Escondido Canyon is but a hop, skip and short hike from Ramirez Canyon, where two conservation groups--the state's Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and the nonprofit Mountains Conservancy Foundation--are headquartered in Barbra Streisand's former estate.
Though Mr. Fairey still owns Peckerwood, the Garden Conservancy helped him establish a garden conservation foundation in 1998, to preserve the collections and to continue plant exploration, which is crucial to the diversity of species here.
"Driftwood Properties offered to deed the property as open space and at no cost to several entities including the city of Laguna Beach, County of Orange, California Coastal Conservancy, Laguna Canyon Foundation, California Coastal Commission and others," Joan Gladstone, a spokeswoman for Athens Group, which represents the property owner, said in an email.
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy, the nonprofit foundation that owns about 88percentt of the island, offers partially off-road ecology tours in a Jeep starting at $98 a person for a three-hour trip.
Sponsored by the Great Park Conservancy, an independent foundation that supports the development of the massive project, this year's event began inside the restored World War II Hangar 244.
Three tours will be offered on Oct. 7 between 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to benefit the foundation, the conservancy group for the Rose Island Lighthouse.
They will gain insight into the differences in operations and public accountability among a public agency, a foundation, a conservancy or a nonprofit trust.
He chaired the boards of the Central Park Conservancy and the Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research, and was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
When property developers planned to build next to the cave, Bat Conservation International, which manages the site, sought assistance from the city of San Antonio, The Nature Conservancy and local charitable foundations.
"His visionary leadership in land conservation established the foundations for not only the conservancy but the modern conservation movement," Steven J. McCormick, chief executive of the conservancy, said in a statement.
