Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
Originally the pueblo lands of the Kumeyaay, Marston purchased the first acreage for conservation. George, with botanists David Cleveland and Belie Angler convinced the 1889 City Council to pass an ordinance preserving 364 acres. Ellen Browning Scripps then took the lead, between 1908 and 1911, she acquired two additional pueblo lots and willed them to the people of San Diego. Today it is 1,500 acres of coastal wilderness.

Photo by Sandé Lollis