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Preserving "nature's artistry": Torrey Pines during its formative years as a city and state park.
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California History
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March 1, 2008
- Author:
- Walsh, Victor A.
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The City of San Diego ... stands alone among the cities of a world in having within its confines a singularly outstanding example of Nature's artistry .... This is Torrey Pines Preserve.
GUY FLEMING, Superintendent, Southern Division, California Division of Parks, 1942 (1)
In the spring of 1850, while exploring the Torrey Pines and Del Mar headlands overlooking Los Penasquitos Creek marsh north of San Diego, Dr. Charles C. Parry, the official botanist of U.S.--Mexican Boundary Survey, discovered the Torrey pine. He noted its distorted, twisted branches, unusually dense cones, and sheaths of long, stout needles, and sent a specimen to his friend and former instructor, ...