“Land Manager” ought to be California State Parks’ Portia Halbert’s title. Protect seabirds? Plant 150,000 shrubs? Manage controlled burns? All in day’s work.

State Parks “land manager” helps tend 70,000 acres
June 11, 2013 •
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“Land Manager” ought to be California State Parks’ Portia Halbert’s title. Protect seabirds? Plant 150,000 shrubs? Manage controlled burns? All in day’s work.
In the Santa Cruz Mountains, some passionate folks look after rare plants and animals in a unique habitat defined by sand but threatened by mining, development, and fragmentation.