Audubon Announces Innovative Bill Would Promote Regenerative Ranching in California Published: Thursday, 11 February 2021 05:56
Western Meadowlark Photo: Robert Harwood/Audubon Photography Awards
Audubon-sponsored bill encourages ranching practices that restore grasslands and sequester carbon.
February 11, 2021 - Sacramento, Calif. - California state Sen. John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) on Wednesday, along with a number of Senate and Assembly coauthors, introduced a groundbreaking bill this week that would offer financial incentives from the California Department of Conservation to ranchers and other private landowners to implement grazing practices that restore grassland habitat, soil health and biodiversity on some of California’s most endangered and sensitive landscapes. Senate Bill 322 would establish the California Conservation Ranching Incentive Program as part of the existing California Farmland Conservancy Program to contract with ranchers on lands deemed especially i