Sunday, December 20, 2009

Governor Announces Irvine Ranch Land Designated as California Natural Landmark

Most of 50,000-acre Irvine agronomical accustomed as the first-rver California Natural Landmark. I am aflame to account Earth Day by adulatory this countdown designation, which marks a above attention anniversary for California This appellation is no baby accomplishment, because it is the aboriginal in a accompaniment admired throughout the apple for its different and beauteous accustomed resources. Today's appellation is the acme of years of accord and assurance for all of us who embrace a top accepted for protection, attention and accessible acceptance to accessible amplitude in Orange County This appellation validates the attention efforts that will accumulate this acreage appropriate for ancestors to come. We are adulatory the countdown California Natural Landmark on Earth Day because the affairs is an important way to admit and animate administration of important accustomed resources

Irvine, CA -- California State Parks Director Ruth Coleman today appear that of the 50,000 acreage assuredly preserved on the celebrated Irvine Ranch, about 40,000 accept been appointed as the first-ever California Natural Landmark (CNL).

The appellation is the aboriginal beneath a accompaniment affairs that clearly recognizes and promotes both clandestine and accessible administration of accustomed assets for accessible account in the accompaniment of California.

"I am aflame to account Earth Day by adulatory this countdown designation, which marks a above attention anniversary for California," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "This appellation is no baby accomplishment, because it is the aboriginal in a accompaniment admired throughout the apple for its different and beauteous accustomed resources."

"Today's appellation is the acme of years of accord and assurance for all of us who embrace a top accepted for protection, attention and accessible acceptance to accessible amplitude in Orange County," said Donald Bren, Chairman of The Irvine Company. "This appellation validates the attention efforts that will accumulate this acreage appropriate for ancestors to come."

A California Natural Landmark is appointed alone afterwards affair accurate accurate criteria. Areas called are those that best allegorize California's affluent biological and geological appearance and accede the land's amount for science and education.

The acreage included in the California Natural Landmark accommodate some of the state's a lot of admirable wilderness and is home to hundreds of attenuate breed of plants and animals. This has led attention scientists to analyze the arena as an ecological hot spot.

Bren has accustomed that artlessly ambience abreast the acreage for California acreage attention wasn't enough; The Irvine Company has committed $50 actor to ensure the lands' abiding protection, accessory and availability for the public's analysis and enjoyment.

"We are adulatory the countdown California Natural Landmark on Earth Day because the affairs is an important way to admit and animate administration of important accustomed resources," said Glenn Olson, controlling administrator of Audubon California, who co-sponsored the bill that created the CNL program.

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About The Irvine Company
The Irvine Company is a 140-year-old, abreast captivated absolute acreage investment aggregation best accepted for the balanced, acceptable communities it has planned and developed on The Irvine Ranch® in Orange County, California. The Irvine Company aswell is accepted for its portfolio of high-quality, high-profile investment backdrop -- which cover above appointment buildings, hotels, accommodation communities, marinas and retail centers.

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