Thanks to the Sierra Club, hundreds of Post Cards have been printed, urging the Coastal Commission to protect the Monterey Pine Forest.

Contact Mark Massara, Director of the Club's Coastal Program, Tel: # 805-895-0963 to obtain post cards, or use the messages on these post cards or in your letter or cards to the Chairman of the Coastal Commission at Stanford.


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New Spanish Bay Golf Rrnge
 
Clint Eastwood and Pebble Beach Company propose to cut down this 33-acre Monterey Pine Forest adjacent to the Inn at Spanish Bay (upper portion of photo) in order to construct a golf driving range (left of the roadway) and housing units (right of the roadway). The project will require that thousands of Monterey Pine Trees and Coast Live Oak Trees be destroyed, along with rare and endangered and legally protected forest orchids, wetlands and wildlife. You can help save one of the last intact portions of the native Del Monte Monterey Pine Forest by contacting the California Coastal Commission at Tel: # 831-427-4863 or write this message to the California Coastal Commission.
Photo: Ken Adelman, 2005
TO:
Meg Caldwell, Chair,
California Coastal Commission
Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way,
Owen House Room 6
Stanford, CA 94305


 

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Pine Forest

TO:
Meg Caldwell, Chair,
California Coastal Commission
Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way,
Owen House Room 6
Stanford, CA 94305-8610


As an activist with the Sierra club's 5,000 member Great Coastal Places Campaign, I am concerned about the fate of the largest remaining Monterey Pine forest in the world.

The Pebble Beach Company plans to build another local golf course in The Forest, breaking their promise from the early 80's. To accomplish this, they propose to cut down 15,000 threatened Monterey Pine trees. So much of this rare forest has already been lost to development that it deserves to be protected as an Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area.

Native Monterey pine forests are already threatened. The Pebble Beach Company should not be permitted to devastate these coastal woodlands that symbolize our great shoreline for yet another unneeded golf course. With less than a third of the original Monterey Pine forests habitat remaining., we must actively protect the rest from development.

I urge you to protect our beautiful forest and ensure our coastal legacy for future generations.

Sincerely,

Name ___________________________________________

Address ______________________________________________________________________

Phone # ____________________________

Sierra Club Ventanna Chapter . . . http://www.ventana.sierraclub.org/current/index.shtml

Sierra Club's Great Coastal Places - Hotbox issues. . . http://www.sierraclub.org/ca/coasts/hotbox/pebble.asp