A new policy at the State of California’s Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) will require an independent review of conservation acquisitions higher than $5 million or 5,000 acres.  The policy aims at increased oversight and transparency of the hundreds of millions of dollars in voter approved bond funds that the WCB manages and allocates.  The Sacramento Bee reports, “The board has spent more than $1.2 billion in the past 12 years securing more than 460,000 acres of land for conservation purposes in California.”