Wild nature can be restored and recovered in various ways. It can be as simple bringing some California Quail to the island at Alondra Park. It can be as simple as bringing to permanent closure the annual murderous hunting of our State Bird, the CALIFORNIA QUAIL, which is legal to kill in California except in Parks. It can be as simple as putting young Bald Eagles on platform towers at Alondra Park's island and using volunteers to bring the young eagles their food. It can mean recovering the American Bald Eagle back to to the LA River, Ballona Creek, Ballona Wetlands, Baldwin Hills, Malibu, and Bolsa Chica, by bringing 10-day old Eagles to platforms on buildings, with field biologists and school students as surrogate parents. The Bald Eagle would recover even more quickly if the Sea Otter and Osprey were restored, because the Eagle derives some of its food by stealing fish from Osprey and Otter.

Thus, the really big question for us as a society in southern California stems from the Quail and Eagle as follows:
Why is it that an animal that has disappeared from a specific portion of coastal southern California is usually not considered for recovery, in planning for our coasts, beaches, dunes, prairies, scrub, chaparral, streams, and rivers? For example, the two birds discussed above were once all over southern California. These two birds are our STATE BIRD and NATIONAL SYMBOL! These two birds represent symbols of freedom, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and democracy for all.

Email 'Doc' Robert: alondracountypark@yahoo.com.