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Gov. Joins Bren at Landmark Event

An ample amount of star power was on display last week at a ceremony at Crystal Cove State Park as a large chunk of the Irvine Ranch received federal designation as a national landmark.

The Irvine Company Chairman Donald Bren shared the stage with surprise guest and friend Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Irvine Co. partly owns the 37,000 acres of undeveloped land that received the “National Natural Landmark” designation.

The Irvine Ranch land is the first area in the state to be designated as a National Natural Landmark since 1987.

Other areas in the state getting the designation in the past include Mount Shasta, Mount Diablo State Park and the La Brea Tar Pits.

“For many years, I have walked, hiked, biked and ridden the trails and wilderness lands of this ranch,” Bren said. “They are very close to my heart, my home, and my daily life.”

Schwarzenegger touted his administration’s environmental efforts at the ceremony.

The event “celebrates another area of our state that can be enjoyed for generations,” the governor said.

The land included in the landmark designation is owned by the Irvine Co., along with the county, the city of Irvine, the Nature Conservancy and California State Parks.

It is part of the 50,000-acre Irvine Ranch Land Reserve, which runs from the ocean east to the inland foothills at the edge of the county.

,Mark Mueller

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Mark Mueller
Mark Mueller
Mark is the Editor-in-Chief of the Orange County Business Journal, one of the premier regional business newspapers in the country. He’s the fifth person to hold the editor’s position in the paper’s long history. He oversees a staff of about 15 people. The OCBJ is considered a must-read for area business executives. The print edition of the paper is the primary source of local news for most of the Business Journal’s subscribers, which includes most of OC’s major corporate and community players. Mark’s been with the paper since 2005, and long served as the real estate reporter for the paper, breaking hundreds of commercial and residential real estate stories. He took on the editor’s position in 2018.
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