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California CoastWatcher December 2005
CW Dec. 2005 and Introduction
California CoastWatcher
December 2005
Sierra Club Activists
Prepare to Deliver Monterey Pine Trees and
Thousands of Hand Inscribed Ornaments Urging Coastal Commissioners
to Protect Monterey Pine Forests from the Pebble Beach Co.
December 15, 2005
Thousands of Hand Inscribed Ornaments Urging Coastal Commissioners
to Protect Monterey Pine Forests from the Pebble Beach Co.
December 15, 2005
California CoastWatcher is a monthly Internet
publication regarding proceedings of the California Coastal Commission and news
of protection and loss of coastal resources in California. CoastWatcher is a
publication of the Sierra Club’s California Coastal Program.
The California Coastal Commission met in San Francisco from December 14-16, 2005.
For pictures of the entire California coast, from the November 2005 going back over 30 years, go to www.californiacoastline.org
For staff reports, agendas, analysis of development proposals and information regarding the California Coastal Commission, go to www.coastal.ca.gov
For the California Coastal Act, go to http://www.coastal.ca.gov/ccatc.html
Del Monte Forest Pictures. See what may soon be lost- pictures of the 17,000 Monterey Pine trees and entire forests that Pebble Beach Company (Monterey Co.) wants to destroy for new a golf course, driving range, resort rooms and facilities and 33 mansions at CoastWatcher’sDelMonteForestPics. For more information regarding this project - one of the most environmentally destructive ever proposed for the California coast - go to www.sierraclub.org/ca/coasts/
Del Monte Forest News. On June 10 Monterey County formally notified and transferred to the California Coastal Commission documents related to their approval of Pebble Company’s proposal to cut down 17,000 trees for golf and mansions. The project is set to be reviewed by the Coastal Commission at their March 2006 hearing. For more information, go to www.savepebblebeach.com or http://www.cr-pb.org/
To examine the conservation voting records of the entire 12-member California Coastal Commission over the last five years, go to
2000CCCvotechart or
2001CCCvotechart
2002CCCvotechart
2003CCCvotechart
2004CCCvotechart
To join Sierra Club’s Great Coastal Places Campaign or to subscribe or review past issues of California CoastWatcher or learn more about coastal destruction and protection in California, go to www.sierraclub.org/ca/coasts/.
Sierra Club Coastal Programs Director Mark Massara and coastal activists presenting Monterey Pine Holiday trees to members of the California Coastal Commission on December 15, 2005
On Thursday, December 15th Sierra Club activists with the statewide Great Coastal Places Campaign made a holiday presentation to the California Coastal Commission. In an effort to highlight a proposal by the Pebble Beach Company to cut down 17,000 threatened Monterey pine trees for another Pebble Beach golf course, Sierra Club members presented each commissioner with a small, potted Monterey pine Christmas tree. Each tree was decorated with some of 1,200 hand-written notes/ ornaments from concerned residents from throughout the state, all urging the protection of the Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area (ESHA) that makes up the Del Monet Forest.
The trees were hung with notes/ ornaments from residents within each of the Commissioner’s home districts (we also presented many ornaments submitted by inland coastal activists from Fresno, Bakersfield, Concord, and Nevada City among many other places)
The Commission will make decisions about the fate of this forest early next year, in what will be one of the most important coastal protection decisions in many years. As if it were not enough, the Monterey pines and all the plants and animals that call the forest home are threatened not only by the loss of 17,000 trees. The remaining trees left standing would also be at increased risk of pitch canker disease which can be fatal to Montery pines.
Great Coastal Places members traveled from throughout the state, coming to the Bay area from Monterey, San Francisco, Marin, San Clemente, Long Beach and San Luis Obispo in order to demonstrate the statewide concern for forest protection and to show the Commissioners that people in their own back yards were equally committed to protecting this threatened forest.
As Great Coastal Places Chair, Tarren Collins said in her testimony before the Commission, “We hope when you return home to your families and the holidays that you will take a moment to read some of the insightful comments from your neighbors and constituents and realize that there is no greater holiday gift you can offer to future generations than a protected Monterey pine forest.”
CONTENTS:
1. Coastal Commission Requires Feds to Continue to Funding Catalina Bald Eagle Program
2. Commission Moves to Protect Pacifica Bowl in Unanimous 9-0 Vote
3. Commission Narrowly Approves Destruction of Historic Buildings in San Diego
4. Desalting the Ocean - Periodic Update
5. SoCal Alert: 2 Coastal Development Projects Threaten Destruction in Orange and San Diego Counties in 2006
The California Coastal Commission met in San Francisco from December 14-16, 2005.
For pictures of the entire California coast, from the November 2005 going back over 30 years, go to www.californiacoastline.org
For staff reports, agendas, analysis of development proposals and information regarding the California Coastal Commission, go to www.coastal.ca.gov
For the California Coastal Act, go to http://www.coastal.ca.gov/ccatc.html
Del Monte Forest Pictures. See what may soon be lost- pictures of the 17,000 Monterey Pine trees and entire forests that Pebble Beach Company (Monterey Co.) wants to destroy for new a golf course, driving range, resort rooms and facilities and 33 mansions at CoastWatcher’sDelMonteForestPics. For more information regarding this project - one of the most environmentally destructive ever proposed for the California coast - go to www.sierraclub.org/ca/coasts/
Del Monte Forest News. On June 10 Monterey County formally notified and transferred to the California Coastal Commission documents related to their approval of Pebble Company’s proposal to cut down 17,000 trees for golf and mansions. The project is set to be reviewed by the Coastal Commission at their March 2006 hearing. For more information, go to www.savepebblebeach.com or http://www.cr-pb.org/
To examine the conservation voting records of the entire 12-member California Coastal Commission over the last five years, go to
2000CCCvotechart or
2001CCCvotechart
2002CCCvotechart
2003CCCvotechart
2004CCCvotechart
To join Sierra Club’s Great Coastal Places Campaign or to subscribe or review past issues of California CoastWatcher or learn more about coastal destruction and protection in California, go to www.sierraclub.org/ca/coasts/.
Sierra Club Coastal Programs Director Mark Massara and coastal activists presenting Monterey Pine Holiday trees to members of the California Coastal Commission on December 15, 2005
On Thursday, December 15th Sierra Club activists with the statewide Great Coastal Places Campaign made a holiday presentation to the California Coastal Commission. In an effort to highlight a proposal by the Pebble Beach Company to cut down 17,000 threatened Monterey pine trees for another Pebble Beach golf course, Sierra Club members presented each commissioner with a small, potted Monterey pine Christmas tree. Each tree was decorated with some of 1,200 hand-written notes/ ornaments from concerned residents from throughout the state, all urging the protection of the Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area (ESHA) that makes up the Del Monet Forest.
The trees were hung with notes/ ornaments from residents within each of the Commissioner’s home districts (we also presented many ornaments submitted by inland coastal activists from Fresno, Bakersfield, Concord, and Nevada City among many other places)
The Commission will make decisions about the fate of this forest early next year, in what will be one of the most important coastal protection decisions in many years. As if it were not enough, the Monterey pines and all the plants and animals that call the forest home are threatened not only by the loss of 17,000 trees. The remaining trees left standing would also be at increased risk of pitch canker disease which can be fatal to Montery pines.
Great Coastal Places members traveled from throughout the state, coming to the Bay area from Monterey, San Francisco, Marin, San Clemente, Long Beach and San Luis Obispo in order to demonstrate the statewide concern for forest protection and to show the Commissioners that people in their own back yards were equally committed to protecting this threatened forest.
As Great Coastal Places Chair, Tarren Collins said in her testimony before the Commission, “We hope when you return home to your families and the holidays that you will take a moment to read some of the insightful comments from your neighbors and constituents and realize that there is no greater holiday gift you can offer to future generations than a protected Monterey pine forest.”
CONTENTS:
1. Coastal Commission Requires Feds to Continue to Funding Catalina Bald Eagle Program
2. Commission Moves to Protect Pacifica Bowl in Unanimous 9-0 Vote
3. Commission Narrowly Approves Destruction of Historic Buildings in San Diego
4. Desalting the Ocean - Periodic Update
5. SoCal Alert: 2 Coastal Development Projects Threaten Destruction in Orange and San Diego Counties in 2006
Posted: Wed - December 28, 2005 at 02:53 PM