Working together, these ancient natural landmark woodlands can be protected for future generations to enjoy as much as we do.
El Dorado takes steps to guard oak woodlands
By Cathy Locke - Bee Staff Writer Published 12:00 am PST Saturday, November 11, 2006
A streamlined process for identifying and preserving oak woodlands will be available for some properties under guidelines approved this week by the El Dorado County Planning Commission.
Commissioners and staff members have spent several months refining interim interpretive guidelines to be followed until the county completes an oak woodlands management plan and ordinance.
"I think we've taken it as far as we can at this time," county planner Steve Hust told the commission in reviewing the draft guidelines this week.
The latest revisions, he said, "dramatically reduce the cost to project applicants and the review time."
Protecting historic oak woodlands against encroaching growth is a challenge throughout the Sierra foothills. The oak woodlands are considered environmentally important because they are part of a network of plants and animals dependent on one another.
