Why are the Puente-Chino Hills and the Wildlife Corridor so important?
BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDORCONSIDERABLE INVESTMENT ALREADY MADE IN THE AREA
SIGNIFICANCE TO THE REGION
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BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR
- This ecosystem is a global "Hot Spot of Diversity" - one of the world's most biologically rich and threatened regions.
- Numerous federally listed endangered species exist in these lands. In addition, many rare species are present, including a remnant population of the rare Tecate Cypress tree that once covered most of the southwestern United States.
- This hillside system is a "Missing Linkage" as delineated in study released in 2001 by The Nature Conservancy, the San Diego Zoological Society, State Parks, and others.
- Much of this landscape is part of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service designated "critical habitat" for California coastal gnatcatchers.
- Nearly 5,000 acres lie within Los Angeles County Significant Ecological Area #15 and the Department of Fish and Game's Significant Natural Area #94.
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CONSIDERABLE INVESTMENT ALREADY MADE IN THE AREA
Chino Hills (East End of the Wildlife Corridor):
- Army Corps of Engineer's Habitat Conservation Area of the Santa Ana River
- Chino Hills State Park
- City of Yorba Linda's Brush Canyon
- Cleveland National Forest
- Coal Canyon Ecological Reserve
- Orange County Central Coastal NCCP Lands
- Featherly Regional Park
- Water Canyon Natural Reserve
- Los Angeles County Schabarum Park
- Whittier Open Space Acquisitions
- Powder Canyon
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SIGNIFICANCE TO THE REGION
- This land connects trail systems from Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties for hikers, bicyclists, and equestrians.
- 14 million Californians who live within one hour's drive of the land will have easy access to the beauty and spiritual gifts of these natural lands.
- Citizens, legislators, and local elected officials have worked together for 25 years and have already saved 17,000 acres.
- As an island of beauty and biological value in a sea of urbanization, they provide visual and psychological relief to a stressed urbanized and congested region which does not have its fair share of parks and open space.