It takes a village…or a valley: Lockwood Valley Red Shirts win big prize in historic vote

  • [photo by Patric Hedlund, The Mountain Enterprise]

    [photo by Patric Hedlund, The Mountain Enterprise]

By Patric Hedlund, TME

If you live in these mountains long enough, you can’t avoid bumping up against the gravel-voiced, often harsh-spoken Doug Hallmark at least once. He’s a retired sheriff’s deputy who has lived in Lockwood Valley for over 30 years.

Hallmark is the walking definition of the word gruff. But on Tuesday night, March 12, his emotions could only be described as giddy: “I’m tickled to death,” he said, surprising even himself.

Hearing the word “tickle” come out of his own mouth led Hallmark to say it again: “I’m tickled to death that we got involved…and that we won this one!”

Hallmark said…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Exhausted but bursting with smiles late Tuesday night, March 12, Lockwood Valley neighbors (l-r) Lois Lee, Leah Trudell, Lori and Doug Hallmark, Donna Read and Gary Lee stayed to the bitter end of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors’ marathon 8.5-hour hearing. The Lockwood Valley Red Shirt Gang won their points to save ‘in-holdings’ through the entire national forest region (including Mutau Flat, Ozena and Snedden Ranch) from zoning overlays for the county’s breakthrough wildlife corridor ordinance.

Ventura County Supervisor Kelly Long and Board Chair Steve Bennett listened to earnest logic from red-shirt Lockwood Valley residents Donna Read and Don Billesbach.

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