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Henry W. Coe State Park : ウィキペディア英語版 | Henry W. Coe State Park
Henry W. Coe State Park (or Coe Park for short) is a state park of California, USA, preserving a vast tract of the Diablo Range. It is located in Santa Clara and Stanislaus counties. The park contains over , making it the largest state park in northern California, and the second-largest in the state (after Anza-Borrego Desert State Park). Managed within its boundaries is a designated wilderness area of about . This is officially known as the Henry W. Coe State Wilderness, but locally as the Orestimba Wilderness. The park was established in 1959. == History == Henry W. Coe State Park began as the Pine Ridge Ranch, a private cattle ranch of . It was the home of Henry Willard Coe, Jr. and his family from 1905 until his death in 1943. Coe left the ranch to his son, Henry Sutcliffe Coe, who sold it to the Beach Land and Cattle Company of Fresno County in 1948. The ranch's road network was greatly expanded during this time. Coe's daughter, Sada Coe Robinson, re-purchased the ranch in 1950 and donated it to Santa Clara County in 1953, when it became Henry Willard Coe County Park. It became a state park in 1958. Additional adjacent lands were added, and for many years, the park's size stood at . Indeed, many currently available state road maps still show the park in its 13,000 acre configuration. The park expanded considerably in the early 1980s with the purchase of adjacent properties to the east and south (the Gill-Mustang and Coit ranches, respectively), bringing the size to ). In the early 1990s the Redfern Ranch added some in the south, and since 2000 lands to the west have been purchased for inclusion. The park is still growing. The northern part of the park, including the Orestimba Wilderness, was swept by a massive wildfire starting on September 3, 2007. Named the Lick Fire after it was first spotted by nearby Lick Observatory, the fire had grown to by the evening of September 6, and ultimately burned by the time it was contained on September 11. Fire officials blamed the fire on burning debris within a barrel at a hunting club adjacent to the park.〔(Lick Fire General Information ), California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection〕 The person responsible for the fire came forward, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge, and was ultimately ordered to pay $750,000 in restitution. 〔(Charge: Teacher started Lick fire ), San Jose Mercury News, 2007-09-27〕 All areas affected by the fire were re-opened to unrestricted public access on February 16, 2008.
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