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Prominent Silicon Valley couple aims to save 100,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada
TRUCKEE — In the 1860s, Congress created a huge checkerboard of land ownership across California's Sierra Nevada mountain range when it granted every other square mile to railroad barons along the route of the transcontinental railroad.
Now, nearly 150 years later, one of Silicon Valley's high-profile couples is working to buy back the squares for nature.....
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