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Sup­port the San Gabriel Moun­tains National Park Ser­vice Study pro­posal to incor­po­rate the San Gabriel Moun­tains as a national park in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. Meet with us & the NPS.

by The Com­mu­nity Hik­ing Club, Santa Clarita

What: Please attend a Meet­ing to Pro­tect the San Gabriel Moun­tains and help turn it into a National Recre­ation Area.

When: Sep­tem­ber 3 (see below for meet­ing dates in other areas)

Time: 7 – 9 PM

Where: George A. Car­avalho Activ­i­ties Cen­ter, Santa Clarita Room A
20880 Cen­tre Point Park­way, Santa Clarita, CA 91350

The National Park Ser­vice has drafted a spe­cial resources study with 3 bold alter­na­tives. The alter­na­tives include a pro­posal to incor­po­rate our local San Gabriel Moun­tains into a new National Recre­ation Area (NRA). An NRA could mean great things for the San Gabriels. The National Park Ser­vice (NPS) wants to hear what you have to say. With­out your pos­i­tive input, these pro­pos­als do not stand a chance of going forward.

Come and help make the San Gabriel Moun­tains a National Recre­ation Area!

We need you to arrive at 6:30 PM to receive our information/comments, and a lapel sticker to show your sup­port. The NPS will be mak­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion begin­ning at 7:00 PM, fol­lowed by a chance for pub­lic comment.

If the National Recre­ation Area pro­posal is to have any chance of becom­ing a real­ity, we need your sup­port at the Santa Clarita pub­lic meet­ing on Thurs­day, Sept. 3rd.  An NRA would bet­ter pro­tect the San Gabriel Moun­tains back coun­try, improve water qual­ity, con­nect com­mu­ni­ties to the moun­tains and improve recre­ational access with a new urban parks and trails system.

The draft “San Gabriel Water­shed and Moun­tains Spe­cial Resources Study” has found that the San Gabriel Moun­tains are nation­ally sig­nif­i­cant, which means that they are eli­gi­ble for more fed­eral resources and rangers. The moun­tain range could be incor­po­rated in a new San Gabriel Moun­tains National Recre­ation Area, a very spe­cial des­ig­na­tion that other moun­tain ranges like the Santa Mon­ica Moun­tains have ben­e­fited from since 1978.

Oppo­nents of these pro­pos­als will no doubt be there, too, includ­ing peo­ple who want to see more motor­cy­cle and jeep trails in our for­est back country—so we need you to be there so our voices are heard!

This pro­posal could help bring new recre­ational resources to the his­tor­i­cally under-funded Ange­les National For­est.  Recre­ational oppor­tu­ni­ties such as wilder­ness hik­ing; fish­ing and pic­nick­ing could see a tremen­dous boost with this new study, please visit http://www.nps.gov/pwro/sangabriel/ for more back­ground and details.

Addi­tional meetings:

• El Monte
  Mon­day, August 31st
  7pm — 9pm
  City of El Monte Senior Cen­ter
  3120 N. Tyler Avenue

• Dia­mond Bar
  Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 2nd
  7pm — 9pm
  Dia­mond Bar Cen­ter Ball­room
  1600 S. Grand Avenue

• Santa Clarita
  Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 3rd
  7pm — 9pm
  George A. Car­avalho Activ­i­ties Cen­ter
  Santa Clarita Room A
  20880 Cen­tre Point Parkway

• Glen­dora
  Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 14th
  7pm — 9pm
  Glen­dora Pub­lic Library
  140 South Glen­dora Avenue

• Palm­dale
  Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 15th
  7pm — 9pm
  Larry Chim­bole Cul­tural Cen­ter, Lilac Room
  38350

Link to National Park Ser­vice study for the future San Gabriel Mountains

Com­ment forms: In 1st para­graph of open­ing page, click on “newslet­ter #4″ link.

• On-line: In left col­umn, last link is an on-line form. Please fill out form and submit.
• Print: At the bot­tom, there is a link “Com­ment Form, Newslet­ter #4″ PDF file. Please fill out form and mail in.

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