Conservation Lands Network. It also contains the Stemple Creek watershed, which is the main tributary of Estero de San Antonio, considered by the California Department of Fish and Game as “one of the most significant habitats in the state,” according to the parks department.
If approved by the Board of Supervisors, $1.8 million from Measure A funds will go to the land trust in order to purchase the property. If recent protections are any indication, the supervisors will approve the money for MALT, which the parks department is recommending. In mid-June, another land trust in Marin County – the Trust for Public Land – entered into an agreement with the owners of Tiburon’s Easton Point, a gorgeous 110-acre property with sweeping views of San Pablo and San Francisco bays.
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