Throughout the day on Saturday, November 7, 2009, TCCRG hosted an informative booth at the first-ever Kaweah Land and Arts Festival at Tulare County’s splendid Kaweah Oaks Preserve.  TCCRG’s displays featured information on our proposed Healthy Growth Alternative for the County’s General Plan Update, as well as on the Boswell Company’s proposed Yokohl Ranch development and the company’s almost-built-out 10,000 home Eastlake development in San Diego County (which is necessitating the construction of a new freeway to handle its traffic) and on what we can do to protect the oak woodlands that provide us daily with so many essential (free!) benefits.  We answered questions, shared ideas, and were happy to sign up new members and watch signatures being added to our oaks petition (just in case the Supervisors ever need reminding that they made adopting an Oak Woodlands Management Plan a priority — as soon as the GPU is adopted if not before).

The Festival, a lively celebration of our region’s nature, art and culture, was presented by Sequoia Riverlands Trust, and featured artists, poets, writers, historians, musicians, farmers, ranchers, and scientists who have been deeply enriched and inspired by our County’s diverse and abundant natural and cultural resources.

Hats off to Sequoia Riverlands Trust for organizing this informative, engaging, and entertaining festival (with events on three days!) “to remind us all and encourage us to become more engaged caretakers of our natural and cultural resources.”