The youth committee of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band has organized the 2020 Amah Mutsun Youth Walk for Juristac, set to take place on Saturday October 24. Youth tribal members will walk five miles from San Juan Bautista to the Read More
Category: Updates
Over 400 attend Protecting Sacred Landscapes event: reportback and action steps
On the evening of August 5th, 446 guests attended the Protecting Sacred Landscapes online event to learn about the cultural and ecological importance of Juristac in Santa Clara County and Medicine Lake in Siskiyou County. A video of the full Read More
Summer updates: Juristac art contest, online event, new letters and articles
Amidst COVID-19 restrictions, the movement to protect Juristac has continued to grow. Tribal members have been speaking about Juristac at numerous online conferences and events over the past few months, and letters of support and petition signatures continue to pour Read More
Spring updates, and EIR delayed to late summer
The movement to protect Juristac has been off to a strong start in 2020. Two new Protect Juristac solidarity groups have formed, in Watsonville, CA and at Stanford University. An inspirational Juristac benefit concert in Santa Cruz with a standing-room Read More
City of Santa Cruz votes unanimously to oppose mine at Juristac
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.— Yesterday, Santa Cruz City Council voted unanimously on a resolution urging the County of Santa Clara to deny a permit for sand mining on Juristac, a 6,500-acre landscape southwest of Gilroy that is the spiritual center of Read More
Morgan Hill stands with the Amah Mutsun to protect Juristac
On Wednesday, Morgan Hill became the first city to adopt a resolution calling for the preservation of Juristac. The unanimous vote by the Morgan Hill City Council took place after over 100 supporters of the Amah Mutsun held a rally Read More
Upcoming public speaking events in October
According to the Santa Clara County Planning Commission, the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the proposed Sargent Quarry Project is slated to be released at the end of October or the beginning of November, at which time a very important Read More
Walking to renew the sacred
Amah Mutsun tribe leads five-mile pilgrimage from San Juan Bautista to threatened ceremonial land On September 8, four hundred people gathered in the quiet town of San Juan Bautista, in support of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s efforts to protect Read More
Amah Mutsun WALK for Juristac: Sept. 8, 2019
WALK WITH US— Juristac, the sacred ceremonial grounds of our tribe, is currently threatened by a proposed 320-acre sand and gravel mining operation. To gather strength as we organize to stop this destructive project, we will walk 5 miles together Read More
Stuart Weiss on impacts of the proposed Sargent Quarry to wildlife and landscape linkages
Dr. Stuart Weiss, conservation ecologist and founder of Creekside Science, recently spoke at a public event in Morgan Hill hosted by the Committee for Green Foothills on the theme of “what’s going on with Juristac/Sargent Ranch.” Dr. Weiss’s presentation focused Read More