Thursday, October 9, 2025
Our Resident Bobcat Needs You, And You need HER Too!
Bobcats play a crucial ecological role in desert ecosystems. Even though they’re elusive and relatively small predators, their presence helps keep the desert land balanced and healthy.
Here’s why they’re important:
🦴 1. Population Control (Predator Balance)
Bobcats are mid-level predators (mesopredators) that help regulate populations of rodents, rabbits, and other small animals.
Without them, prey species can overpopulate, leading to overgrazing and vegetation loss, which destabilizes soil and increases erosion — especially harmful in fragile desert environments.
🌾 2. Protecting Vegetation and Soil Health
By controlling herbivore populations, bobcats indirectly protect native desert plants like creosote, mesquite, and cacti.
Healthy vegetation means better soil retention and reduced desertification (the spread of barren land).
🦉 3. Supporting Biodiversity
Predators like bobcats maintain a trophic cascade — a chain reaction that supports balance among species.
Their hunting patterns create opportunities for scavengers (ravens, coyotes, beetles) and help maintain a diverse food web.
🪶 4. Indicator of Ecosystem Health
Because bobcats need a stable prey base and safe habitat, their presence signals that the desert ecosystem is functioning well.
If bobcat populations decline, it’s often a red flag that the land is under stress from development, habitat loss, or pollution.
🏜️ 5. Natural Pest Control
Bobcats help limit disease-carrying rodents (like pack rats and ground squirrels) that thrive near human settlements.
This natural control benefits both people and wildlife, reducing the need for poisons and traps that can harm other desert animals.
💔 6. Impact of Losing Them
When bobcats are driven out by development:
Rodent populations spike → vegetation loss → erosion → degraded habitat.
The food chain collapses upward — fewer predators means more imbalance for everything from owls to mountain lions.
The desert becomes less resilient to drought and climate change.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
How To Help
More Ways to Help:
1. Let Mark Temple know we don't want our neighborhood destroyed, and to let the neighbors purchase this land instead!
Info@TempleConstructionInc.com
Tel: 760-774-3294
2. Tell The Trustees of the Hinsvark Family Estates to NOT SELL The Land To DEVELOPERS! Sell it to the Neighbors!
Kenneth Jenkins (760) 773-5054
3. Let Realator Candice Johnson know we don't want her selling to developers in our neighborhood!
760-567-2399
candiceterijohnson@gmail.com
4. Let Palm Springs Planning Commissioners Know We Want to PROTECT Mother Nature!
Planning Commission Members:
- Kathy Weremiuk, Chair (Term expires June 30, 2027)
- Lauri Aylaian, Vice Chair (Term expires June 30, 2027)
- Carl Baker (Term expires June 30, 2026)
- Scott Miller (Term expires June 30, 2027)
- David Murphy (Term expires June 30, 2026)
- Robert Rotman (Term expires June 30, 2026)
- John Morrill (Term expires June 30, 2027)
- Megan Hernandez, Non-Voting Member (Term expires June 30, 2028)
Staff Liaison:
- Christopher Hadwin, Planning Director (760) 323-8245
Monday, October 6, 2025
How to Donate
We are looking to raise $11 Million, and know it can be done.
Reach out to:
Who is Developer Mark Temple?
Allegedly this is the developer who has a current offer in.
Tell him how you feel!
Saturday, October 4, 2025
🚨Palm Springs, this is URGENT: 22 Acre Lot in Contingency, Sale Threatens to Displace Wildlife
We are trying to raise funds to preserve the land and meanwhile it appears the sellers have accepted an offer from a developer who will likely turn this area by the wash into high density housing.
The NOISE, destruction of natural habitat, and the devastation these developers bring have made Palm Springs unrecognizable.
Please help stop this transaction from going through.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Animal Sightings From Neighbors- We Live Among Wildlife, Tell Developers to GET LOST.
Big Horn Sheep
Owl
Bobcat Doing Pest Control
Pregnant Female Fox Who Had a Baby!
Ringtail Drinking Water
Checking the Ringtail (Normally- Do Not Feed!)
More Sheep
Hummingbirds
Monday, September 29, 2025
Protect Your Legacy! Don't Let Your TRUSTEE Sell Your Property to DEVELOPERS!
The wash area off of Belardo near Ramon and back by the mountain, is one of the few untouched land areas that the local wildlife like big horn sheep, bobcats, mountain lions, bunnies, roadrunners, toads, frogs, snakes, skunks, raccoons, ringtails, foxes, birds, etc here can safely call home.
UNTIL NOW.
Word on the street is that a developer is set to buy this land and turn into high density housing.
This is WRONG.
The community should be given a chance to save our wildlife.
IS NOTHING SACRED?
This should have a preservation status and environmental protections.
We will soon give details on how to help in this mission to SAVE our desert and preserve it in the Oswit Land Trust.
Stay tuned.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Email Template for Palm Springs Planning
Subject: Opposition to Housing Development in Historic Tennis Club Neighborhood
To: planning@palmspringsca.gov
Cc: cityclerk@palmspringsca.gov , Scott.Stiles@palmspringsca.gov, David.Ready@palmspringsca.gov
To: planning@palmspringsca.gov
Cc: cityclerk@palmspringsca.gov , Scott.Stiles@palmspringsca.gov, David.Ready@palmspringsca.gov
Dear Members of the Planning Department,
I am writing to express my opposition to a housing development in the Historic Tennis Club Neighborhood between La Mirada and Belardo, south of Ramon – see attached image.
This critical area at the base of the mountain supports fragile desert habitat and is vital for native wildlife, including bighorn sheep, bobcats, burrowing owls, nighthawks, and other species that depend on undisturbed open space.
Further development in this ecologically sensitive zone would threaten these animals, intensify pressure on water resources, disrupt hydrology, and erode the natural character that makes Palm Springs unique, and which is becoming scarce in the city.
I ask that my comments be entered into the public record and that I be notified of upcoming hearings or opportunities for public input.
Thank you for your time and for your dedication to preserving Palm Springs' environment and quality of life.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Neighborhood or Community Name]
Palm Springs, CA
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