OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY
Protecting your views, trails, water and wildlife
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Spring Newsletter 2015 Volume 22, Number 2
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Last Section of the Fuelbreak Road Trail Protected Forever Ojai’s front country trails got another “leg up” this month with a donated easement to the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy (OVLC) for the final section of OVLC’s Fuelbreak Road Trail. Most of the popular trail had been put into a trail easement in the late 1990’s— connecting the U.S. Forest Service’s Fuelbreak Road and Gridley Trail. The newly donated portion is the final link to the mile-long trail which affords beautiful views of the valley and mountains.
about Ojai after a chance meeting on a Sierra camping trip with local architect Austen Pierpont. In 1931, the family moved to Ojai. The Major was a civil engineer and well known local surveyor. He received the first portion of the property in trade for doing engineering work on
When Boyd Dron passed away last November, his wife Karin wanted to give a lasting tribute to his memory. “Boyd loved standing on the trail and looking down at the beautiful valley he so loved. Giving access to others is a fitting memory to him,” said Karin who feels very strongly about keeping public access open to Ojai’s mountains and trails. Though Boyd was born at Cottage Hospital in 1932, his parents brought him home to the very property the trail runs through. It was the Depression then, and the family was building a stone house on the then four-acre property and living in a tent. The house became known as “Dronhame” reflective of the Drons’ Scottish heritage. Boyd’s father was John A. Dron, Sr., known locally as “the Major.” He had heard Protecting your views, trails, water and wildlife
Top: Newly protected section of the Fuelbreak Road Trail. Above: Boyd and Karin Dron
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