Talk:Rancho El Chorro

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Is this abridged?[edit]

This place is more than just a historical land grant. It's used for field trips, in line with the state of California's emphasis on teaching children about indigenous peoples, as well as the impact of European colonialism on them. They also teach basic ecology, generally focusing on plants and animals found in the area. You even get to test the PH balance of your own saliva. Incidentally, from there you can also see the later stages of rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, but that is neither relevant to this topic nor something utilized in their educational programs.

Academic literature about the place might be hard to come by, but at the very least, they do have a website explaining their facilities and programs, even if it does appear to be a tad Web 1.0.

Currently, this reads something like an entry about the land on which Disneyland was later built, without even a mention of Disneyland itself. I would update it myself, but I am not a Wikipedian and have no interest in becoming one. - Someone that visited Rancho El Chorro in the late 90s (i.e. the only potential reader of this article, aside from a college student, whom we all know shouldn't really be using wikipedia for research in the first place!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.233.46.168 (talk) 19:03, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]