EHL Newsletter, EHL Newsletter • Fall 2014

On September 23, 2014, the State Water Quality Control Board upheld the legal basis for the Regional Water Board’s denial of a water quality permit and provided guidance for finalizing that decision.

As a consequence of EHL’s marshaling of scientific evidence, a peer review panel issued a critical report on the Vegetation Treatment Program, triggering a revision.

In reducing densities in habitat lands and in expanding Significant Ecological Areas, the Update is on the right track. But the draft ordinance to protect these resources remains severely flawed.

In response to ill-conceived new regulations proposed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to implement the Endangered Species Act, EHL pointed out ways to improve.

Hilltopping

Yesterday, lured to a hill’s heights, I looked
           where the Sun