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San Diego/Riverside Opportunities:

1. 206-acre proposed CDFG conservation bank near Crest in the PAMA, additional acreage available

2. 39-acre wetlands on a tributary of the San Luis Rey

3. 140-acre wetlands with upland, restoration potential in North SD County, Santa Margarita Watershed

4. 83-acres wetlands restoration in the SLR

What can we do now? Thinking about land use

The Journal-Standard
Posted May 28, 2010 @ 06:10 PM
Freeport, Ill. —
Rearranging furniture at home or at the office is commonplace. Frequently we change whole spaces in the buildings we use by adding or removing walls. We can restore old buildings until they are better than new.

“Remodeling” land that has been developed is much more difficult than remodeling a building. Once the prairie has been cleared of trees and plowed for cropland, natural areas and/or wetlands covered by expanses of buildings, roads, and parking lots, and large areas planted to turf grass, these changes tend to be permanent. It just seems like a smart thing to do to consider the consequences of how we use the land before we make changes in land use.