Do we need to close a beach to protect the snowy plover? Sign up for Indy Today to receive fresh news from Independent. It will be up to the Coastal Commission to decide what the real numbers are at a meeting slated for early next year. On October 14, the commission will be holding a public workshop to hear what people think. Currently, the ranch is open to members of select schools and organizations, such as the Audubon Society and the Botanic Garden, but such visits are pre-arranged and chaperoned by docents.
Echoing these concerns is Beverly Boise-Cossart, a year resident of the ranch and one of the two ranch residents to serve on the stakeholder committee. She said the committee served as a sounding board for ideas proposed by various state agencies but did not get a chance to address some of the big issues. She noted those numbers are strikingly identical to the numbers first proposed in when public access at the ranch almost happened.
Locklin acknowledged the working group on which Boise-Cossart served did not review the numbers. She said those numbers were based on the planning spadework done by the Coastal Commission back in after the state legislature ordered the commission to hammer out a deal achieving public access at Hollister Ranch in exchange for the new building permits then sought by ranch owners. As public access conditions were imposed, Locklin recounted, ranch owners sued.
These legal skirmishes came to an end after Republican Governor George Deukmejian was elected in and then tried to dismantle the Coastal Commission outright. More supportive of the proposed numbers is Doug Kern, staff executive of the Gaviota Coast Conservancy, who served on the same public-access working group with Boise-Cossart. One of the many issues to be addressed is the total lack of infrastructure or amenities typically needed to accommodate large groups of visitors, bathrooms and trashcans being the most obvious.
Locklin stressed how in the first phase, no bathrooms were being proposed, only porta-potties. In , State Parks, the California Coastal Commission, the Coastal Conservancy, and the State Lands Commission entered into an interagency collaboration agreement to achieve public access to and along the coast at Hollister Ranch. In and , the agencies will work collaboratively and in conjunction with the public to update the Hollister Ranch public access program to finally provide long-delayed public access to this stretch of coastline.
If you would like to be included on the State Coastal Conservancy email list for the public access planning process, please email trish. Below are slides that accompanied a presentation by Joseph Porter and Philip Schlatter at the April Commission meeting. The presentation highlights some of the fabulous survey and drone work our staff performed in late and early The presentations include information about the mean high tide line, drone imagery, and some of the products generated with Drone2Map photogrammetry software.
Staff Report Meeting Webcast. Answers to frequently asked questions about Hollister Ranch can be found below in both English and Spanish. Cossart-Daly, a civil rights and environmental lawyer, was tasked with expanding the Hollister Ranch Managed Access Program, which hosts tide pool trips for schoolchildren and tours for birders, botanists and researchers.
For years the ranch has also invited disabled veterans and other special-needs groups to visit an uncrowded beach, she said. Under the proposed expansion, the program would serve up to about people a year. The tide pool trip would be offered at least 24 times a year for at least 20 students. How do we create meaningful opportunities for these underrepresented groups? She sees them out in the pastures every morning on her way to work — "totally weathered, total bosses!
Cossart-Daly had left Hollister for a while — finishing school, experiencing a world with stable cell service. But she brought her now husband back to the ranch, where they found a home to rent. On the way to giving birth to their first child, she had stopped on this beach, marveled at the uncrowded horizon, and envisioned sharing this world with her daughter. Back through the canyon, back up the steep roads with ocean cliff views, she drove past the guard and made the trek into town.
These gates — the closest most members of the public have gotten to Hollister Ranch — would be open for her when she returned. Rosanna Xia is an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She covers the coast and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in for explanatory reporting.
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Can having both access and preservation, some wonder, be possible at a place like Hollister? View of Cuarta Canyon in Hollister Ranch. Beverly Boise-Cossart, left, talks with Kathi Carlson, one of the leading cowgirls for all the cattle on Hollister Ranch. Signs warn of possible trespassing on Hollister Ranch Road. The gatehouse with guard. Rosanna Xia. Follow Us twitter instagram email facebook.
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