CHAPTER-WIDE CAMPAIGNS

Save the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor

For more information or to see how you can be involved, contact Eric Johnson, Chair, Puente-Chino Hills Task Force, at
(714) 524-7763.  More information can also be found at http://www.savethewildlifecorridor.org/. 

The Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor is an unbroken chain of plant and wildlife habitat which extends nearly 31 miles from the Cleveland National Forest in Orange County to the west end of the Puente Hills above Whittier Narrows in Los Angeles County.  These hills lie at the juncture of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties and represent the largest intact native habitat of its size in the urban Los Angeles Basin.

Regional efforts to save the Corridor have been underway for 25 years, and conservationists have been very successful.  In the western part of the corridor, nearly 4,000 acres have been purchased as open space.  In the east, 13,000 acres have been set aside as Chino Hills State Park.  The entire hillside system is now connected to the Cleveland National Forest at Coal Canyon. 

The long-term goal of the Puente-Chino Hills Task Force of the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter is to permanently protect this unique and disappearing landscape as open space for the public and as habitat for wildlife that increasingly have nowhere to go in urbanized southern California.  The short-term goal is to protect the 7,000 acres of wildlife corridor land known as the "Missing Middle" - currently threatened by major development projects.  Three of the four property owners in this area are major oil companies.

The Puente-Chino Hills Task Force of the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter is currently advocating its vision of a protected, connected wildlife corridor and regional park.