Helping Our Peninsula's Environment

 

Protecting Rare Wild Peninsula Orchids

 

  • Yadon's Rein Orchids are officially Endangered - in danger of Extinction. 
  • Yadon's Rein Orchids Depend upon our rare and imperiled Monterey Pine Forest Ecosystem. They live almost nowhere else in the world.  
  • Our Native Monterey Pine Forest Ecosystem and the Orchids are threatened by Pebble Beach Company's Golf Course development. It will kill at least 10,000 of the few remaining flowers and 27 acres of its habitat.  
  • Monterey County refuses to recognize or protect Yadon's Rein Orchid habitat as Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area (ESHA) - even though it is protected as ESHA by law.  

 
Coastal Act Section 30240. (a) "Environmentally sensitive habitat areas shall be protected against any significant disruption of habitat values, and only uses dependent on those resources shall be allowed within those areas." 

All habitat for flowers officially listed under the Endangered Species Act is ESHA.

You can make a positive difference to protect our imperiled orchids -- 

  • Today - Call Supervisor David Potter 647-7755 and demand that he call and write his Monterey County Planning Dept to protect our imperiled orchids as required by our Coastal Act.  
  • Today - Call Planning Chief Scott Hennessey 883-7516 and demand that he protect our imperiled orchids as required by our Coastal Act.  

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For more information or to inquire about native Monterey pine forest ecosystem walks call: David Dilworth 831 624 6500, Info(at)1hope.org, or write: Box 1495, Carmel, CA 93921

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