Sunday, May 21, 2028

Stop the Ronald Reagan Equestrian Campground and RV Park


Malibu Creek State Park is planning to convert a scenic meadow in a protected corridor to an RV park/Equestrian Campground for a few well heeled special interest groups. Please help me stop them.

Tell your friends NOT to donate to the Reagan Equestrian Campground. Donate to save abandoned horses not to destroy the environment.

Last year the Los Angeles County shelter took in 188 abandoned horses. We support the Los Angeles County animal shelter and horse adoption.

Save the Reagan Meadow for everyone to use!

Why does the State Park Service restrict mountain bike use of trails while it promotes equestrian use? Equestrian use is more damaging to the environment. Click here to see a study of impacts by various groups on fragile trail systems. We support equal access to all trails by equestrians, mountain bikers, and hikers.
Posted by ted fulton at 3:17 PM

7 comments:

  2. Letter sent to Scenic America:
    Mr. Brad Cownover,

    I am writing to enlist your organization's support to protect one of California's most famous scenic drives: Mulholland Highway. The state is attempting to erect an unsightly 7 acre equestrian campground and RV park in a scenic meadow once owned by Ronald Reagan directly adjacent to Mulholland Highway (a designated scenic highway). Below is the view that will forever be mared:


    You can read further details at my website if you think your organization would be interested in helping to protect this scenic drive. http://www.savethemeadow.blogspot.com/

    Best Regards

    Ted Fulton

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  3. Mike,

    Thank you for contacting Santa Monica Baykeeper. The Reagan Equine Park is on our radar and we are looking into the issues it will cause to the watershed.

    Please let me know if you have any other questions.

    Heather Burdick
    Watershed Programs Assistant

    We Moved!
    Our new address is:
    Santa Monica Baykeeper
    120 Broadway, Suite 105
    Santa Monica, CA 90401
    Phone: 310-305-9645 ext. 105 Fax: 310-305-7985

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  4. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Yes I spend lots of time in the open space and do my best to preserve it and educate people who go there.


    With the state in such a financial crisis I suspect that public funds will not be adequate to support this. Any idea on how much has been raised to date? Will the State match private funds? I also noticed you have asked that any emails be cc'ed to Ruth Gerson. I know Ruth through the Santa Monica Mountain Trails council. What is her role related to this project?


    Thanks,
    Howard

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  5. Comparing relative impacts of various trail user groups

    A summary of research and studies on factors that affect trails management strategy and determining uses for each trail.

    By Woody Keen
    www.traildynamics.com

    I am a professional trail builder based in NC and as such I see the relative impacts of all user groups on a very regular basis. I recently researched and made comments on this issue for a local state forest recreational plan and you may use these comments and review of the research in your efforts there. You will find my comments below comparing the relative impacts of horses vs. bikes, I hope this is helpful. Please let me know if I can answer any other questions for you.
    Poor design, such as this steep fall-line trail, causes erosion more than any particular use (Miwok Trail in Marin County, CA)

    Comparing relative impacts of various trail user groups: The EA document introduces the concept that different user groups have varying levels of physical impacts on trails noting that hiking and biking have similar impacts while horse use has significantly higher impacts.

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  6. Building mars scenic area
    For 13 years I have lived along the Mulholland Scenic Corridor, a two-lane blacktop that travels through some of the grandest scenery in the Santa Monica Mountains.
    One Mulholland vista is now blighted by a massive structure at the highway's junction with Sierra Creek Road, rumored to be a house of worship but being built along the lines of the Mall of America. Years have passed and it's still under construction. It has put a blot on the skyline as a dominant, incompatible monstrosity in place of what previously had been a tree-shaded knoll and view to an expanse of the innocent blue heavens. The scope of the project and its location in the middle of a bucolic burg defies reason.
    And now in the opposite direction a houselike structure has been framed atop the ridge that forms the panoramic view of mountains from the scenic highway. Except for a few slender inconspicuous communications towers long entrenched atop Castro Peak, there is not a single building to mar the entire breadth of this ridgeline.
    It is one of the last great works of nature's wild art to be viewed in our area: a rugged buttress against civilization comprised of sandstone outcroppings and chaparral-covered flanks, crowning a valley inhabited by varied wildlife.
    There are sensible building plans and insensible ones. Gloria Agoura Hills

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  7. we now have a website:

    www.savethemeadow.com

    add your comments there (use the contact us button)

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