by Steven Day
On January 13, 2011 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released Elkhorn Ridge (Mendocino County, California) from “Potential Wilderness” status into actual Congressional Wilderness designation. Good news–conservation management is now connected from Red Mountain and Little Red Mountain through Elkhorn Ridge, Brush Mountain, Cahto Peak, the Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Redwood Forest Foundation’s Usal Forest and into the Mattole. Congratulations came to me from the conservation community, but I’d like to tell you about more of the people who made this happen over a long period of time. There were many twists and turns along the way, which lead me to start up LEGACY-The Landscape Connection, a conservation Geographic Information System (GIS) organization.

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