Free: Some Great Park proposals (2/26/09)  Lest I be accused of
having nothing good to say about the Great Park, I heard a
couple of ideas mentioned last week that when compared to the
rest of the plans, seem 1) inexpensive and 2) to make sense.  I
ran into former Aliso Viejo Mayor and Green Partier Karl
Warkomski at the unveiling of the "Comprehensive" Park Plan.
He's back from a couple of years in North Carolina and still
carrying his cork wallet. I showed him my Duct Tape wallet
which, while not made of a renewable resource, also never has to
be replaced because I just keep adding strips of tape, as
necessary. The roll I have will last the rest of my life.
Anyway, Warkomski is now heading the Laguna Canyon Foundation
and is pushing to create (or re-create, I suppose) a wildlife
corridor linking the Cleveland National Forest to the Laguna
Coast wilderness parks. Compared to the Big Trench or Lake Larry
or any of the other mega-expensive items on the wish list, this
corridor doesn't require much more than d