You may know it as Dog Ranch or perhaps Dead Man s Drop Forest, but forget that. The parcels immediately to the west of Samoa Bridge are now officially the Samoa Dunes and Wetlands Conservation Area. We re looking to re-introduce this place to our community, says Mike Cipra, who heads up Friends of the Dunes, the new titleholder of the 357 acres. This property is a fantastic jewel for our local community and we want to emphasize just how special it is with the name. The recently concluded sale saw three agencies the California Coastal Conservancy, the California Natural Resources Agency and the California Wildlife Conservation Board joining forces to fund the purchase of 12 coastal dune and waterfront parcels from Security National for approximately $2 million. One condition of the sale was that Security National would clean up the property following years of dumping and squatting, and they ve done a great job. We now have a virtually pristine piece of public land for t