[PCA] WEB: San Diego, fire & shrublands vegetation modification plan

[Olivia Kwong]

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 11:16:19 -0800
From: Richard Halsey

I thought you might be interested in what is going on in California, and
specifically San Diego County regarding the panic over fire and the
knee-jerk response to blame it all on native plants. The county is proposing
to do landscape-scale vegetation modification, targeting mainly shrubland
ecosystems. To give you an overall perspective, I put together a YouTube
video on the matter. It covers the January 9, 2009 Planning Commission
hearing where it was voted 5:1 to forward an extremely controversial
vegetation management plan on to the Board of Supervisors.

Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTUctKbNvfY

The Board will be considering the plan in March.

If interested, you can also download from our website many of the documents
relevant to our efforts to help convince the county to use science to shape
rational land use and fire protection policies:

http://www.californiachaparral.org/csdcountyslashburn.html

I've already engaged the California Native Plant Society in this fight. If
you feel it appropriate, you may distribute this material to anyone else who
might be interested.

Take Care,

Rick Halsey
Director

The California Chaparral Institute
...the voice of the chaparral
www.californiachaparral.org
P.O. Box 545
Escondido, CA  92033