Outreach materials
- Shaded relief map of Juristac/Sargent Ranch with proposed sand and gravel mine features, to visualize impacts. Prepared in 2019 by the GreenInfo Network.
- Half-sheet handbill style Protect Juristac flyer, print ready (2021) (NEW)
- Simple outreach flyer — 8.5×11 single sided, for printing in color or black and white.
- "I signed the petition, what else can I do?"— handbill flyer, 2-up, double sided (Aug. 2021)
- Intro to the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s Campaign to Protect Juristac (3 page PDF)
- Petition to Protect Juristac (PDF) — for in-person outreach and tabling. Designed to be printed on 8.5×11 paper at 100% size, for use with a clipboard.
- Protect Juristac donation page that may be shared on social media, etc
- Chairman Lopez speaks at United Nations about Juristac 4/17/18 – 3:30 min, YouTube
- Juristac: A short film by Ariel Bobbett — 4 minutes, 2018. Available via YouTube and Facebook.
- Amah Mutsun Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez’s Perspective on Juristac by Stanford Journalism 1/28/2020. 3 minutes.
- ACLU NorCal webpage on the Campaign to Protect Juristac
- Signatories of the Statement of Opposition to Sargent Ranch Quarry Proposal (PDF, 2 pages)
- Juristac Tribal Cultural Landscape overview map (2022)
Textos en español
- Proteja a Juristac, apoye la supervivencia cultural Indígena (2-up PDF)
- Protege Terrenos Sagrados de los Amah Mutsun (PDF)
- Petición al Condado de Santa Clara (PDF)
- Manifestación por la protección de Juristac 9/10/22 (PDF)
- Telemundo: Posible construcción de mina dañaría la fauna y flora de colinas en el condado Santa Clara (video)
Press coverage to date
- Gilroy Dispatch 6/5/25: Open Space Trust Buys 2500 Acres, Property in Sargent Ranch will be protected forever
- The Real Deal 6/4/25: Sargent Ranch land proposed for quarry in Santa Clara County sells to environmental trust
- Mercury News 6/2/25: Sargent Ranch: Landowners who proposed quarry sell large chunk of property in Santa Clara County
- Palo Alto Online 12/4/24: Palo Alto joins effort to stop quarry at Juristac
- The Registry 10/29/24: Peninsula Open Space Trust Pays $15.65MM for 1,340-acre Pescadero Ranch in Southeastern Santa Cruz County
- SV Business Journal 10/28/24: Peninsula Open Space Trust acquires Pescadero Ranch
- San Francisco Chronicle 10/28/24: Critical California corridor for mountain lions to be preserved
- Mercury News 10/28/24: Environmentalists buy part of huge ranch at center of mining controversy in Santa Clara County
- Peninsula Open Space Trust 10/28/24 Press release: POST Purchases and Permanently Protects Pescadero Ranch
- Gilroy Dispatch 4/24/24: More than 10K comment on Sargent Ranch Quarry study
- BenitoLink 4/23/24: Sargent Quarry project lacks public support
- San Jose Inside 4/22/24: Santa Clara County Hears Overwhelming Support for Sargent Ranch Open Space
- Prism 2/8/24: San Francisco Bay Area’s Amah Mutsun Tribal Band continues fight to preserve sacred land
- Mountain View Voice 4/26/23: Mountain View stands in solidarity with Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s opposition to proposed quarry in south Santa Clara County
- KQED 3/10/23: From The Soil: Protecting Sacred Land In The South Bay
- Bay Nature 1/3/23: Juristac: Proving the Sanctity of a Landscape
- High Country News 11/7/22: The Amah Mutsun tribe rallies to save sacred sites
- Telemundo 48 10/25/22: Posible construcción de mina dañaría la fauna y flora de colinas en el condado Santa Clara (video)
- FOX 2 KTVU 9/25/22: Tribe, environmentalists oppose mining project in Santa Clara County
- Gilroy Dispatch 9/13/22: Hundreds join rally against Gilroy mining proposal
- Metro Silicon Valley 9/14/22: Sargent Mine Protest Held at McEntee Plaza
- SJSU Spartan Daily 9/13/22: Local tribe objects to mining project
- Gilroy Dispatch 8/30/22: Developer scales back Sargent Mine plans
- SF Gate 8/26/22: Bay Area residents outraged by controversial, ‘ugly’ development that would disturb Native American burial sites
- CBS Bay Area 8/24/22: Sargent Ranch sand quarry project sparks culture clash with Native American tribe (video)
- ABC7 8/24/22: Bay Area Amah Mutsun tribe says quarry proposal threatens sacred site in Santa Clara Co. (video)
- Challenging Colonialism podcast 8/23/22: s01 Bonus: Take Action to Protect Juristac (10 min. audio)
- CBS Bay Area 8/22/22: Public comment invited on proposed plan to build gravel mine on Native American spiritual site (short)
- Bay City News 8/22/22: Planning Commission Opens Floor For Public Comment In Controversial Mining Project
- Gilroy Dispatch 8/16/22: Council opposes Sargent Quarry project
- Gilroy Life 8/15/22: Local tribe fights to save heart of Amah Mutsun culture
- San Jose Mercury News 7/31/22: Highly anticipated report about South County mine proposed near Gilroy released
- San Francisco Chronicle 7/30/22: South Bay gravel mine proposal would tread on sacred tribal land, report says
- San Jose Spotlight 7/27/22: Santa Clara County mine project threatens wildlife
- Gilroy Dispatch 7/26/22: Report identifies ‘significant’ impacts from proposed Sargent Mine
- KCBS Radio 7/25/22: Indigenous tribe battles ‘disgraceful’ development plan near Gilroy
- CBS Bay Area 7/23/22: Plan for quarry near Gilroy draws Indigenous tribe’s blowback
- AMTB Press Release 7/22/22: Proposed Mine Would Cause Irreparable Harm to Sacred Lands in Santa Clara County
- Stanford Daily 6/15/22: The movement to protect a local tribe’s most sacred site | Part two
- Adventure Sports Journal 6/6/22: Protect Juristac: A Call for Help
- KCBS Radio 4/17/22: Tribal leaders try to stop construction of a quarry on sacred land
- San Francisco Chronicle 4/1/22: Ranch owner wants to raze hills near Gilroy for a gravel quarry. Tribal leaders say the land is sacred (front page story) | PDF article copy
- Santa Cruz Goodtimes 3/31/22: PV Arts Exhibit Highlights Indigenous Stewardship
(article highlights Juristac) - Making Contact 3/16/22: Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration (30 min. podcast)
- Native News Online 12/20/21: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of Costanoan/Ohlone Continue Working to Protect Sacred Land
- Gilroy Dispatch 11/10/21: Human rights commission opposes Sargent Mine
- San Jose Spotlight 11/8/21: Proposed mine near Gilroy a human rights issue, says commission
- KION 5/46 News 6/5/21: Lummi Nation’s traveling totem pole makes a stop in Gilroy to highlight threatened sacred lands
- Santa Cruz City Newsroom 2/12/20: City Council Passes Resolution in Support of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s Efforts to Preserve Open Space
- SJSU News 2/6/20: Advocates petition to preserve sacred land
- Peninsula Press 1/31/20: Santa Clara County considers proposed sand mining operation on indigenous sacred land
- San Jose Inside 1/17/20: Morgan Hill Supports Amah Mutsun Tribe, Opposes Proposed Sargent Ranch Gravel Mine
- Morgan Hill Times 1/16/20: Council supports tribe, opposes mine proposal [also published in the Gilroy Times
- CBS News (KPIX) 1/16/20: Tribe Asks Morgan Hill to Oppose Sand Mine on Sacred Land
- KQED FM 1/16/20: 1-minute live radio segment re: Morgan Hill Juristac resolution
- ABC7 News 1/15/20: Morgan Hill throws support behind tribal band in effort to preserve sacred land in South Bay
- Santa Cruz Good Times 12/31/19: Silicon Valley Construction Boom Threatens Local Tribal Land
- Medium 12/2/19: Quarry Quarrel: The fight for Juristac is shaping up to be Silicon Valley’s own Standing Rock (republished from San Jose Inside)
- San Jose Inside 11/28/19: Fight over Proposed Sargent Ranch Quarry is Shaping Up to be Silicon Valley’s Standing Rock
- Hollister Free Lance 11/7/19: Environmental report on proposing mining operation at Sargent Ranch expected soon
- Aptos Times 10/18/19: Walking to Renew the Sacred
- YouTube 10/17/19: Amah Mutsun Walk for Juristac in San Juan Bautista, CA (Livestream from Walk for Juristac)
- Harker Aquila 10/1/19: Local tribe protests Santa Clara County mining operation
- Benitolink 9/15/19: Community walks for Juristac
- NBC Bay Area 7/10/19: Battle Brewing Over Native American Land in Gilroy
- CBS News (KPIX) 7/10/19: Massive Santa Clara County Sand Mine Project Opposed By Native American Tribe
- Mercury News 7/9/19: “This is definitely a local Standing Rock”: Sargent Ranch
- Santa Cruz Sentinel 6/30/2019: Battle for Sargent Ranch to heat up
- San Jose Spotlight 3/23/2019: Native tribe opposes Sargent Ranch quarry project on sacred land
- Santa Cruz Sentinel 1/11/2019: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band hopes to protect sacred land from development
- City on a Hill Press 10/5/2017: Sacred Site Slated for Development— Amah Mutsun oppose proposed gravel mine
- BenitoLink 12/11/2016: Citing cultural degradation and religious desecration, local tribe opposes mining project
- San Jose Inside 11/30/2016: Proposed Gravel Mine Would Violate Sacred Ground
- Gilroy Dispatch 11/4/2016: Local Native American Mining Battle Brewing
- SV Business Journal 1/27/2016: After foreclosure, new plan for 6,400-acre Sargent Ranch south of Gilroy
Community Support
- Friends of Juristac, Santa Cruz County / Facebook page / email: friendsofjuristac [at] gmail.com
- Friends of Juristac, San Jose / South Bay Indigenous Solidarity / email: indigenoussolidarity [at] protonmail.com
- South County for Protecting Juristac (South Santa Clara County/Gilroy/Morgan Hill)
- Kallentaruk (Watsonville) for Protecting Juristac
- Stanford Protect Juristac Coalition— email stanford [at] protectjuristac.org
Official documents:
- County of Santa Clara: Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Sargent Quarry Project (Published 7/22/22)
- County of Santa Clara, Board of Supervisors 1/23/18 Board Referral: Direct Administration to work with interested conservation partners and property owners to explore the opportunity to acquire the property or easements to conserve all or some of the 6,500 acres that comprise the property commonly known as Sargent Ranch. (Approved unanimously)
- Notice of Preparation of an EIR for the Sargent Quarry Project (7/21/2016)
- Sargent Quarry Promotional Slideshow by Freeman & Associates (2016)
- Santa Clara County Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA) info
Regional Conservation and Habitat Planning
- Green Foothills: Juristac/Sargent Ranch Campaign
- Bay Area Conservation Lands Network— home of the Bay Area Critical Linkages Project
- Santa Clara County Conservation Greenprint (Sargent Hills are a Conservation Focus Area)
- Final Santa Clara Valley Habitat Plan
- America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2006 (PDF report) – the Pajaro River, on p. 13, is listed as the #1 most endangered river.
- Pajaro Compass webmap— learn more about the Pajaro River watershed
Tribal resolutions and statements
- Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Resolution No. 03-2016 opposing the Sargent Quarry Project on Unique Ancestral Tribal Lands at Juristac
- 10/31/16 Press Release: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Opposes Sargent Ranch Quarry Project near Gilroy, California
- Sargent Quarry Project— Request for Tribal Consultation – filed in October 2016 with County of Santa Clara
- 4/12/2018 Press Release: Amah Mutsun Tribal Chairman Speaks at United Nations to Call for Protection of Tribal Sacred Site from Surface Mining Proposal
Sargent Quarry and Sargent Ranch promotional websites
Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
- Amah Mutsun Land Trust website
- Amah Mutsun Tribal Band website
- The Case of California’s Amah Mutsun by E. Richard Hart, published in the journal Western Legal History, 2003 — a scholarly review of the legal history of the dispossession of Mutsun people from their ancestral lands, with a focus on the case of Rancho Juristac (Sargent Ranch).
- Justice for Juristac: Using International and Comparative Law to Protect Indigenous Lands— article in the Santa Clara Journal of International Law (2020)
- San Juan Bautista Recognition of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
- Video: Here and Now— by Bay Area Open Space Council, 2015. 18 minutes. Documents the work of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust and Tribal Stewardship Corps.
- Video: Excavating the past; Improving the future— by UC Berkeley, 2018. 4 minutes. Portrays ongoing collaboration between the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and UC Berkeley archaeologists and anthropologists.
- Video: UMUNHUM by Plus M Productions, 2017. 11 minutes.
- Four Current Threats to Sacred Lands of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band (2021, PDF, 1 page)
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