Mega Crowd at Save Trestles Event

MEGA CROWD AT SAVE TRESTLES EVENT

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San Clemente, California. November 4. More than 1,000 coastal activists
attended a hearing on Thursday last night with the California State Parks
Commission at the San Clemente Community Center to lobby against the
proposed Foothills Tolll Road that would obliterate parts of San Onofre
State Beach and cause significant damage to the fabled Trestles surfing
area.

Earlier in the day California state park rangers including Steve Long,
father of big-wave surfers Greg and Rusty Long, helped guide some of the
parks commissioners to the area that would be impacted by the private
highway. Steve pointed out that more than 300,000 surfers use Trestles
annually.

The meeting organized by the Surfrider Foundation, Friends of the Foothills
California State Parks Foundation, NRDC, WiLDCOAST, and the Endangered
Habitats League was major turning point in a grassroots and statewide
campaign to save the California's treasured state parks.

Professional surfer Pat O'Connel a longtime Trestles surfer, Surfrider
Foundation activist, and San Clemente resident said that saving Trestles is
critical because "It is one our last refuges in Orange County and North San
Diego."

For more info on how to help save Trestles checkout:

www.Savetrestles.org