A new article

What We Take For Granted

has been posted on the Charles Harmon site.

At the base of Cucamonga Peak with her two big sisters, Mount San Antonio and Ontario Peak looking on, lies Rancho Cucamonga. The specter of these three magnificent spires makes Rancho a beautiful place to live and raise a family.

Our community rests on a massive alluvial fan composed of sedimentation gathered over eons from multiple canyons along our mountain front. Our foothills comprise a rich transitional zone between our granite backdrop and the alluvial soils upon which most of us live. The natural communities that occupy our foothills and alluvial fan are extremely diverse, highly adapted, and incredibly threatened.

Southern California has been identified as one of eight “hot spots” worldwide where species loss is occurring at an unprecedented rate. Many of the plant and animal communities here rank as some of the most vulnerable in the world.

You can read the complete article here.