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Homes dot the edge of the Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort in Palm Springs, Calif. A local environmental group wants to turn the municipal-owned course into a desert preserve.Credit.Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times
Feb. 26, 2021
Mike Tracy bought his dream home on a whim. He and his wife, Cyndi, were visiting Palm Springs, Calif., 10 years ago and looked at a Spanish Mission-style house that was built along the original course at the Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUNE KIM CAMEO
Nature prevailed in November as local nonprofit Oswit Land Trust closed escrow on 114 acres in South Palm Springs, ending a four-year battle with developers and ensuring the preservation of the untamed landscape. “The message was loud and clear that the community wanted this canyon preserved,” says trust founder Jane Garrison. “There were so many frustrations, so many tears. We didn’t give up.”
An avid hiker, Garrison was trekking the South Lykken Trail in 2016 when a passerby broke the news: The magnificent vista Garrison so admired overlooking on her walks was to be bulldozed to make way for a subdivision of 160 luxury houses.