The 270,000 unfragmented acres of Tejon Ranch, bordering the second-most-populous region in the United States, are visible from interstate 5 as drivers head south into the maw of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The largest chunk of privately owned wilderness in Southern California embraces four of the Golden State's eight eco-regions: the grasslands of the Mojave Desert; the oak woodlands of the Great Central Valley; the chaparral-studded South Coast; and the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada.
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