Profiles in Preservation

Barboni Ranch, Hick's Valley

Bill Barboni is the 81-year-old patriarch of a Hick¹s Valley family that includes Rosemarie, his wife of 56 years, and their five grown children, Charlie, Stephanie, Bonnie, Bill II, and Julie. Like Bill, all of them are bound to the Land by history, memory, or profession. And so in June, 2002, the family sold MALT an easement which enabled them to purchase the 448-acre portion of the ranch where Bill¹s childhood home is located. The easement covers that acreage and an adjacent 862 acres already owned by the Barboni's, permanently protecting a total of 1,310 acres from non-agricultural development. The Barboni Ranch project covers more land than any single easement ever purchased by MALT.

"It's something that started with nothing,"Bill says. "But we've kept the land for 75 years. I hope the kids can have another 75 like we have." Bill himself is in it for the long haul. "I'm the last old-timer left in the valley,"he says. "I'll never leave this ranch."


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