PACIFIC COAST CONSERVATION ALLIANCE

Conservation Easement Program: Our goal is to provide valuable education to perspective land owners and in a program of mutual benefit, help set aside land in perpetuity that limits development while protecting (and helping continue) existing land use while also providing tax relief to an often cash-poor segment to an agrarian landscape.

Bats, Sustainable Agriculture, and Human Health Program: We aim to be the primary bat education organization on California's Central Coast. We hope to further the acceptance of bats as a beneficial component of sustainable agriculture (through conservation of habitats, incorporating bat habitat into agricultural planning) while also providing the general public with information about the importance & value of bats while dispelling the many myths about their "darker" side).

Prairie Falcon Trust: Our goal is to combine education with breeding site land acquisition to enhance the Prairie Falcon survivorship in southern California deserts.

Conservation Easement Program: Our Web site (https://the-pcca.org) is information rich regarding conservation easements and the conservation easement process. We attempt to have in-person contact every inquiry. We also make presentations, at no cost, to local agricultural groups and organizations (e.g., our local, 600-member sustainable agriculture organization, The Vineyard Team).

Bats, Sustainable Agriculture, and Human Health Program: In addition to periodic classes and seasonal events, we use local media (esp. radio & electronic media) to advertise our programs. We twice annually teach community ed classes at our local community college and we are hoping that our Bats & Art competition will bring publicity and interest to bat conservation. We hold semi-monthly "Bat Cafes" for the public and scientists to gather and discuss all things bats

Prairie Falcon Trust: This program will require a combination of an old-fashioned grass roots (public education) effort and land acquisition

1. Our Executive Director has more than 25 years experience in conservation easement establishment & management.

2. Our real estate specialists have been ranked in the top 100 ag-land realtors in the country.

3. The Director of our bat study has a degree in science education, 30+ years of bat-related field work, and 20 years teaching science and science curriculum development in the U. S. and in Central America at the secondary and post-secondary school levels.

4. Our Prairie Falcon Trust has in one month assembled an interest group made up of public, private, and non-profit organizations, which meets semi-monthly.

1. We have helped establish conservation easements on four ranches, totaling more than 600 acres of protected grazing and farm lands.

2. Through our bat education program, we annually host 50 primary school students in bat box building classes. We also, twice annually, present classes through local public libraries, "a "Bats of the Central Coast" program with an after-call bat walk. Class size typically numbers 40 with a make-up of "all ages" (e.g., our most recent included participants ranging in age from 4 to 78 years of age).

3. Although only in its first month of operation, our Prairie Falcon Trust has engaged four land use groups; three public agencies (BLM, US-FWS, and CA-DFW); and several non-profit groups (including both a local and the statewide Audubon Society entities) to begin a cooperative process of purchasing or otherwise protecting Prairie Falcon nest sites in the Antelope and Imperial valleys of southern California.