URGENT: Action is at 8:30 am this morning!
(A note from Jim Hines, team leader of the Sierra Club California Wildlife Team)
Greetings Friends:
The Sierra Club’s Mountain Lions FOREVER! campaign to protect the largest wild cats in California is asking each of you to support the following resolution before the Ventura county board of supervisors today (February 25) – Agenda item # 37 with no time certain, but we can all speak at general public comment which is at 8:30 AM.
Where: Ventura County Government Center at 800 S. Victoria Ave., Ventura
Resolution: here.
Excerpt from resolution:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Ventura County Board of Supervisors hereby includes in its 2020 State Legislative Agenda and Platform support or sponsorship of legislation and/or administrative action to end the issuance of depredation permits in Ventura County for mountain lions that attacked livestock and other animals; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Ventura supports legislative or executive action to support the listing of the Southern /Central Coast Evolutionary Significant Unit (ESU) of Mountain Lions at Threatened under the California Endangered Species Act as recommended by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Please attend the board meeting and speak out or send a email to the board members:
for mountain lions FOREVER!
Jim
INDIVISIBLE VENTURA 