Have you heard about CalTrans’ proposal for Laguna Canyon Road? Come to a presentation by Laguna Canyon Foundation, Greg and Barbara MacGillivray, and Laguna Beach CANDO covering the overall project and its impacts on our community and canyon. Join the meeting to get information and discuss community concerns about the impacts of the proposed [...]
March 13, 2018 FivePoint hosted an event celebrating the groundbreaking of the OC Great Park Wildlife Corridor in Irvine, California. The corridor is the central part of the larger Irvine-Laguna Wildlife Corridor, and will run along the eastern edge of the Great Park adjacent to housing developments. This event represents a major milestone in the [...]
This project is one of the most unique conservation projects you'll encounter in the Western US. The OC Great Park Wildlife Corridor is the central portion of a 6-mile long wildlife corridor in central Orange County, Ca. We are rewilding the last coastal-mountain link for wildlife with OC Great Park Wildlife Corridor. Learn more [...]
This week marks the groundbreaking of the central part of the Irvine-Laguna Wildlife Corridor. The OC Great Park Wildlife Corridor will link the southernand northern portions of the corridor, and represents the successful collaboration between FivePoint, The City of Irvine, and Laguna Greenbelt, Inc. and its coalition partners. Read more at the following publications: https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/13/wildlife-corridor-at-orange-county-great-park-in-irvine-unveiled-expected-to-fill-missing-link-between-mountains-coast/ [...]
Today, Laguna Greenbelt, Inc. marks half a century of habitat protection and advocacy. In 1968, our founder Jim Dilley could only imagine what life would be like in 2017. Initially, he advocated for an undeveloped ‘greenbelt’ about one-quarter the size of the 22,000 acres of protected wilderness parks along central Orange County coast. These [...]
Laguna Greenbelt, Inc. was recently featured on The Backyard Gnome, a Canadian-based blog about backyard design, party planning, and now - community organizations. Thank you, Backyard Gnome, for telling all your readers about our work and promoting international awareness about environmental conservation! http://thebackyardgnome.com/laguna-greenbelt-information/
The State of California recently announced that Laguna Beach will receive $500,000 for creek restoration on the City-owned DeWitt property. This parcel lies between Anneliese School and the Sun Valley neighborhood, adjacent to Laguna Canyon Road. In 2015 Laguna Greenbelt board members Bob Borthwick and Lance Vallery completed a Master Plan document with recommendations to [...]
In the spring of 2016, six Environmental Science seniors from UCLA collected photo images of animals around Spectrum V business park, in the vicinity of the Coast to Cleveland Wildlife Corridor. The results of their project are in, and show some interesting trends. Of concern is a lack of bobcats sightings; Only one bobcat was seen. Coyotes were [...]
