Dramatic landscape along the Sonoma Coast will now be set aside and protected from development, according to the San Francisco Chronicle:

By early spring, about 5,630 acres near the mouth of the Russian River could be open to the public, revealing redwood forests, wildflower meadows and flowing streams, home to rare birds and frogs. That coastal prairie, overlooking some of the most photographed views of the Pacific Ocean on the California coast, could have been sold as 38 homesites. But the Sonoma Land Trust and other nonprofit groups, plus government agencies, collaborated to forge the single largest conservation land acquisition in Sonoma County, a $36 million agreement to buy the property, newly named the Jenner Headlands.

Northern Spotted Owls, Burrowing Owls, American Peregrine Falcons, Ospreys and Bank Swallows just a few of bird species one might find in the Jenner Headlands.