Save the Environment

An Open Letter to the Poway City Council:

I live on Ezra Lane in Poway and I can see that every half year you cut down the native plants and destroy native animals’ homes in Rattlesnake Creek across the street from my house.  There are many plants, animals, and insects that are affected.  This includes blue bellied swift lizards.  Blue bellies help by eating bugs, whose homes you are also cutting down.  Gopher snakes live there too.  And they eat those gophers that everyone complains about.  Gophers are helpful to gopher snakes.  Rabbits live and eat there.  Birds come to eat. 

The cutting is kind of like destroying the creek for people and stealing from the animals. I would like you to consider stopping or reducing the cutting. If you can’t stop, maybe trim a path across instead so there will be a way across and the wildlife will still be preserved.  For flood reasons, maybe you could just clear away the debris in the creek bed where the native plants will still live.

We put together an organization called the Life Club.  We help Mother Earth and this is part of the reason I am writing you this letter.  To get to our website, visit http://www.TukhesBlossom.com/LifeClub.

I am sending this to the Poway Patch so the people in our town know that it is important to protect the environment and people know more about the Life Club.

Thank you,

Madeline R.

11 yrs