A San Francisco-sized piece of land has been preserved; protecting roaming black bears, antelope, and red tailed hawks

The city of San Francisco is home to over 800,000 people, and dotted with countless pets, piers, parks, and bustling businesses.

Now, picture that same stretch of land copied and pasted atop the green, rolling hills of San Luis Obispo County, California.

There, on 27,512 acres of the property, rests Camatta Ranch, a cattle ranch that just completed the second biggest land conservation easement in the country.

“It’s an incredible landscape filled with rolling hills, green grass, oak woodlands and really important wildlife habitat,” Land Conservancy of SLO County executive director Kaila Dettman told The San Luis Obispo Tribune. “It’s really, really exciting to protect something of this scale.”

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