Environmental Press # 201

Subj: FTSP: Voice of the Trabuco Canyon Oaks
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:09:20 -0800
From: Doug Korthof <doug@seal-beach.org>
To: voiceforveterans@aol.com (via SaveOaks@orange-county.net)

INFORMATIONAL PICKETING SATURDAY, FEB. 8, 2003 1:00 P.M. AND ON

Where: Cook's Corner, El Toro Rd. and Live Oak Canyon Rd. When: There will be people on-site from 11:00 A.M. setting up Issue: Struggling against odds to force developers to build around the ancient oaks instead of tearing them down and replanting -- killing the rural character of the canyon, in the opinion of many.

Directions: From the 5 Golden State FWY south, get off at El Toro Road. Go East (toward the mountains), a left turn from the exit. Proceed about 9 miles to the end of El Toro Rd., at "COOK'S CORNER", a favorite visting place for those seeking respite from the stress and grind of overcrowded, fetid city life -- if only on the weekends!

It is pleasant, clean air, and placid, and you will spend some time in the presence of open space. O'Neill Regional Park is only 6 miles away down the narrow Live Oak Road, lined with a canopy of brilliant Oak Trees.

 

  

In this time of death for the pine trees of Big Bear and Arrowhead, can we afford to kill 493 ancient Oaks (with hundreds more on the chopping block later on) that are healthy, fine and beautiful?

OC Stupervisors approved plans that call for Oak destruction, followed by "replanting" of young Oaks. What if they don't grow? What if the Oak death, or some other ill, strikes? Who will regret the unnecessary loss of so many healthy trees?

The Supes, and the developer, could just as easily (and maybe far more profitably) build AMONG the trees, instead of tearing them out and replanting. That's what planning is all about.

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Thanks for all the interest in saving the Foothill/Trabuco Specific Plan from the evil supes, who want to amend it into extinction.

Last Saturday's informational picketing (the first) went well, over-achieving ALL the goals. Door-to-door did not happen this week, but soon!

/Doug

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