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Preserving the Landscape
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Southwest Art
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August 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Active Interest Media Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This excerpt from a new book showcases six artists who participate in the annual Ranches & Rolling Hills art show, which helps protect California's unspoiled western Marin County By Elisabeth Ptak
FEW PLACES in the United States provide a pastoral landscape as appealing and memorable as that of western Marin County. Winding roads curve around vast panoramas of land and sea. The passing scene is enhanced by family farms that line the shores and are tucked into unspoiled canyons reaching deep into the heart of the countryside. It's a landscape shaped by human activity, to be sure, but compared with the way it looked 150 years ago, not much seems to have changed. Parts of the San Francisco ...
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