Environmental Press # 224

Subj: Saddlecreek project threatens nature's paradise
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:14:33 -0700
From: Doug Korthof <doug@seal-beach.org>
To: voiceforveterans@aol.com (via SaveOaks@orange-county.net)

RE: SAVING TRABUCO OAKS FROM CUT-AND-FILL SADDLECREEK DEVELOPMENT

Hi,

Pictures of the some of the wildflowers and plants of the area targeted for destruction by the project are on

http://Orange-County.net/paradise

You can add to the bottom, but a password is required to update the caption on each picture.

In the paradise that is Trabuco, these plants exist now in a balance and pattern that is the way it's supposed to be -- each plant supports others, and the insects and creatures that need to be there -- in a pattern developed over the centuries.

 

Yet this magnificent 200+ acres is to be destroyed, with this intricate natural mechanism ignored and unknown as "just foliage" by relentless bulldozers.

Defenders of the Oaks are only asking that the building be done respecting this incredibly complicated web of life. "cut and fill" grading of the site would clog up and destroy seasonal streams of the US and destroy more than 492 Oaks.

Yet paradis could be preserved. The intricate mechanism could be left, the houses could be built in harmony with the wildflowers and creatures, and we would all be better off in the long run.

/Doug

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