In its Autumn 2008 issue, Living Bird Magazine highlights the recent Tejon Ranch Conservation Agreement in a long article discussing both the conservation agreement and the biological aspects of the landscape itself. The online version of the article also features a great multimedia package including photos and video.Audubon California joined five other environmental groups in May of 2008 to announce the unprecedented agreement with the Tejon Ranch Company to protect up to 240,000 contiguous acres of spectacular and ecologically significant California wildlands. The agreement will protect approximately 90 percent of Tejon’s rich natural habitat from development and open new opportunities for Californians to enjoy this tremendous landscape firsthand.

“If you look at a map of California, you can see just how big a victory this is for Californians,” said Graham Chisholm, conservation director for Audubon California, at the time of announcement. “The protected area is immense – 375 square miles – and the only place in North America where four distinct ecoregions meet on one property.”

Tejon Ranch encompasses more of California’s natural beauty and diversity than any undeveloped area of the state. Located at the junction of the Mojave Desert and the Sierra Nevada, central and coastal mountains, the enormous parcel is home to precious native grasslands, oak woodlands, Joshua tree woodlands and conifer forests. It is home to the endangered California Condor and more than two dozen state and federally listed plant and animal species.

Learn more about the agreement here.