Project Objectives
The Project’s objectives are:
- Create an integrated land use plan for the entire Property, and reduce resource fragmentation by reducing the number of parcels.
- Rehabilitate and protect the timber resource.
- Plant vineyards on limited and specific pockets of land with superb agricultural potential, to provide a satisfactory return on investment.
- Set aside a portion of the profits of the Project to fund public benefits.
- Provide economic benefits to Sonoma County, including increased tax revenues and local employment.
The forest we seek to establish; large, uneven aged, widely spaced conifers.
Project objectives fit together and are interdependent from an environmental, planning and economic standpoint. Vineyards are the principal “economic engine” of the entire Project - the value gained from planting high quality vineyards finances both the restoration of timber with its resource and fish and wildlife benefits, as well as the creation of long-term timber and habitat preservation and protection measures.
Regional Setting
