http://www.savebanningranch.org/forum To comment, click on title or on comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:36:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some people feel that you cant win against the entrenched interests.  And there is good reason to believe that, given how much destruction of nature has been accepted as progress by our officials. But Banning is the last place of its kind on the So Cal coast, and consequently is ... http://www.savebanningranch.org/forum/?p=56 [caption id="attachment_51" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="To people in the year 2050; Look what we left you"][/caption] If you were around the area a number of years ago, you'll remember a grand stretch of open hills descending to the ocean between Laguna and Corona Del Mar. Now its just another big money enclave. http://www.savebanningranch.org/forum/?p=37 Growing up in our incredible area in the late 50s and 60s I spent many days of my childhood riding my bike through uncrowded streets to play in many of the open fields around Costa Mesa and Newport. My friends and I regularly climbed a huge pine tree on the ... http://www.savebanningranch.org/forum/?p=16 And couldnt help but see right away the distorted picture of the land they are portraying of an industrial dump. If banning is covered with oil wells, where did our pictures come from?  Made up in photoshop I suppose? http://www.savebanningranch.org/forum/?p=7