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VASQUEZ PLAN INPUT SOUGHT.


Byline: Daily News

AGUA DULCE Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations:

In Mexico:
  • Agua Dulce, Veracruz
In the United States:
  • Agua Dulce, California
  • Agua Dulce, El Paso County, Texas
  • Agua Dulce, Nueces County, Texas
 -- The county is accepting public comments both in writing and at a meeting next week on its plan to build an interpretive center at Vasquez Rocks Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 905 acre (3 km²) northern Los Angeles County, California USA park acquired by LA County government in the 1970s. It is in the Agua Dulce vicinity between the Antelope Valley and the Santa Clarita Valley just north of Los Angeles and seen easily  to showcase the nature park's American Indian American Indian
 or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American

Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts.
 history.

An open house will be held Tuesday night in Agua Dulce, and written comments on the draft environmental report for the project will be accepted until Jan. 22.

The 2,700-square-foot center is planned on 4acres at the entrance to the county natural area that surrounds the dramatic jutting jut  
v. jut·ted, jut·ting, juts

v.intr.
To extend outward or upward beyond the limits of the main body; project:
 Vasquez Rocks. There, members of the Tatavium and Chumash tribes lived, leaving a treasure trove TREASURE TROVE. Found treasure.
     2. This name is given to such money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, which having been hidden or concealed in the earth or other private place, so long that its owner is unknown, has been discovered by accident.
 of petroglyphs on cave walls.

The center, planned at the park entrance, would replace a ranger's residence and a trailer used as an office. A 30,000-square-foot parking lot would have room for 43 cars and a turnaround to accommodate two buses. Benches would be scattered for outdoor lessons, and enclosures for rescued animals would be available, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the plans.

Pasadena-based Sapphos Environmental prepared the draft Environmental Impact Report, and copies are available for review at the Canyon Country Library, 18601 Soledad Canyon Road, and the Quartz Hill Library, 420918 50th St. W.

Written comments are being accepted by Salvatore Pecora, project manager for the county Department of Public Works, at P.O. Box 1460, Alhambra, CA 91802. E-mails may be sent to Pecora at specora@ladpw.org.

IF YOU GO

An open house to discuss plans for an interpretive Center at Vasquez Rocks Natural Area will be held at 7p.m. Tuesday at the Agua Dulce Women's Club, 33201 Agua Dulce Canyon Road.

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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Dec 18, 2006
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