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2019 Recap Video

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on January 30, 2020 with No Comments

Hills For Everyone focuses its efforts on the preservation of the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor. This video captures some of the highlights of our work from 2019 including release of our updated Wildfire Study, aerial tours of hills, education campaigns with elected officials, and engagement on landscape level wildlife corridors. It also covers some of the land use challenges we faced like Esperanza Hills, Hidden Oaks, and the Prado Raceway. In 2020, we are focused on acquisitions, reducing wildfire ignitions, … Read More

Fall 2019 Newsletter Out

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on November 1, 2019 with No Comments

Check out the Fall 2019 Newsletter. It covers: Why Cougars Count Madrona Esperanza Hills Puente Hills Preserve Grows We Lost a Friend (Judy Hathaway Francis) Park Hours Change 104 Year Fire Study Released Send us an email with your name and complete address to receive our mailed newsletters. We send about two newsletters a year.

Interview on Esperanza Hills

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on October 19, 2019 with No Comments

This week we did an interview with two students from California State University, Fullerton on the Esperanza Hills project. Our team work with Protect Our Homes and Hills continues! Here they are setting up the story.

Response to Opinion Piece

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 16, 2019 with No Comments

Here is another letter to the editor that you may not have seen in response to the September 4 OC Register article. It was submitted by Brea resident Eric Johnson. The boogeyman in this battle over Esperanza Hills is not the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Very few lawsuits are actually filed under CEQA: less than 1% of projects subject to CEQA review are actually challenged in court. To say that CEQA stops projects is flat out wrong. The law … Read More

Letter to Editor: Esperanza Hills

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 11, 2019 with No Comments

In response to the September 3, 2019 OC Register article on Esperanza Hills, Hills For Everyone Executive Director Claire Schlotterbeck penned this Letter to the Editor: The recent Op-Ed by the Register misrepresents concerns about the proposed Esperanza Hills project above Yorba Linda. It is all about wildfire risks. Our group founded Chino Hills State Park, 50% of the project site borders the Park’s permanent wildlands– escalating the fire risk to habitat and homes. The 2008 Freeway Complex Fire burned … Read More