The Kern County Planning Commission has approved development plans for an exclusive gated community featuring luxury homes, golf courses, and hotels in the middle of designated California condor habitat. Thanks to an elaborate marketing and PR campaign by Tejon Ranch Company (TRC), a massive development project in the heart of California condor habitat has been given the green light by the Kern County Planning Commission. ‘Tejon Preserve’ – a PR smokescreen? It appears that Tejon Preserve is essentially TRC’s mandatory […]
Tag: California
Condor Series 2009 (part 2 of 3): Condor-Killing Development Company Receives California Conservation Award?
Tejon Ranch Company (TRC) has received the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) for their PR scheme designed to distract the public from their condor-killing real estate development plans. Apparently, in Schwarzenegger’s California, the development of a luxury mountain resort in the middle of designated California condor habitat is somehow construed as protecting the environment. The “Tejon Ranch Conservation and Land Use Agreement” – winner of the GLEEC – is actually a deal that was cut with several large […]
Condor Series 2009 (part 1 of 3): Tejon Ranch Company’s Development Plans Include ‘Incidental Take’ Permit for California Condors
A luxury-home subdivision in the heart of designated California Condor habitat? That’s exactly what Tejon Ranch Company (TRC) has in mind. In fact, Tejon Ranch Company (TRC) has had it in for the California Condors since at least 1997. That’s when they sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to prevent the reintroduction of the species into Southern California. Why would Tejon Ranch Company (TRC) be opposed to the reintroduction of California Condors? Because TRC would be prevented from developing […]