Conservation of Skyhawk Wildland

Why conserving this wildland?

During the 2020 Glass Fire, we had 15 homes burnt down in the Skyhawk neighborhood. If you recall, the firefighters used the wildland to the north of Sunhawk Drive to perform back burns which helped prevent bigger damages.

We encourage you to send your advocacy email to our elected representatives as follows:

To: Susan.Gorin@sonoma-county.org, (Susan Gorin, Sonoma County Supervisor, 1st District)
To: dmacdonald@srcity.org, (Dianna MacDonald, Santa Rosa City Council, District 3)
Cc: Skyhawk.United@gmail.com

Community Efforts Timeline

11/1/2023: Jennifer Kuszmar, Acquisition Manager of Ag+ Open Space replied:

Ag+ Open Space is preparing to contract appraisal now.
Ag+ Open Space anticipates to have an appraisal completed just after the first of the year.
Ag+ Open Space is re-engaging with the landowner.

10/30/2023: Email sent to neighbors asking them to send advocacy emails to elected representatives Susan Gorin and Dianna MacDonald.

10/17/2023: Update from Jen Kujala: “Ag+ Open Space is not responding. We may need to get the politicians involved and have the community write letters.”

8/23/2023: We had a special board meeting

The Board voted unanimously to support permanent conservation of 965 Los Alamos Dr.
Minutes was shared with Jen Kujala, who sent it to Wildlife Heritage Foundation and Ag+ Open Space.

8/21/2023: Frustrated by lack of progress with Ag+ Open Space, Jen Kujala asked Skyhawk United to support.

7/22/2022 Jen Kujala led community efforts and held meeting with 60+ people attended

807 petition signatures on Change.org.
100 wet signatures on paper.