Every day, hikers head up the dirt road leading up from behind the Vons in Palm Springs, trekking up the popular Goat Trails hike.
But many hikers might not realize that the area is currently privately owned, and is not protected from future development. People have been hiking and mountain biking up there for so many years that assumption was it was protected land. Many people who live in the community now and hike in that area didn t live here when it was going to be developed, so they don t remember that, said Jane Garrison, president of the Oswit Land Trust.