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Rare Ring-Tail Cat Found in El Monte Valley!

East County Land-Use Watchdogs, Inc is a 501(C)3 public benefit nonprofit under which Save El Monte Valley activities fall. This is the entity we have for raising funds to fight the sand mine and bring awareness to other land use issues in East San Diego County.

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Yesterday, a River Park biologist was tromping around the San Diego River in the El Monte Valley and came upon this creature. It is commonly called a ring-tail cat (Bassariscus astutus). It is a fully protected species in CA and incredibly rare. It has been seen at Mount Woodson, Montezuma Grade and at Mt Laguna. It is also on the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The sighting will be registered with Cal Natural Diversity Database, so its presence in the El Monte Valley will be fully documented. This is great news for the valley. Why? to kill this sand mining project on 480 acres of our beautiful and sacred valley, will take death by 1000 cuts. This is just one more cut, one more species they will have to survey for and will give the wildlife regulatory agencies the tools to say "NO!" and/or force the sand miners into yet more impossibly expensive ways to deal with it. Welcome, little ring-tail. Welcome!!!

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildl…/nongame/t_e_spp/fully_pro.html

The most important thing to do next is communicate with the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.  It will be months before the mine proposal comes up for a vote but meanwhile we need to let them know where we stand. 

The strategy is to bring awareness to people living in those (and all) districts so they will oppose the mine.  Supervisors will listen to their own constituents more than other folks, so we need your help to  spread the word all over San Diego County.The people in all districts should be ON FIRE to oppose the mine and write to their supervisors. 

You can help in three ways:

1.  Write to your District Supervisor

2.  Talk/Text/Facebook or use any other means to tell your local friends and family to write to their Supervisors.

3.  Please consider a donation to our cause, using the button on the right, so we can spread the word far and wide. It will take funding to do this right! Please help us! Thank you!

Supervisor contact info can be found at this link:

https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/general/bos.html