Letter to GGNRA: Keep Rancho Corral de Tierra pristine

To Whom it may concern and the GGNRA Board Members,

It is my intention to speak out for future generations as I write you today. We are requesting you leave Rancho Corral de Tierra as pristine and untouched, after you complete the transfer of ownership from POST, as the explorers that first discovered it .

In the past, I have been a proud supporter and financial contributer in helping the GGNRA’s Board Members realize their visions for such areas as Fort Point, Morri Point, Sweeny and Milagra Ridges for the recreational use by their respective communities’ members and their visitors. You should be commended on the implementation of those visions and are rightfully deserving of those accolades. What I am most proud of is the Board’s ability to preserve and restore the topography to it’s natural balance. In Rancho Corral de Tierra’s case, that would mean removing the Pampas Grasses Cal-Trans planted decades ago to prevent soil erosion when building Highway One through Mount Montara. It does not mean removing the horses, building outhouses and concessions, but restoring and leaving the area as undisturbed as it has remained through the millenniums.

In short, this is a historic piece of land that needs to be respected and preserved by it’s visitors and by it’s stewards. It is for these reasons that I humbly beseech the Board to leave this land to the future explorers and to their discoveries whether they are made on foot, horse or bicycle.  The smaller your foot print the mightier your legacy will be to the people of the community, state, countrymen and those whom venture around our planet visiting our pristine slice of heaven the Spanish explorers named Rancho Corral de Tierra.

Please help us keep Rancho Corral de Tierra the precious gem it is, and make it one of the crown jewels of the GGNRA legacy, not some sort of tourist trap.

Thank you for helping us. I look forward to speaking with you further at the June 17 Open House you are hosting in Woodside.
Joel Colletti
Montara