California: Land saved next to Sacatar Trail & in Domeland wilderness

The Wilderness Land Trust says it has acquired 2,635 acres in Tulare
County’s southern Sierra Nevada to preserve as wilderness. The trust
has purchased a 200-acre tract in the Domeland Wilderness and a
2,435-acre property adjacent to the Sacatar Trail Wilderness. Both
parcels are in Tulare County east of the Sierra crest and will be
conveyed to the Bureau of Land Management to be administered as
wilderness. The 200-acre property in the BLM Domeland Wilderness
Addition is situated along a major tributary to the South Fork Kern
River. It’s within a quarter-mile of the Pacific Crest Trail and
supports riparian habitat and pinyon-juniper woodlands that are
surrounded by rugged granitic peaks. The 2,435-acre property adjacent
to the Sacatar Trail Wilderness includes expansive wet meadows
straddled by pinyon-juniper woodlands and an isolated stand of Joshua
trees that occur at an elevation just over 7,000 feet.

Both parcels
have archeological resources, numerous springs and opportunities for
hiking into the rugged backcountry. “We are delighted that the
Wilderness Land Trust could step in and work with willing sellers to
protect these important wilderness properties,” says Trust President
Reid Haughey. “We have the opportunity to decommission several miles
of roads and remove fences and other wilderness intrusions that will
restore the lands to their natural state.” Founded in 1993, the
Wilderness Land Trust describes itself as “a non-profit, publicly
supported charity that works to purchase private lands (inholdings)
within wilderness. All of the lands acquired by the Trust are
transferred to public ownership through voluntary mechanisms that
respect landowner property rights and values. The Trust has protected
nearly 30,000 acres in over 60 different wilderness areas across
California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Colorado.”
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=10902

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