Unless the public and community-spirited business maintain a tight front to stem the tide of misplanned development, San Diego will forever lose this magnificent wilderness and with it its healthy environment and only natural water source. Another East Los Angeles will be born with all the horrors of crime waves, grid-locked traffic, more freeways, and a permanent end to the Golden State legend. The answer to this urgent problem is to buy property rights at fair prices. Let's face it. Only money can answer the absolute value vested into private property by contemporary society.
Money alone can stem the tide of destruction and preserve California's way of life.
We ask all citizens and all businesses in Southern California to help, even as we ask across the nation and as far as Europe to save one of the most beautiful and most endangered regions on earth. UEF's protection must gradually embrace the entire Peninsular Range Ecosystem by a strategy of continuous acquisitions, disseminating free environmental education, and active and generous public support. It's not impossible. It's going to be hard, but unless we think about it, it's not going to happen. Otherwise eventually, I'm afraid, we'll lose the mountain lions in Southern California and that part of our mystery, of our wildness.