What is the Partnership for Land Conservation and Stewardship?
The Alameda County Partnership for Land Conservation and Stewardship (PLCS) is a facilitation program intended to bring together landowners interested in selling easements and offering resource enhancement projects on their property with funding sources interested in buying those easements or in constructing the enhancements. Rather than develop a new land trust, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors elected to develop a facilitating entity that would work cooperatively with landowners, conservation organizations, and others to coordinate protection of the County’s natural resources. PLCS works to educate landowners about conservation and mitigation easements, while it brings together the landowners, mitigating entities, and easement holding entities to complete a mitigation transaction on private lands. PLCS, in its second year, has begun establishing mitigation easements among willing sellers and mitigation entities. For questions and more information on PLCS please contact Leslie
