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Clinic Project Proposal: Mt Hamilton, CA

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The Mt. Hamilton Project stretches eastward from the forested ridges of the Santa Cruz Mountains, across the Santa Clara Valley to the oak woodlands and associated uplands of the central Diablo Range. Straddling six counties and 1.2 million acres, The Nature Conservancy's Mount Hamilton Project supports a wide variety of natural communities that have graced Central California for centuries. But this last significant expanse of wilderness between Silicon Valley and the Central Valley is feeling the pinch of the region's growing population. New housing developments creep toward the project's outer rims every year, and proposed infrastructure projects for rail lines, freeways and water projects threaten to carve the expansive wilderness into pieces. In addition, a majority of the global climate models predict the project area will be drier and significantly hotter than the conditions of the 20th century. These combined threats provide ample incentive for immediate conservation action.

CREATION DATE April 13, 2009
LAST MODIFIED April 13, 2009
CREATED BY Kristin Richards Betz
KEYWORDS Mt Hamilton, CA; Climate Clinic; project proposal; Grasslands and Drylands
DOCUMENT PURPOSE Site Profiles
PUBLICATION YEAR No Publication Year
LICENSE Attribution Non-Commercial Attribution Non-commercial
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