It has been a long-cherished wish of our family to provide future generations of Californians an unspoiled, beautiful venue with a magnificent view of the Pacific.

We decided to do something especially meaningful.

It's the little ones that we always cared about most.

..the family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from our earliest years, that success-true success-means capturing and holding , something more. That something more is the future-to excel is very well, but one needs to excel and survive. To seize lands is well and good, but we want to hold them for all time. Which means creating and building a family-defending the family that is, and creating the next generation. Because it's the next generation that's our future. Without securing that future, material success is no real success at all.

We're protecting our historic resources for future generations. Once they're gone, they're gone forever.

I am sure they all want to preserve the lake for future generations. I am going to make a personal donation myself.