# @mysteryranch on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B-7YpCvpJxz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18297301-mysteryranch-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-04-13T16:33:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** MYSTERY RANCH (@mysteryranch) — https://gondola.cc/mysteryranch

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“I’ve been waiting for this moment for 70 years,” Marty exclaimed from a folding chair at the morning briefing, his voice mildly shaking yet strong and certain, his hands resting on a cane that looked more like a wizard’s staff than an elder’s aid. A mixture of light laughter and awe-filled respect spread throughout the newly acquainted firefighters gathered in the dawn’s early light.

Dr. L. Martin Griffin, known as Marty by friends and colleagues—99 years young and mind still sharp as a tack —is the man who made this gathering possible when he brought together a different community of friends so many years ago to protect a 1,000-acre California coastal ranch from development. In doing so, they founded the nature conservation organization, Audubon Canyon Ranch. No longer a dairy ranch, this West Marin wetland, and watershed is now his namesake, Martin Griffin Preserve.

And while the Martin Griffin Preserve has been protected from many threats including imminent development, the removal of grazing cattle and frequent cultural burning before that—what ecologists call a disturbance regime—has converted the preserve’s historic rolling ridges of beautiful coastal prairie into dense monocultures of impenetrable coyote brush and Douglas fir forest. For decades, Marty watched this change come to pass from his home across the Bolinas Lagoon but due to stewardship challenges and regulatory and political hurdles, taking action to fight this conversion always felt out of reach.

Read our newest blog from Ambassador Sash Berleman (thefirepoppy ). Link in Bio ^^
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