When people think of Jenner, they imagine not only a quaint little town nestled on the north shore of the Russian River's fragile estuary, but they think also of how this great California river is now finally reaching the fickle, sandy opening to the Pacific Ocean.  This place, with its once again wild Penny Island, is a protected home to many land, air, and water species.  People remember the great sweep of beach, dramatized with the sounds of mighty crashing waves, chattering shore birds, and occasional bark of pinnipeds, all set against the imposing silent presence of Goat Rock and the many sea stacks arranged just off shore.  There's reason this sheltered little town is considered a gem on the great Sonoma Coast, but more so, people hark back to the varied traces of history, still seen in names like "Muniz Ranch" and "Rule Ranch."  They consider that Bridgehaven remains the established crossing between what once were Russian and Spanish territorial claims, and later, an oceanside connection between the rugged timber areas of the north and the gentler farming areas to the south.  They think then even further back to times when native peoples foraged through this abundant area from sea to Willow Creek, then back.  Some even know that this has been home to this hemisphere's earliest peoples, and mastodons and saber tooth tigers themselves.  All this, and more, is what defines Jenner and its greater environs.  It is a treasure to be honored.

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