board of trustees staff Randy Knight, President Kaila Dettman, Executive Director Jim Patterson, Vice President Daniel Bohlman, Deputy Director Ann Robinson, Treasurer Jon Hall, Stewardship Director Jim Brabeck Kyle Walsh, Conservation Director Roger Briggs Joey Chavez, Operations Manager Joy Fitzhugh Scott Couture, Field Manager Jim Grant Jamie Creath, Outreach Manager David Juhnke Tim DeBlois, Restoration Specialist Pat Mullen Beverly Gingg, Oak Education Manager Carrisa Pereira Kelly Lewis, Restoration Specialist II Joel Sheets Scott Loosley, Community Stewardship Ron Yukelson Coordinator Grace Lorenzen, Barn Manager Valerie Endres, Emeritus Lindsey Roddick, Resoration Ecologist B.K. Richard, Emeritus Cain Silvey, Conservation Project Manager Rob DeGraff, Honorary Rachel Tarcon, Finance Manager Gary Felsman, Honorary Dylan Theobald, Stewardship Manager Beverly Gingg, Honorary Alex Zewiski, Oak Education Coordinator Chris Helenius, Honorary Pete Jenny, Honorary Jeff Jorgensen, Honorary Herb Kandel, Honorary Brooke Langle, Honorary Penny Rappa, Honorary credits Cover photo: Amy Joseph Back photo: Rylin Zbitowsky Design by Jamie Creath

The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County Mail to: PO Box 12206, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 Office: 1137 Pacific Street, Suite A, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Phone: (805) 544-9096 Email: [email protected] www.LCSLO.org Annual Report 2019

Conserve • Care • Connect 1

Our Mission We conserve and care for the diverse wildlands, farms, and ranches of the Central Coast. We connect people to the land and to each other.

Our Vision We envision a San Luis Obispo County that is composed of distinct communities surrounded by productive farms and ranches, beautiful scenery, and accessible natural areas. Clean water and local food nourishes our population, wildlife thrives, and we celebrate our diverse heritages. Every generation is connected to the land, and people embrace conservation as vital to a healthy, vibrant future.

© kaila dettman © shannon mcMillen © jennifer olsen C and thediverse, wonderous, andabundant wildplaceswe callhome. volunteer, partner, protectjoined usto who has agriculture local friend and you.Thank We are deeply toevery grateful family, farmer, rancher, business, lands we alllove, forever. ahead we will build onthe successes of yesterday andprotect more of the west, intheSLOGreenbelt, andalongourcoast. With your helpintheyears to nature throughoutcounty. our There ismoreHighway tocomealong 46 habitat forwildlife,fragile projects that willconnect andpursue more people We have beenquietly moving forwardto protect of land,tracts large restore organization are andourvolunteers takingabreak. We aren’t. have alotof attention inrecent garnered months, andyou mightthinkour Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook. and These projects tooktremendous effort cows atplaying theOctagonBarn;from and timeatchild a forthefirst everyone lovesPreserve; Pismo fromfamilya aboutmilking withstories fromdifferent perspectives: whydescribing from photographer local a you willhearaboutthese exciting projectsOn thepagesofthisannualreport playground that encouragesexploration beyond thebuilt environment. barn, ormeet for aplaydatefor acommunity fundraiserinacharismatic at a support. Thanks toyou, peopleare coming together to enjoy ahike, gather tookavillage,It truly andwe are humbled by your dedicated andgenerous in themaking–are nowopen tothepeople ofSLOCounty. completeand Center,Octagon Barn –three new andPismoPreserve projects alongtime hastooffer.thatall beautiful region our Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook, the marked by incredible toexplore andexperience new opportunities onnection. Community. Love oftheLand. have12 months The past been Executive Director Kaila Dettman President Randy Knight 2 3 “Hill... it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

Christopher Petro is a local photographer, ensure the preserve is freely accessible to all; I turned overjoyed discovering a patch of blogger and advocate for our precious a truly ambitious project aimed to benefit the California poppies, which felt all the more landscapes and natural resources. His passion public for generations. symbolic in the open space. It called to mind for photography and composition has blossomed I am a passionate supporter of their mission and Lyndon B. Johnson’s statement, “If future over the years into an ambitious and knowledge- I strongly encourage anyone in the Central Coast generations are to remember us with gratitude deepening devotion, fueling massive road trips, community to join the cause of this trailblazing rather than contempt, we must leave them long treks into wildernesses and fostering organization. Their work saves our most beautiful something more than the miracles of technology. connections with local businesses and creators areas from development - for the benefit and We must leave them a glimpse of the world as throughout the West. enjoyment of the people - while protecting the it was in the beginning, not just after we got Through his Instagram page, @the_californist, creatures and flora calling home these diverse through with it. We must not only protect the Christopher shares poignant reflections on habitats. countryside and save it from destruction; we life, love, and this planet we call home. We must restore what has been destroyed and salvage Walking just shy of 12 miles at the Preserve for the beauty and charm of our cities … Once our are grateful to him for lending his talents and my sunrise and sunset scouting, I visited every passions to this Annual Report and sharing with natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be region--exploring the lower areas, climbing recaptured. And once man can no longer walk you why the creation of the Pismo Preserve, and the hillside and peeking over the ridge at San protection of places like it, is so important. with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will Luis Obispo, walking from the most northern wither and his sustenance be wasted.” have waited years for the opportunity to reach to the most southern, up and down the “Iwander the hills of the Pismo Preserve; a soil, searching for compositions, lost in rapture. We must not allow our sacred spaces, as few as sprawling 900-acre open space brought to the The Tolkien hills came alive, an oasis framed by remain, to be denuded by our constantly begging Central Coast by the visionary team at The Land clouds, studded in flowers, teeming with wildlife, industrial and commercial aims. Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County. The secluded ponds a’chorus by frog and toad. These spaces are not simply subject to land folks behind the curtain have worked hard to Everything buzzing. management, they are our history and our 4

future. We’ll define our legacy by what we leave for those who come after us. And no dollar we pump, log, or process from these remaining jewels will fill us with the joyous freedom and spirit gained from leaving our open spaces open for all people and the wildlife that resides there. Long may it remain an untarnished open space, a place for pure recreation and blissful exploration, congregation and ease. A place for dreams and homecomings.” © christopher petro @the_californist

6 Conservation Crossword Puzzle

Across 4. F-14 on the Pismo Preserve trail map 5. _____ Canyon Overlook 6. Our Board President 7. An area we plan to work in over the next few years 9. “We connect people to the land and to ______” 11. A short trail for hikers only 12. Please don’t climb on my branches 13. “You take the high road and I’ll take the ______” 14. “The ____ hills came alive, an oasis framed by clouds, studded in flowers...”

Down 1. His family worked in the Octagon Barn from 1936-1941 2. The language John Olivera’s family spoke 3. The name of the property on which the Octagon Barn was erected 4. President quoted on page 3. 8. Local photographer and advocate for open spaces 10. A “hasty word” BG: Why Guernseys? “History is who we are and JO: That was what the Pereira family had. They were their cows. LL: So, your family was renting the land? why we are the way we are...” JO: It was a partnership. The Pereiras owned everything and our family did the work for a share - like a sharecropper. The owners were Manuel Garcia, and Joaquin Pereira—two brothers-in-law, and their two wives, who were - David McCullough the Lima sisters. At The Land Conservancy, preserving the historic significance that makes LL: Did your folks come from the same island in the Azores as the Pereiras? a place so special is almost as important as preserving the land itself. JO: No, it just happened that the thing came up, my dad was someone to Nowhere is this truer for our organization than at the Octagon Barn Center. run the dairy. That was 1936. We milked and fed the cows in the Octagon Built in 1906 as a dairy barn, the Pereira Octagon Barn was erected by Barn for two years, and then we built the milking barn in 1938, and after three local builders for a San Francisco ship captain named William Mighell that, we milked in it. on the Ranchita de Santa Fe, as the property was called at the time. BG: That newer barn is what’s now referred to as the “milking parlor,” Through tremendous volunteer efforts, the barn was restored in the early right? 2000s, and an attempt to trace the history of the unique families who JO: Yes. owned and worked this property began. The following are excerpts from an LL: Did the cows get milked in that barn and then at night go in the interview that took place between staff member Bev Gingg (BG), volunteer Octagon Barn? Lynn Landwher (LL) and John Olivera (JO) whose family worked on the Ranchita de Santa Fe from 1936-1941. JO: In this country we don’t put the cows in at night; but we stored hay in the Octagon Barn, and the cows were fed in the barn, but could mill JO: I’m John Olivera, I was born in 1927 in Los Gatos, California, and about. When they were milked in the Octagon Barn, they were put into until I was age 9, we lived in a little town called Lemoore. That’s where we stanchions, facing inwards around a smaller circle, where there was feed. moved from when we came to the Octagon Barn. After the milking barn was built the cows were given mill feed while they BG: Can you tell us a little bit more about when you first came to San Luis were in there, and they were in stanchions there too. Obispo, and how your family was involved in agriculture? LL: So when they went into the milking barn, they were…all cleaned JO: My parents immigrated from the Azore Islands, they were both up [for sanitary requirements]? And did they come in and get milked and Portuguese, and they were also pretty resourceful. They killed their own leave, one by one? meat, and had chickens and gardened, and [made] stuff that we got by on through the Depression years. JO: They probably got milked in smaller sets, maybe 10 or 15 cows each. My mom wasn’t well, she had asthma. That was one reason we moved BG: And how was the milk transported to the creamery? here, because over in the San Joaquin Valley the air was bad. JO: The milk, as it came from the cows, went over a refrigerated cooler We came to the [Ranchita de Santa Fe] in 1936 and stayed until 1941. The which was about four feet by four feet. The milk ran slowly over that and dairy was called the Home Dairy. It was the largest dairy that my dad had then down into ten-gallon milk cans. The evening milk was stored in a cold ever attempted. We kids were all young; my two oldest brothers were 15 room at the barn, and the morning milk was taken that same morning to and 16, and they pretty much took care of milking the cows with one hired the plant, they were all taken in together. man. We used milking machines twice a day - all Guernsey cows. The same family that owned the barn, owned the Home Dairy—on 8 Higuera Street. They pasteurized and bottled there, and then delivered the first to eighth grade in the same room, one teacher. milk to people’s homes. There was a Portuguese gentleman there named LL: And were there a lot of other Portuguese students in the area? Gilles Costa--he managed that plant for years and years. JO: Yes. And the Portuguese that came over here were from the [Azores] BG: Could we talk a bit about language? Your parents were born in the Islands. There was nothing at home for those people….they’d come as long Azores, so their native language was Portuguese. When you were growing as somebody sponsored them….these young women would be 17, 18, up, did they speak in a mix of Portuguese and English? 20, they’d come over alone, with almost no money and couldn’t speak the JO: My father always spoke good English. He was ten years old when he language, and they’d line up at Ellis Island, and the sponsor was in Tulare, came over with his family and he could read, write and speak very good or Fresno, and they’d put a tag on their coat, their name, and the conductor English, but my mother never took to learning. But she studied to take her would tell them where to get off the train. They had almost no money, and citizenship papers, and she could recite the Bill of Rights to you, which is they’d come over here and start a new life like that. The courage that those something I could never do. people had! BG: What did your schooling look like - and if the children were also Most Portuguese men would start out working on the farms, what did your after-school life look like? milking cows and they would save their JO: I went to Bellevue School, which was about three miles past the ranch. pennies until they could buy a few Our teacher came by the ranch in the morning. She had cows and maybe 40 acres, and a ’37 Chevy, brand new, and picked us up there, then they were in business… took us to school, eight grades in one room, from and they got going, and they, they just did it!

This 1938 photo depicts a young John Olivera on top of a cow at the Ranchita de Santa Fe with the Octagon Barn in the background. In January 2017 John celebrated his 100th birthday at the Octagon Barn Center. Much smaller in scale, but with infinite potential to shape the next generation of conservationists, Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook opened in April 2019 with much fanfare (thanks in part to a local mariachi band). But it wasn’t really complete until this January when our educational and interactive playground was finally installed. From a recent visit with his son, our Deputy Director Daniel Bohlman describes finally seeing this project through a child’s eyes. y son is fascinated by the concept of infinity. This somewhat abstract “Mnotion that numbers and space can go on forever blows his six-year- old mind. I once asked him what else might be infinite, and he responded with impressive speed and insight, “my imagination!” On a recent trip to the newly installed playground at Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook I witnessed the unbounded nature of his imagination in real time. As

he ran to the playground, eyes scanning every corner, he called out the various © daniel bohlman critters hidden amongst the structure, giving them personalities and elaborate backstories as only a six-year-old can. It turns out that raccoon peering out from beneath the platform is not to be trusted. Coming down from the slide his gaze fell upon the iron “beanstalks” which had seemingly sprouted up from the sandy soil with no less magic than those grown from enchanted storybook beans. His small frame was quickly upon the highest reaches of the stalks wherein he himself became a giant among men. Not one to stand idly by, I joined him in this imaginary kingdom in the clouds thinking to myself Fee Fi Fo Fum there is no substitute for outdoor fun.”

© rylin zbitowsky 10 Revenues Expenses General & Administration In-Kind Youth <1% Outreach & By the Numbers Education Stewardship Volunteer Support <1% & Restoration Land Conservation 17% 12% ASSETS FYE 06/30/2019 Grants & Income Membership Other 4% Receivables & Inventory $676,635 38% & Fundraising Income 3% 2% Cash & cash equivalents $1,046,665 11% Land assets $16,486,221 Land Conservation Youth Stewardship Grants & Income Education Investments & beneficial interest $1,442,450 Contributions, Grants 38% 2% Property & equipment $5,792,378 Unrestricted & Fee Revenue Contributions & 48% Total Assets $25,444,349 Membership

LIABILITIES FYE 06/30/2019 Accounts payable $377,883 For more detailed information, visit www.LCSLO.org and download our Form 990. Accrual & other liabilities $128,541 Notes payable, current $509,473 REVENUES & SUPPORT FYE 06/30/2019 EXPENSES FYE 06/30/2019 Long-term liabilities $1,345,318 Land Conservation Grants & Income $2,185,524 Land Conservation $2,393,872 Total Liabilities $2,361,215 Stewardship Contributions, Grants & $2,754,788 Stewardship & Restoration $666,234 Fee Revenue Youth Education $72,197 Youth Education Contributions $55,450 NET ASSETS FYE 06/30/2019 Outreach & Volunteer Support $156,480 In-Kind Contributions $17,640 Without donor restrictions $21,699,011 General & Administration $468,415 Unrestricted Contributions & $636,917 With donor restrictions $1,384,123 Membership & Fundraising $97,039 Membership Total Net Assets $23,083,134 Total Functional Expenses $1,898,611 Other Income $102,529 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $25,444,349 Total Revenues & Support $5,752,848

$3,288,783 or 85.4% of the dollars spent were used to directly support our program services, which consist of Land Conservation, Stewardship, Outreach, and Youth Education. This does not include $2.98 million in capital improvement costs spent during the fiscal year on the Octagon Barn Center, Pismo Preserve and Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook, which are captured in Property & Equipment Assets.

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