On Friday’s Z107.7 Up Close Show, host Gary Daigneault spoke with Chair of the County Board of Supervisors Dawn Rowe, where they discussed the importance of native plants on private properties in the Morongo Basin, especially during the monsoon season. A conversation about Land Use issues began with the importance of getting permits when grading your property:
Dawn Rowe: “In the county, we try to encourage spot grading only. Leave your native vegetation, because it really truly holds a lot of that dirt in place. And the minute you scrape that soil, you’re coming back with non-native weeds and hula-hoing becomes a full time job.”
Rowe discussed the importance of educating people about some of the practical purposes that our native vegetation serves, specifically during rainy season:
Dawn Rowe: “This is a question of your private property rights versus the need to educate for, if you have somebody that comes from out of the area and they think, “oh this is a great idea to uproot these native plants, and then all of a sudden, they have their first monsoon, then all of a sudden they have a new water channel running through because they really have uprooted the native plants. So that balance between educating and mandating.”
You can hear the full interview with Supervisor Rowe by listening to the Up Close Show as a podcast here or wherever you get your podcasts.
