The Greenspace Insider

Volume 1, Number 1 July, 2001

Welcome!

For a long time the Board of Directors and staff at Greenspace have wanted to do something special for our members and supporters. Our newsletter The Watershed The Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA) is full of information about events, grants and activities we Would you like to see $350 million in conservation are involved in and is sent to the community at large. We are very proud of the newsletter and hope that you enjoy funding come to California from the Federal government with no new taxes? It isnt as outrageous as it receiving it quarterly. sounds. Legislation is currently being considered that However, knowing our constiuency, we felt that you would would take revenues collected from a portion of the be interested in more in-depth information about conserva- nearly $4.5 billion that private companies pay to extion issues that affect our lives here on the North Coast of ploit the nations non-renewable oil and gas resources San Luis Obispo County. To this end, we are instituting this and reinmonthly news alert that will take just a few subjects at a vest these time and look at them in more detail. This publication will funds in the protecbe sent exclusively to our members and supporters. We want to serve the needs of our membership, so if tion and you have any questions about environmental issues, we restoration would be glad to try to answer them in this news alert. Just of renewsend your questions to the Greenspace office, or give us a able natural recall, and we will be happy to attempt to answer your quessources tion in a future issue. such as We Need Your Help our wildlife, public lands and coasts. For the first issue, we want to alert you to a bill that is This guaranteed long-term funding for conservation being considered by the 107th Congress. In May I was is on the legislative agenda in the 107th Congress. H.R. called to Washington DC by the Na701, CARA, is an historic conservation proposal that would automatically invest revenues from oil and gas tional Wildlife Federation to assist in lobleases on the Outer Continental Shelf into an assortbying for The Conservation and Reinment of local, state, and federal conservation programs. vestment Act (CARA). While there, I H.R. 701 provides a tremendous infusion of reliable met with Representative Lois Capps (a funding - over $3 billion annually until 2015 - to protect co-sponsor of the bill), Senator Barbara our valuable natural and cultural resources, and to imBoxer and a member of Senator Dianne prove the quality of life for future generations. Feinsteins staff and encouraged them CARA funding would be distributed to many importo support this bill. tant conservation programs. The funding for Coastal It is our hope that after reading about this bill, you will also Conservation would receive the largest percentage of contact your representatives in Washington to support this funds for a total of $1 billion per year to the coastal important legislation that will benefit coastal conservation states for coastal and marine conservation efforts. What You Can Do efforts. A diverse and powerful array of interests including Additionally, please let us know if you have any quesconservationists, historic preservationists, businesses, tions that you would like to be answered in these pages.

How To Create a Conservation Legacy

Richard Hawley Executive Director

sportsmen and others have united in their support of this bill. Please join them by contacting your representatives in Washington and urging them to support HR 107 - CARA.

How much free service does your Monterey pine give you?
According to a study* done in 1989 (and adjusted for todays dollars), one 50 year old Monterey pine tree is worth approximately $370.00 per year! That figure does not even take into account the pleasure these trees give us . Benefit Value Per Year Controlling air pollution $68.00 Controlling erosion and storm water $102.00 Air Conditioning $99.00 Wildlife shelter $101.00 This means that one Monterey pine is providing over $20,000 worth of services to you and me in its lifetime free of charge.

Did You Know. . . .?

Each gallon of gasoline burned produces 19.6 pounds of CO2. Planting trees could offset 20 percent of CO2 produced in the United States. In just 25 years more than 60 percent of heavy tree cover has been lost in the Atlanta region and city temperatures are 6 to 10 degrees hotter in areas without trees. The protection of the 16.0 acres of Monterey pine forest in Strawberry Canyon facilitates an approximate *(The Values of Trees by Sara Ebenreck) uptake of from 26 - 35 metric tons of CO2 annually.

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