AGENCY TO MANAGE A.V. OPEN SPACE GROUP WILL CONSERVE UNDEVELOPED LAND.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer PALMDALE -- A new governmental agency has been created to take over and manage Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley land set aside to preserve wildlife and open space. The Desert and Mountain Conservation Authority was formed by the state's Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1979 and dedicated to the acquisition of land in the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains and the Simi Hills, north and west of Los Angeles, for preservation as open and the Antelope Valley Resource Conservation District. ``It's a need we're trying to fill. We looked around for the best way to do it,'' said Jim Dodson, a retired Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. official who is board president of the Antelope Valley Resource Conservation District, itself an outgrowth of Depression-era efforts against soil erosion. The authority will hold its inaugural organizing meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Palmdale Holiday Inn, 38630 Fifth St. W. The meeting will include swearing in of board members and establishing operational procedures The detailed methods by which headquarters and units carry out their operational tasks. . The authority will take in land that has been provided by developers or government agencies in exchange for permission to build on desert acreage that is habitat for species such as burrowing owls, Mohave ground squirrels or alkali mariposa lilies. The first land it is expected to take in is on Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r Ridge, the spine of land that runs south of Rancho Vista Boulevard west of 30th Street West. The land is to be donated by developer Andrew Eliopulos, whose Joshua Ranch housing project is under construction there, and will include both an existing trail system as well as other open space, Dodson said. The board members will include Dodson and author and wildflower wildflower Any flowering plant that grows without intentional human aid. Wildflowers are the source of all cultivated garden varieties of flowers. A wildflower growing where it is unwanted is considered a weed. expert Milt Stark, representing the Antelope Valley Resource Conservation District. Representing the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy will be Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, parks, recreation and community services director Rick Gould and Dave Myerson. Dodson said it makes sense for the Antelope Valley Resource Conservation District to join forces with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, which was created by state lawmakers in 1980 to preserve parkland. The Santa Monica conservancy has years of experience in real estate transactions and in setting up long-term management agreements, while the local officials know the Antelope Valley, he said. chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-5742 |
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