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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:36:27 -0700
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From: "Yard, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: California Fish and Game Action - Tujunga Wash
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The California Department of Fish and Game has issued a
restrictive Streambed Alteration Permit for the Tujunga Wash.
This permit ( #5-003-99 ) would effectively protect the many
rare and endangered species in the Wash, including the
federally and state listed slender-horned spineflower,
and the Santa Ana sucker. The proposed Red Tail Golf course
threatens the spineflower through habitat destruction, and the
Santa Ana sucker through the leaching of pesticides, herbicides,
and nitrates into the Los Angeles River. ( Often golf courses
are built on a strata of clay; it may take years for golf course
pollutants to move through this clay layer, during which time
the nitrates and pesticides may degrade. The Red Tail Golf
Course will be built on the sand and gravel floodplain of the
LA river) .
The California Fish and Game position is that the damage
done to the Wash by the construction of the golf course is so severe
that it cannot be mitigated. If upheld, this will be a historic
step forward for the Department, which to my knowledge has never
taken such an agressive stance towards species' endangerment.
The Red Tail Golf Course has appealed the Fish and game action
to an arbitration, which will be held in July, 1999. Comments of support
can be addressed to
Mary Nichols
Secretary, Resources Agency, State of California
1416 Ninth Street
Sacramento, California
Robert C. Hight
Director, California Department of Fish and Game
1416 9th Street, 12th floor
Sacramento, California
John Yard
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