Links The Center for Biodiversity - www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd The Center is probably the most influential activist environmental organization today. Through its work to protect and list as endangered the Ohlone tiger beetle, the Center for Biodiversity has done more to protect local biodiversity than any other organization in recent history. The Center has also been instrumental in protecting local populations of the red-legged frog. We hope locals will support this group with membership and contributions. California Native Plant Society - www.cnps.org The Society has worked hard to protect and educate about our native flora. The Santa Cruz Chapter is active with field trips, conservation campaigns, and bi-monthly membership meetings with enlightening lectures/slide shows. Members also regularly participate in local habitat restoration programs. The Sierra Club - www.ventana.sierraclub.org The Santa Cruz Group of the Ventana Chapter of the Sierra Club has been important in past efforts to force local agencies to abide by environmental laws and protect our streams, rivers, and sensitive wildlife habitat. Local campaigns now center on protecting Castle Rock State Park, reviewing plans for other State Parks, and reviewing University plans to pave hawk habitat at Terrace Point, on the Santa Cruz coast. Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group - www.scpbrg.org The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, a self-funded part of UCSC, was the lead organization contributing to the peregrine falcon recovery in California. Today they work with government agencies and environmental groups throughout the state on raptor management issues. Salt-o-the-Earth Po-ums and Cartoons by Ray Collett www.oatney.com/endangered_species/poems A collection of poems and cartoons about environmental issues on the UCSC campus. California Academy of Sciences/Entomology Dept www.calacademy.org/research/entomology For more information about Meta dolloff (Dolloff cave spider) and Microcreagris imperialis (Empire Cave pseudoscorpion), contact Darrell Ubick (dubick@calacademy.org), a curatorial assistant at the California Academy of Science's natural history research museum in San Francisco, CA. Santa Cruz Public Libraries - www.santacruzpl.org/ref/endang/cicinde.shtm Compilation of information on the Ohlone Tiger Beetle. California Coastal Commission - www.coastal.ca.gov The California Coastal Commission's primary mission is to plan for and regulate land and water uses in the coastal zone consistent with the policies of the Coastal Act. Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz - www.mbosc.org Local mountain bike organization posts information on and trail advisories for the Ohlone Tiger Beetle. UCSC Arboretum -www2.ucsc.edu/arboretum The UCSC Arboretum is becoming a significant contributor to the conservation of plants and their habitats worldwide, with special emphasis on plants of California and Mediterranean climate zones of the world (esp. South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile). The beautiful and extensive gardens house numerous native plants and rare plants from around the world, and are also sanctuary to populations of two endangered species- the red legged frog and the Ohlone tiger beetle. WRITE TO THE TOP To express your opinions on conservation and management issues to the highest levels, write to the following: UCSC Chancellor MRC Greenwood - mrcgrnwd@cats.ucsc.edu Superintendant of Santa Cruz District of State Parks - Dave Vincent - dvinc@parks.ca.gov Phone: (831) 429-2850