The Chumash name for the wetland where the Modoc Preserve is located is Kaswa’a…”Little Swamps”…the Spaniards called it Cieneguitas…and, this wetland drains into Cieneguitas Creek…
Santa Barbara County Public Works Department had the original Multi-Use Path cutting down 63 trees and going down into the wetland of a protected nature preserve…not only was trying to construct this asphalt road down in the wetland stupid and lacking in common sense…it was also against environmental law…good thing that our opposition forces stopped them before doing irreparable harm…
Again, we implore the County to simply extend the Obern Trail Multi-Use Path (MUP) shown in these images with a vehicle barrier in the existing asphalt infrastructure, outside of the Modoc Preserve, north of the tree line, a few hundred yards down Modoc Road to Via Senda…keeping this protected nature preserve 100% in tact…
As you can plainly see in these images, the 4.5 mile Obern Trail does not have 5′ wide Class II bike lanes on either side of it…in fact, the bridge crossing is barely 10′ wide…and, blind…so, a 10′ wide extension down to Via Senda with a vehicle barrier will solve this kerfluffle…
