Friends of the Tahquitz Wildlife Corridor

Dear Neighbors, As we approach the end of the year, we are reaching out with a request on behalf of Friends of the Tahquitz Wildlife Corridor. Many of us choose to live in the Historic Tennis Club Neighborhood because of its unique beauty, walkability, and proximity to the natural landscapes that make Palm Springs special. Today, one of those landscapes urgently needs our help.

A proposed 98-home development on 22 acres, just south of Ramon between La Mirada and Belardo, threatens to interrupt a vital wildlife corridor and permanently alter an area that has remained natural and open for generations. Friends of the Tahquitz Wildlife Corridor, a group made up of your neighbors and friends, is working to conserve this land so it can remain a haven for wildlife—and for all of us who value the beautiful desert that surrounds our neighborhood.

The proposed housing development contains only two points of ingress/egress – Fern Canyon and La Mirada. Obviously, this would create a tremendous amount of new traffic on these quiet streets, as well as on Ramon. Traffic, not only from the eventual homeowners and their service people, but traffic, noise, and dust from 3-4 years of construction. 

In order to oppose this planned development, we need to quickly hire counsel and consultants, which require us to raise substantial funds.  We’re counting on everyone who has a stake in preserving our community to pitch in whatever they can.

While we work to stop the proposed development, we are also working to raise funds in the hope that, if the opportunity presents itself, we might purchase this land and ultimately donate it to Oswit Land Trust for conservation in perpetuity.