For many landowners, it is not practical to pick up every bit of insulation blown onto their land.

The result: We don't have these huge highways downtown which are just loud and a no-man's-land.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I see these lands as belonging to the people of Nipomo and California, not the Land Conservancy.

[Although much of the downed timber is on private land, Odom is hoping to get federal approval to process much of it in sawmills. But the future of the wind-scoured forests] is my big concern, ... It'll take 30 years to replace most of those trees. Losing that resource hurts us bad.

We know how much land we need and where we need to be, meaning not too far from the major roads. But when it's going to happen depends on the economy. The Legislature can't appropriate funding it doesn't have. We're still trying to get a more firm financial foundation.