Local News in Brief : 1,800 Acres to Be Sold to Park Service
The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is selling about 1,800 acres of parkland in Ventura County and Zuma Canyon to the National Park Service for $8 million.
A spokesman for the conservancy, a state parks agency that buys and administers parkland in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, said it will hold the funds for additional land purchases for the national park.
For the $8 million, the Park Service will receive the 1,665-acre Circle X Ranch in southeast Ventura County and 132 acres of Zuma Canyon. Earlier this year, the Park Service announced that it would buy 646 additional acres of Zuma Canyon for $3 million.
The land deal might be a sign that the conservancy is gearing up for a final effort to obtain the 320-acre site of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Agoura. The transfer of the Park Service’s money to the conservancy, which has about $21 million available in state bond funds, puts all the public dollars for Santa Monica Mountains land acquisition in the hands of one agency.
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