Via Center for Biological Diversity:

Preserve Tejon Ranch as a new Natural Park

Please take action today to help preserve southern California’s largest and most valuable unprotected natural area, Tejon Ranch.

Located between Los Angeles and Bakersfield near the Interstate 5 “Grapevine,” the 271,000-acre Tejon Ranch embodies a diverse, natural California landscape and is home to the critically endangered California condor. From ancient oak groves to forests of Joshua trees and Pinyon pines, Tejon Ranch represents the quintessential California natural landscape. Tejon also contains many Native American cultural and sacred sites and is steeped in California history.

The current property owner, Tejon Ranch Company, is aggressively pursuing construction of a series of large-scale developments that would become the cornerstone for unchecked urban sprawl from Los Angeles to Bakersfield to Lancaster. The developments would carve out Tejon’s natural heart, jeopardize the California condor, and bring bulldozers, smog and gridlock to one of southern California’s last, relatively untouched rural landscapes.

To preserve Tejon’s natural and cultural heritage for future generations, the Center for Biological Diversity is campaigning for the protection of Tejon Ranch as a new National Park or State Park.

Click here to learn more.

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This entry was posted on Friday, July 28th, 2006 at 5:47 pm and is filed under Action Alerts, Environmental Issues, from Center for Biological Diversity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.