Big Tujunga Wash in Sunland area, City of Los Angeles. Critical Habitat for the recovery of the endangered Arroyo Toad. Important wildlife corridor. Rare upolluted local water source. Rim of the Valley Trail route.

Puma track photo taken in Big Tujunga Wash community of Sunland City of Los Angeles Ca. near residences encroaching into Tujunga wash wildlife migration corridor. Big Tujunga Wash is home to many resident endangered and threatened species as well such as the Arroyo Toad, the Slender Horned Spineflower, Arroyo Chub etcetera. The Big Tujunga River in our community was proposed, and designated as critical Habitat for the recovery of the Arroyo Toad, only to be stripped of the designation by a political hack appointee of the Bush//Cheney administration. This is currently undergoing review by the US FWS in response to a lawsuit filed by the center for biological diversity, who deserve our sincere thanks for standing up for nature on many fronts.

Thanks CBD! Ricky Grubb, environmentalrep@stnc.org .

What good can come of the total removal of nature from such a beautiful site?

Here is a rare and threatened Oscillated Humboldt Lilly from the very site pictured above, now never to bloom again thanks to development clearing the site as seen in the previous photo.

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The residents of this quiet grove of ancient live oak will all be dead one year from today.

What possible purpose can it serve to so utterly destroy these living breathing natural places, all for the convinience of housing development the old fasioned way.

Remember, Nature? We killed it.

Why? Ignorance and lazyness. Ignorance of homebuyers preferences, in that we prefer the area's natural attributes, the ease of caring for native plants as compared to lawns and oleanders, and the wide open views afforded by not having fences dividing us and segregating us from the nature we dearly love.