The Trust is Collaborating to Protect 4,207 Acres in San
Diego County
View of the Beauty Mountain Management Area
With the support of the Resources Legacy Fund
Foundation, the Trust is collaborating with the State of California
Wildlife Conservation Board to preserve more than 4,000 acres
of land in the Beauty Mountain Management Area.
The acquisition of this property, located in
San Diego County in the upper Santa Margarita Watershed, will
protect native habitats and wildlife and provide significant
opportunities for public enjoyment in an area with ever increasing
development. The project will allow for the consolidation
of BLM lands to the south with the Beauty Mountain Wilderness
Study Area to the north, increasing contiguous BLM lands by
4,200 acres. It also provides the potential to increase a
proposal for wilderness designation from 11,400 to 15,600
acres.
The preservation of this property will be part
of The Wilderness Land Trust’s larger effort in California
to eliminate high priority inholdings in designated and proposed
wilderness areas. Significant progress has been made toward
that goal with the support of the Preserving Wild California
Program of the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation.
