07/30/2024
This is some of the history of our old ranch the Historic Nelson Ranch that Clark Pacific Clark Pacific Woodland is planning to tear down - super sad - HATE developers . They said Don Clark would fix it for his house or office .
I wrote and passed 2 ballot measures and recently helped the farmers fight the Floodwall again this year and won again by 70% - fighting Sac developers that want to flood the ranch and 3,000 acres in woodlandto take their land out of the floodplain .
“Historic Nelson Ranch was a cattle ranch built in 1868 by Camillus Nelson. The
house is 5,000 square foot brick Italianate. Both the house and the estate are on
the National Register. The gabled roof feature, built in air condition system and
brick makes this house unique. The house was built before cement, and the
brick floats on a sand composition.
In 2000 the City of Woodland at the direction of City Council, Army Corp of
Engineers and FEMA attempted to build a flood barrier, now known as the "Flood
Wall". The Flood Wall would have flood over 5,000 acres of Class one soil, some
of the best soil left in the county and California.
The ranch and house would have been taken by the Corp of Engineers, due to the
depth of flooding. Residents both in the county and city worked together and
wrote the Floodwall inititive that prevented the City of Woodland from destroying
the 3,000 acres of agricultural land out here. Out ballot measure passed by a
70% vote. We also replaced the Supervisor representing this area trying to
support the floodwall. While we still need to repair Cache Creek, the Historic
Nelson Ranch and the surrounding Class 1 soil and neighbors are today
protected from the threat of the wall”
Pete McCloskey
