Take Action to Protect Tejon Ranch

One of the tragedies on the "deal" is what the environmental groups settled for on Centennial, gave Tejon ranch much more land for development than LA County was willing to give.  The County was requesting that at least 50% of the land be set aside as open space.  This "deal" undercuts the County significantly, when the County was actually TRYING to do some good conservation work.

2) Another thing you can do is write to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and tell them not to issue any permits to harm, injure or kill California condors.  The FWS is currently in the process of trying to do that - to give permission to Tejon ranch to kill condors through granting an "incidental take permit".  The letters/postcard can be sent to:

Mary Grim, 

Section 10 Program Coordinator, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

2800 Cottage Way, W-2605, 

Sacramento, CA 95825

Something along the lines of:

• Please do not issue any permit to kill, harm or harass California condors. 
• Taxpayers and private individuals have spent tens of millions of dollars over a decade to bring the condor back from the brink of extinction. 
• The condor recovery program has been successful.
• It is unprecedented and wrong to allow one condor to be lost, just to allow just another leap-frog urban sprawl development to be built on Tejon Ranch.

Include your name and address, so that it gets into the record.