Third District Supervisor and Chair of San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Dawn Rowe will be hosting her monthly open house tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. Rowe will be joined at this event by her own staff as well as representatives from the Mojave Desert Land Trust.
Rowe was the guest on Z107.7’s Up Close Show recently, where she spoke about how the county collaborates with the Mojave Desert Land Trust on species mitigation efforts, saying that the mitigation efforts are a way to offset the impact of development on protected or endangered species
Dawn Rowe: So if you’re going to purchase one acre of land, and the offset is a half acre, that developer has to buy a half acre somewhere else and dedicate it in perpetuity to conservation efforts.
Rowe described the county’s relationship with the Mojave Desert Land Trust:
Dawn Rowe: “They have a specific mission which is acquiring lands that is sometime sympatico with the county and sometimes challenging for the county. We have species that we have to mitigate when we have development projects that move forward, so if the county ever wanted to do a multi-species habitat conservation plan, that would allow pathways for development by mitigating the impact to certain species, it’s hard for the county to consider this as an option in certain areas because there isn’t land available for the county to acquire for mitigation. This is something that the land trust could work with the county on, because they are specifically buying land for mitigation.”
Rowe will be holding an open house with representatives from the Mojave Desert Land Trust tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 p.m. at the Joshua Tree Community Center, located at 6171 Sunburst St in Joshua Tree.
You can hear the full interview with Supervisor Rowe by listening to the Up Close Show as a podcast.
