EHL Newsletter, Winter 2011 Vol 21 No 1

Years in the making, a legal settlement of our 2003 lawsuit over the County’s General Plan Update has been finalized, with significant benefits for good planning.

Benefiting wetlands and uplands, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) has green-lighted six habitat restoration efforts as part of Measure M. .

Braving expanses of urban development, the threatened California gnatcatcher – the bird on EHL’s logo – was sighted near Marina Del Rey for the first time since the 1880’s.

The media covered the San Diego County General Plan Update and, in the Inland Empire, the fate of two endangered species.

Alpenblume

One free unbidden blossom opened out
beyond the garden’s better tended bed