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MYTH: Wildlife and endangered species will be protected if the Foothill-South is built.
FACT: The toll road would destroy habitat for eleven threatened or endangered species under federal law.
The road would fragment and degrade habitat within the park at San Onofre for the steelhead trout, arroyo toad, California gnatcatcher, Least Bell’s vireo, Southwestern willow flycatcher, Riverside fairy shrimp, San Diego fairy shrimp, snowy plover, Pacific pocket mouse, thread-leaved brodiaea, and tidewater goby. TCA nevertheless approved the project without identifying if, when or where it would acquire new replacement habitat for these species, relying instead on lands that have already been set aside as mitigation for other projects.
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