The “About Us” page on the Mesquite Desert Preserve website declares that “golf is a dying sport.” While that statement may be overly dramatic, many golf courses around the country have closed in recent years. Hopefully, the city will let us go forward to acquire them, and we can do a desert restoration and have that land be open to the public-and not just golfers.” Then we’ll know what the fair market value is. Currently, we’re doing an appraisal on the city golf courses, which should be done in the next month or so. “It’s interesting: We originally thought (that the property acquisitions) would be Bel Air Greens first, Mesquite second and the Tahquitz courses third, but now it’s reversed. “The two city golf courses are at the Tahquitz (Creek Golf Resort), and then there are (the individual courses at) Bel Air Greens and the Mesquite Golf and Country Club. “Four different golf courses make up the Mesquite Desert Preserve, which is what we want to create,” Garrison said. 2, Garrison and her volunteers celebrated the closing of the Oswit Canyon land purchase, which guarantees that the property will remain a natural preserve in perpetuity.īut well before the ink dried on those closing documents, Garrison and her team were evolving into a new nonprofit entity named the Oswit Land Trust-with plans to expand the organization’s efforts beyond Oswit Canyon: OLT is in negotiations to purchase three golf-course properties within Palm Springs, and then re-purpose the land to create the Mesquite Desert Preserve. What transpired was the establishment of the Save Oswit Canyon, Inc., organization with Garrison at its helm-and after years of determined efforts and fundraising success, on Nov. But now it’s like I went to college for land development over the last four years.” #GARRISON GOLF COURSE HOW TO#I didn’t know how to find funding for conservation purchases. “I sat down with them and asked, ‘How can we have you not develop there?’ They said, ‘Find us $7 million.’ At that time, I thought there was no way we could accomplish that. “One of the first phone calls I made was to the owners (of the property),” Garrison recalled during a recent interview. Such development could potentially impact several endangered species that lived on the property and would certainly infringe on the public enjoyment of popular local hiking trails. After Oswit Canyon: Jane Garrison and Her Organization Are Working to Preserve Other Spaces-Starting With Three Palm Springs Golf-Course Properties - Coachella Valley Independent CloseĪlmost five years ago, environmental activist and Palm Springs resident Jane Garrison learned that Oswit Canyon was under imminent threat-because developers were looking to build a housing community there.
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