Peninsula Open Space Trust

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

Feb 11, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$131,522,180

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Post currently holds 30,098 acreas in fee or under easement. The organization has an established stewardship program for the lands it owns that includes resource conservation planning and management, along with active uses of land for conservation grazing and agriculture where appropriate. Post works to protect and manage lands in its possession through site specific stewardship plans for the natural resources on each property. Post staff and volunters actively monitor the acreage on which post holds easements or restrictions. Volunteers also assist with stewardship projects on post owned land. In total, post volunteers contributed an impressive 3,847 hours of work time in the past fiscal year. Post also continues to play a leadership role as part of a working group of organizations and agencies addressing the threat posed by hypericum canariense, a highly damaging and aggressive invasive exotic plant that is spreading along the san mateo coast. Post continues to hold and manage the 5,777 acre cloverdale coastal ranches. Post acquired this land complex in 1997. At the time, the property totaled 6,743 acres; over the years, post has transferred portions of the property subject to conservation easement to other owners. A resident ranch manager is on site to manage erosion control, coordinate fuels reduction projects, perform habitat restoration activities, manage non-native plant species removal projects, and operate a public trail. In the past fiscal year, post continues to work to eliminate the invasive exotic weed hypericum canariense from the property, control pampas grass and improve critical pond and wetland habitat for threatened and endangered species on the land, including the california red-legged frog and the san francisco garter snake. In fiscal year 2012, post also continued its efforts to control erosion prone areas on the property. Post also continues to conduct similar resource protection and restoration projects on its other fee lands.

Activity 3

To further its community outreach and education efforts, in fiscal year 2012 the organization hosted four speakers as part of its 19th annual wallace stegner lecture series, which is open to the public. This year's series featured four speakers: author and sustainable farmer joel salatin, ethnobotanist and author wade davis, science journalist and author elizabeth kolbert, and wildlife photographer frans lanting. Post also developed and mailed three issues of its donor newsletter, "landscapes," to approximately 8,000 families and other interested people. The newsletter reported on post's land conservation work throughout the year, including acquisitions of land and conservation easements as well as property transfers and land stewardship projects (as reported above). Post also continued its participation in the california council of land trusts, an association of land conservancies throughout california and the bay area open space council, an association of land conservation organizations throughout the san francisco bay area region.

Filer

EIN

94-2392007