Esselen Tribe, a camp for disabled kids and a leadership group have the 718-acre property in escrow.
Tom Little Bear Nason, chairman of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey, plays a flute in the burnt-out trunk of the “Learning Tree” at Camp Pico Blanco in Big Sur, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. The camp, surrounded by the Ventana Wilderness in Big Sur, closed in 2016 after a wildfire and winter storms made access difficult.
“It’s an exceptional property,” said Sue Doroff, president of the Western Rivers Conservancy, a Portland environmental group that is helping provide money for the deal. “Lands like this don’t change hands often.” Farr, now 82, remembers sleeping in heavy canvas tents and eating hot dogs and beans during trips there in 1954 and 1955 when he was 13.
For Camping Unlimited, a group founded in 1957 to provide summer camps for children with disabilities, the deal was a godsend. The tribe will use the Pico Blanco wilderness and the other properties, for ceremonies, dances, gathering medicinal plants, and in some areas, prescribed fire using traditional practices, Nason said.
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