PCCP = Placer County Conservation Plan. This is a good idea on paper – Liberal Republican Supervisor Robert Weygandt has spent the better part of the last four years on this thing.

Why is there a need for such a plan? Because the extreme enviros have gotten bills past that require one acre to be frozen out for every acre developed. Remember that over 50% of California’s land is owned by governments – actually it is like 60%. National Parks / Forests / State Parks / Preserves etc etc etc…

Weygandt put this plan together as a way to preemptively take care of a lot of the eco-nazi restrictions against development. I get it…

What I don’t get is that the 1040 parcels Bruce is sounding the alarm about and many more in the other supervisor districts would be encumbered by the plan. Then, they would be managed by the Placer Land Trust.

CONNECTIONS TO MONTGOMERY CAMP?

Have a look at their list of advisory members and then compare them to Montgomery’s endorsement list. LINK Notice how our favorite “Republican” Joanne Neft is on the list amongst others.

A look at the list of Board Members shows none other than Doug Houston, Bob Houston’s son. Doug was terminated from a contract by Bruce Kranz due to ethical conflicts. LINK

This just does not look good…

LAND MANAGEMENT?

Are you kidding me? How many of you saw the news about the Gladding Fire?

The dirty little secret is that it started on Land ‘managed’ by the Placer Land Trust. The problem with the placer land trust is summed up by an angry resident:

...I’ll just repeat the concern that I and others have about the increasingly ‘unmanaged’ land in the county.

The fire north of Lincoln started on the old Hofman land that Westpark gave up as mitigation for its development in west Roseville. As I understand it, the land is “managed” by the Placer Land Trust. I believe they refer to it as the Doty Preserve.

If you look around the county at land grazed by the owners – people trying to live off the land – the fuel load is negligible. A legitimate argument can be made for saving some feed for fall before the grass comes in. In the case of the ‘Doty Preserve’ the vegetation is heavily made up of tar weed and Medusa head – very unpalatable under the best of circumstances, but with hungry enough cattle and enough rain on it – some might get eaten. IF a rancher wanted to save feed for the fall, that feed would have a value that he would want to protect. A person protecting his assets would disc, or at least mow, a fire break around the land – - – especially if it fronted Gladding Rd. where cigarette fires are common. Earlier this summer there was a small fire just a few hundred feet north of the recent burn. If you don’t owe it to yourself, you owe it to your neighbors.

Instead of acting like a reasonable and prudent person who lived on the land, or even a good neighbor, the Placer Land Trust has focused on putting in expensive metal fence posts and signs… The houses and outbuildings and riparian areas on both appear to have been totally destroyed, along with some neighbors.

My hat is off to CalFire for containing as well as they did the wall of flame that must have come off of those properties.

We need to do something to ensure that the ever increasing acreage of “habitat” land does not become a threat to those of us who live in the rural areas. The environmental community likes the word “working landscape.” Landscapes that are being worked, in my humble opinion, seem to have less of a fuel load threatening the neighbors.

Again – the Placer Land Trust would be in charge of managing that land given up to the PCCP. They seem to be following the same pattern that precipitated the horrendous wildfires that ripped California.

The “hands off” policy of the Eco-Left has come right home to Placer County. These are the folks lining up behind Jennifer Montgomery. People lost their homes needlessly because of their decision to do nothing in the name of environmental protection.

My Message to the Placer Land Trust – get out of the business of politics and start clearing that land. Then and maybe then will people start to coalesce behind the PCCP.

POINT OF CLARIFICATION – The land the Placer Land Trust gets would still be owned by the people giving it up. The problem is that it would be encumbered and un-developable making it worthless.