An Open Letter to Sate Senators Kevin de Leon and Ricardo Lara
You know that the Trump administration is targeting California's people and places. Rolling back regulations and undoing progressive policies. It should come as no surprise to either of you that California's desert wildlands are also in the crosshairs. Trump is considering reducing multiple national monuments in California; an unprecedented attempt to exploit wild places that we should be protecting and passing on to future generations. It is within your power to counter one of Trump's assaults by simply allowing a vote on Assembly Bill 1000 . If you fail to do so, you should know that you break from at least a century of effort by Californians to protect our desert public lands. Admiring California's desert. California's desert wildlands are among its greatest treasures. And Californians have long fought to keep them that way. Minerva Hoyt of Pasadena worked for years in the early 1900s to call attention to the destruction of California's d