Ventura County residents undoubtedly appreciate the region’s natural assets. This election season, local voters have been asked to renew their commitment via local measures to help preserve agricultural and open space. This effort comes after residents of the county and most cities passed 20-year-long initiatives in the 1990s. In various cities, land conservancy members work tirelessly with landowners to maintain a precious natural landscape that we too often see get gobbled up in development. And now, the U.S. Congress is weighing legislation, the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act, that would continue along the same path of preservation, but this time for public lands in the Los Padres National Forest and the Carrizo Plain National Monument.
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