The conservancy wanted it as a wildlife corridor where deer, coyotes and other animals could move between the Hollywood and San Diego freeways | Wikimedia Commons
In 1998, he donated 74 acres of open land in the Hollywood Hills to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, with the property valued at $2 million at the time.
John Diaz was the acquisitions director for the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy at that time, who said that the agency planned to improve those trails after acquiring the property. Alex Trebek is a game show host, most commonly known for Jeopardy! . The donation nearly doubled the public parkland in the area and protected land that officials wanted to preserve as a wildlife corridor. The land had been sought for more than recreation, however since the conservancy wanted it as a wildlife corridor where deer, coyotes and other animals could move between the Hollywood and San Diego freeways. Trebek Open Space now sits beside Runyon Canyon Park, while its trails and surrounding hills form part of the network of open spaces across the Santa Monica Mountains. The MRCA has continued to maintain the property, and agency records show work at Trebek Open Space over the years, including hillside stabilization and vegetation management. For visitors, the property remains a trail area in the Hollywood Hills, and for the wildlife that moves through the surrounding mountains, the land remains undeveloped space between heavily built parts of Los Angeles.
