What remains of Teddy's gift to California now needs uncompromising and permanent protection. Unless we act immediately, in just a few years this wilderness may be entirely lost to encroaching urban development. Today we still enjoy majestic stands of cedar and fir bordering fragrant green meadows where scented multicolored wildflowers bloom in spring. Live oaks set up a blaze in autumn that flickers over a backdrop of pines. Foxes bark and deer silently cross fields half hidden in the morning mist.
Golden eagles soar in the blue sky over the bountiful home of mountain lions.
Cleveland Forest shelters one of America's greatest diversity of wildlife and flora thriving only a few miles from urban life. Such a glorious setting practically in San Diego's own backyard is a treasure worth defending. The aim of UEF's Cleveland National Forest Conservation Fund is to implement as rapidly as possible the 1993 voters' mandate to protect the Cleveland Forest by pursuing acquisition of habitat, wildlife corridors, and, wherever possible, re-opening those migration trails that have been obstructed. Southern California's way of life and beauty depends on the health of our environment. Please help generously.