EHL made the news in regard to a San Diego development and in a story about vanishing alluvial fans and their wildlife.
In its August edition, East County Magazine covered a major court decision blocking an end-run around a voter initiative (“Judge rules against Santee’s Fanita Ranch; City mulls appeal”). The beautiful Fanita Ranch shelters coastal sage scrub, riparian habitat, and endangered species in a large block of land. EHL and other groups have worked for decades to protect it. The article quoted EHL.
Meanwhile, the plaintiffs said the judge got it right. “We are pleased that the court saw through this transparent end run on the rights of Santee voters,” said Dan Silver, director of Endangered Habitats League. “Future development proposals for this property need to be submitted to the voters.”
National Public Radio station KPCC/LAist based in Pasadena covered EHL’s effort save and restore the remaining floodplains coming off the San Gabriel and San Jacinto Mountains. In a Sept. 15, 2024 broadcast and online story titled, “This endangered kangaroo rat needs floods to survive. A new agreement may save it,” it described the unique natural history of the San Bernardino kangaroo rat and a precedent-setting agreement that will restore its habitat in the upper Santa Ana River.
EHL’s Dan Silver spoke of the broader implications of the agreement between it, the Center for Biological Diversity, and public agencies.
“These flood control districts and the water districts are becoming more environmentally conscious,” Silver said. “We need these infrastructure agencies to step up to the environmental challenges and try to improve things, particularly when the infrastructure caused damage in the first place. It's part of a cultural shift that's ongoing, and we think that our settlement agreement can accelerate that.”
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