The 270,750-acre Tejon Ranch is the largest contiguous tract of privately owned land in California. In addition to its outstanding core biological resource values, the Ranch represents a biogeographic crossroads of many Californias—the Sierra Nevada, the PacificCoast, the Mojave Desert, and the Great Central Valley. It represents the last intact connection among these ecoregions for numerous plants and animals that cannot cross water, intensive agriculture, or urban development. Unfortunately, it is also currently subject to development proposals that threaten to destroy the ecological integrity of this remarkable legacy.

Given the size, integrity, and geographic context of Tejon Ranch, and the regional significance of its resources, virtually all of Tejon Ranch merits protection for future generations.Therefore, we strongly urge a regional conservation solution for Tejon Ranch that is worthy of its irreplaceable resource values, cultural significance, and heritage of the citizens of California. It is in this spirit that we propose a wildland reserve design for the Ranch that captures the broad array of landscape functions and conservation values that it supports.

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