Special Episode! Collective Revolution to Save The Jurupa Oak.
Ecologist and Conservation Chair of the Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, Aaron Echols is leading the cause to keep a 13,000-18,000 year old Palmer’s Oak, in the Jurupa Hills, on Sacred Land where endangered species of animals and plants reside with the Jurupa Oak.
Echols discusses plans to blast the area around the "Jurupa (Palmer's) Oak" to destroy the ridge to build warehouses. This "development" project will most likely destroy the underground mycelium network of the oldest living oak, which is the third oldest living being on this planet.
Echols started an Instagram page, @friends_of_the_jurupa_oak to help bring attention to this ancient tree, that not only affects the lives of endangered animals and plants, but ancient artifacts of the Indigenous peoples who lived on this Sacred Land.
Jurupa (Palmer’s) Oak, Digital Photography, photo by Aaron Echols.
There is a petition on the page, as well as ways to contact officials and a city council meeting September 5th, in the Jurupa Valley.
Here’s what you can do: https://www.friendsofthejurupaoak.org/what-can-you-do Tell City Council: https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/osUi7TzUL0yjK7Rle3yOMg2?sourceid=1009609&utm_source=action&utm_medium=email&contactdata=%7B%7BContactData%7D%7D Sign the Petition: https://www.change.org/p/halt-rio-vista-plan-to-save-the-13-000-year-old-jurupa-oak
Jurupa (Palmer’s) Oak in the Jurupa Valley, Digital Photography, photo by Aaron Echols.
We are all apart of the collective. It is not a special group or community out of anyone’s reach. The trees, the earth, the plants, the insects, the animals, and humans are all apart of the collective. We each have something to give to the world and our communities around us. It’s in knowing how to care for the ones we love, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. It is all self-care. Community care is self-care. And together we are more than community, we are like the stars singing in the sky. We are music and our voices are the hum of the universe. Because we are of the earth and things of stars, and so is every thing on this earth.
Thank you for taking joining me on this journey. I hope that we can all come together to create positive change.
Collective Revolution to Save the Jurupa Oak