This e-newsletter covers how the State Park bill moved through the Natural Resources Committee today and how volunteers remove barbed wire in the Park. Also, we encourage you to get involved with the Housing Element updates in your community! Check out our March E-Newsletter.
Yesterday we participated in a virtual workshop put on by the state that will use Nature Based Solutions to meet California’s climate goals and the Governor’s goal of protecting 30% of our lands and waters by 2030. Nature Based Solutions include: land acquisition, restoration, adding trees in urban areas, etc. We have received grant funding to be engaged in the 30×30 campaign for SoCal–and yes, we have big plans for 2021. Stay tuned.
Our conservation work requires a lot of partnerships at the local, regional, state, and federal level. We were deeply appreciative of the letter we received yesterday from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the 320 acre acquisition we helped facilitate earlier this year. The Service’s funding was instrumental to this success. Your support, and the support of all of our partners, makes this work possible.
We have another announcement coming later today, but we thought we’d share some OTHER good news. Yesterday, the President signed the “Great American Outdoors Act” and contained within that is the (now fully funded) Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). This legislation was support by both houses (Senate and House) and had bi-partisan (Republicans and Democrats) support too! The money in LWCF supports national parks, forests, and other public lands. Chino Hills State Park has been the recipient of LWCF dollars in … Read More
Thanks so much to Steve Scauzillo for his piece on the 320-acre acquisition from mid-week. He did an extensive interview with both Claire Schlotterbeck and Melanie Schlotterbeck. Check it out! Check out the Press Enterprise article.