On Saturday, July 26, chapter leaders, Executive Committee members, Steering
Committee representatives, and conservation campaigners from across the state
gathered for a powerful summit, titled “California in the Crosshairs

“Through this beautiful valley runs a good-sized river…on whose banks are large,
shady groves… A

Mystic Lake—one of Southern California’s most biologically significant inland wetlands—is protected as public conservation land, yet its future remains precarious.