Fall 2019 (PDF – 780 KB)Highlights: Why Cougars Count Madrona Esperanza Hills Puente Hills Preserve Grows We Lost a Friend (Judy Hathaway Francis) Park Hours Change 104 Year Fire Study Released
Several projects near Chino Hills State Park and the Puente Hills Habitat Preservation Authority lands have had impacts to the California gnatcatcher and its habitat. It is nice to see the law is being upheld. Read the EarthJustice article.
Fun Facts about Coast Live Oaks: These large evergreen trees have a short trunk with numerous large, crooked, spreading branches. They can also be wider than they are tall. The fact that oaks have crooked spreading branches in part saved them from being harvested because builders like long straight wood.
Hills For Everyone updates regularly its base map for the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor. This map outlines the status of lands in the 31 mile long Wildlife Corridor, including existing publicly and privately protected natural lands, properties privately owned, threatened and proposed developments. Download the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor Map as a PDF.
Wow. This was a complete about face for the courts. The Matrix Oil project decision, which had been stopped in the court, was just reversed. The old contract between Whittier and Matrix is expired. This decision allows the oil company and the City to renegotiate a new contract and specific terms for oil drilling in the Puente Hills Preserve. Read the Whittier Daily News article.