Donating Land To the State

A nonprofit conservation group has bought 66 acres of the Los Cerritos Wetlands in Long Beach and donated the property to the state, the first success in a decades-long attempt to buy and restore the entire 400-acre marsh and protect it from further development.

Read the rest. Quite interesting. I wonder, though, if the donation came with any strings on the state's uses of the land?

(There's a photo-tour of the bike trail from the San Gabriel Mountains down to the ocean here. I used to bike along a stretch of this myself, when I lived in the area.)