Environmental
Feb. 17, 2005
Developer Uses RICO Against Opposition Environmentalists
Each winter, 20 bald eagles set up house in the forest bordering Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. When developer Irving Okovita proposed a 130-condomimun and 175-boat marina development on the north shore of the lake, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Friends of Fawnskin, a local conservation group, said they feared it would disrupt the bald eagle habitat.
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