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Preservation Ranch

The so-called “Preservation” Ranch was a 19,300 acre development in the heart of the Gualala River watershed owned by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and managed by Premier Pacific Vineyards (PPV).

Stop Wineries from Destroying Redwoods

Friends of the Gualala River and supporters protested and presented the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors with an 18 foot long copy of the 90,000-signature petition opposing the giant redwood forest destroying vineyard conversion projects,Preservation Ranch and Artesa Winery / Annapolis, at the supervisors’ public meeting on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. click to enlarge An 8 foot high walking “Chainsaw Wine” bottle …

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Preservation Ranch

Preservation Ranch saved in record deal A giant redwood forest in Sonoma County that was on the verge of being divvied up and plowed over into a patchwork of vineyards has been preserved by a public-private partnership that engineered what is being touted as the largest land conservation deal in California history. June, 2013, SF Chronicle Sonoma County redwood forest …

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Into the Woods

Friends of the Gualala River protects the Gualala River watershed in Northern California and the species living within it.

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Coalition asks CalPERS to withdraw Preservation Ranch proposal

Joseph Dear Chief Investment Officer, CalPERS George Diehr, Ph.D. Chair, CalPERS Investment Committee Vice President, CalPERS Board of Administration Janine Guillot Chief Operating Investment Officer, CalPERS CalPERS Board CalPERS Headquarters Lincoln Plaza North 400 Q Street Sacramento, CA 95811 SUBJECT: Preservation Ranch (former Premier Pacific Vineyards real estate investment portfolio): Reconsideration of investment prospects and alternatives To the Board of …

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Investigative reporter Will Parrish: “The North Coast Wine Industry: Draining Our Rivers Dry”

Thursday, March 3, 2011 7:00 p.m. Gualala Arts Center Investigative reporter Will Parrish will discuss his controversial recent series for the Anderson Valley Advertiser on the ecological toll of California’s wine industry, with a special emphasis on rapacious vineyard development in the Gualala River watershed. Summary In the past two decades, as the regional economies of the North Bay, North …

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