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Article: State park gains 2,770 acres in deal with Nature Conservancy.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 20, 2001
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ In a purchase that will save historic endangered habitat near Silicon Valley, Henry W. Coe State Park has gained 2,770 acres of rugged hills and early California landscape that were once slated to become another suburb of San Jose.
Developers envisioned more than a hundred homes on the hills overlooking the park near Gilroy before the Nature Conservancy and an open space district obtained the land. The conservation groups bought the former cattle ranch, a 9,234-acre spread called Lakeview Meadows Ranch, in 1998 for $6.3 million.
In an agreement struck late Friday, the state parks department agreed to pay the Nature Conservancy $1 ...