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

I want to help give people the tools to connect with the land, to appreciate what is there, ... Doing things like exploring in the Loess Hills, people can learn how incredibly beautiful they are.

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

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

[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.