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. Water flows down Little Sur River at Camp Pico Blanco in Big Sur, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. , a 14,100-acre property in Carmel Valley that former Apple computer co-founder Mike Markkula sold this summer for $35 million to the Wildlands Conservancy, a San Bernardino group that plans to open it to the public.
Three years ago, the national Boy Scouts of America declared bankruptcy after facing a wave of sexual abuse lawsuits. A federal judge in Delaware approved a $2.46 billion agreement to settle 82,000 claims of scouts who said they were abused over decades. It was the largest sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history.
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