Caliente, Calif. — Cowboy Tyrin Prince closes a gate as he works the cattle on the 15,000-acre Tollhouse Ranch, purchased by the Nature Conservancy in a rare coalition of ranchers and environmentalists to create a wildlife corridor.
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Caliente, Calif. — Blue oaks dot the 15,000-acre Tollhouse Ranch.
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Caliente, Calif. — The Nature Conservancy's E.J. Remson, right, gives a hand crossing a creek to ecologist Zachary Principe, as they check on sensitive habitat such as streams on Bill Parker's 9,600-acre ranch.
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Caliente, Calif. — Seeing that his way of life was as endangered as that of the wildlife on his land, Bill Parker sold the development rights to his 9,600-acre ranch in a deal led by the Nature Conservancy.
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Caliente, Calif. — Blue oaks dot the 15,000-acre Tollhouse Ranch.
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Caliente, Calif. — The Nature Conservancy's senior program manager and leader of the effort to link the three ranches E.J. Remson, right, strolls with conservancy ecologist Zachary Principe at Tollhouse Ranch.
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Caliente, Calif. — Spring lupine blooms at Tollhouse Ranch.
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Caliente, Calif. — Cattleman Bill Parker, left, who sold development rights on his ranch to a coalition of environmentalists, talks with the leader of the wildlife corridor effort, E.J. Remson of the Nature Conservancy.
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Caliente, Calif. — A frog hangs out on the Parker ranch.
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