About the Authors

Maria João Santos

mjsantos@stanford.edu

Current address: Department of Innovation, Environmental and Energy Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Affiliation Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Spatial History Project, and Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Terry Watt

Affiliation Terry Watt Planning Associates, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stephanie Pincetl

Affiliation California Center for Sustainable Communities, Institute of the Environment University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJS TW SP. Performed the experiments: MJS TW SP. Analyzed the data: MJS TW SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJS TW SP. Wrote the paper: MJS TW SP. Collected and analyzed the data on California conservation history: MJS. Contributed the history of land use policy: SP. Contributed the legislative timeline and provided oversight over the legislative components: TW.