Local conservationists have been trying to preserve Banning Ranch for 23 years.
from Newport Beach couple Frank and Joann Randall to go toward purchasing the property and setting it aside for conservation. State agencies, including the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Wildlife Conservation Board, chipped in the rest.
"This is really one for the history books," said Terry Welsh, board president of the Banning Ranch Conservancy. The property stretches along the Santa Ana River between Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, and Newport Beach. It includes vernal pools that are home toThe ranch is also crisscrossed with dirt roads and dotted with oil infrastructure,The property once known as Banning Ranch in Orange County has been renamed Randall Preserve in recognition of the Newport Beach couple that funded the land's acquisition.
Welsh said the next three years will be dedicated to cleaning up the land and removing oil infrastructure. Conservation groups will also start working on a management plan with input from California Native American tribes and the surrounding community.The priorities for the newly acquired land are protecting biodiversity, public access, including a potential future campground, and tribal access to the area, which is part of the ancestral homeland of the Acjachemen and Tongva people.
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