AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY IN SUMMER 2020 SHARED HOW a parcel of nearly 1,200 acres of Big Sur wilderness, valued at $4.5 million, was returned to the Indigenous Esselen Tribe. Tom Little Bear Nason, chairman of the Esselen Tribe, described the deal: “We are so elated and so honored to be the recipients of our ancestral home. It couldn’t be a … more sacred spot than this land. The whole Origin Story started right there on this land, on the sacred mountain called Pico Blanco, also known as Pitchi in our language. And it is the basis of our whole lives— the center of our universe.” 2020s 2020s Autonomous farm machinery and artificial intelligence tools arrive in the Salinas Valley 2023 Annual Crop and Livestock Report values Monterey County agriculture at more than $4.35 billion The County of Monterey Office of Emergency Services transitions to the Department of Emergency Management 2020 213,000 H-2A visas issued for temporary foreign farmworkers in Monterey County Courtesy of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County; Photographer: Matthew Pendergast Above: The Esselen Tribe of Monterey County held a ceremony on their ancestral land in 2020.
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