Mariposa County is seeking proposals from qualified planning and design teams to produce the County's Agricultural and Working Landscape Conservation Plan (AWLCP). Creation of this plan is key to the implementation of specific General Plan tasks, while reinforcing established County policies for the protection and longevity of the County's long-cherished agricultural lands and achieving the State's Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction and climate goals. The AWLCP will result in a quantified analysis of the GHG benefits of the County's Agricultural and Working Landscapes, long range conservation strategies, educational programming, and potential economic opportunities that are based on rancher, community, and other key stakeholder participation. The AWLCP is funded by the Department of Conservation's Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation (SALC) program. The purpose of SALC is fight climate change by protecting California's farmlands from development. This planning effort will use extensive stakeholder engagement and community outreach to establish a coordinated and collaborative AWLCP for the purpose of enhancing existing County agricultural best practices, identifying funding sources and market support for agricultural business owners, and acquiring additional resources to support the community's environmental conservation vision. This includes investments in both environmental resources and agri-business owners alike. When appropriate, this planning and design effort will consider opportunities for collaboration with related ongoing community planning efforts, including the Mariposa County TerraCount Program, Mariposa County General Plan, Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), and the Recreation and Resiliency Master Plan. Additional information related to these and other Mariposa County projects and supporting information can be viewed and downloaded from the County's website. Stakeholder engagement efforts will seek to empower voices from throughout our geographically disparate rural county, with a particular emphasis on soliciting input from disadvantaged community members who are often marginalized by conventional community planning processes. It is likely that the community dialogues described elsewhere in this Request for Proposals will require innovation and creative thinking to have the desired impact. The method of contractor selection has not been determined at this time.
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