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However by 1677 the entire Salinas District, was depopulated of both Indian and Spaniard alike.
Salinas Pueblo Missions was set aside because of the importance of the cultural resources, however, there is a major connecting link to the natural resources.
The link is the importance of man's adjustment to a marginal land and the man-land relationship during the past 1,000+ years of occupation.