Reply #53: Treating it as a nature preserve would have accomplished the same goal [View All]

[slackmaster]

I get physically ill when I think about the amount of coastal sage scrub, finger canyons, vernal pools, etc. that have been destroyed for development in the last 40 years.

At this moment I am in a building that sits on a mesa just east of UCSD. When I was in college, there were several very large vernal pools here. During wet winters they would become ponds buzzing with life - Frogs, toads, lizards, snakes, small mammals, birds, and all kinds of interesting plants. There were edible wild onions, puffballs, etc.

Now the asphalt parking lot sinks in several places every time it rains hard.