The Land Trust received the full amount of $2.5 million that it requested and plans to sign a contract with the Conservancy at the end of the month.

In January, the Land Trust a the Monterey-based nonprofit that focuses on land and water conservation in the Central Coast a negotiated a purchase-and-sale agreement and signed a contract with the Ikeda family of Salinas to buy all 73 acres of the familyas land on 450 acres of farmland known as Carr Lake.

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A detail from a map provided by the Big Sur Land Trust which shows the Ikeda property, marked in yellow, in the middle of the Carr Lake basin, in crosshatch.