Next to the Zayante Fire Station, hidden just out of view, lie acres of precious Santa Cruz Sandhill habitat. Amongst species found nowhere else in the world – like the Mount Hermon June beetle and Ben Lomond spineflower — an invaluable Santa Cruz County resource is also harvested: drinking water. Here, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District is working to steward the land, while also extracting that increasingly coveted resource. This month, the district finished the first phase of a multiyear restoration project funded by Pacific Gas & Electric Co., removing more than 7 acres of invasive trees and shrubs on Olympia Watershed lands.