Jan-Mar 2006
Private Land, Public Good
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
How do you preserve significant parcels of open space in an era of rising land prices and shrinking public budgets? …
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Dance of the Cranes
January 01, 2006 by Mike Faden
The Cosumnes Preserve near I-5 in the Central Valley is a surprising mosaic of flooded rice fields teeming with birds, breached levees creating new forests, and a river reclaiming a landscape.
Altering the ESA
January 01, 2006 by Aleta George
In October 2005 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that, if approved by the Senate and signed into …
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Breuner Marsh Stewardship
January 01, 2006 by Aleta George
Some people inherit china, but Whitney Dotson has inherited a marsh. He doesn’t actually own Breuner Marsh, the 238-acre tidal …
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Marin County Nonmotorized Transit Pilot Program
January 01, 2006 by Aleta George
Marin County is already home to many spectacular trails for recreational cyclists, hikers, and walkers, but there’s a new trail …
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New Golf Course in Menlo Park
January 01, 2006 by Aleta George
After hearing testimony from 89 speakers, bleary-eyed Menlo Park city council members voted 3 to 2 on November 1 to …
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Restoration of Dutch Slough
January 01, 2006 by Aleta George
In the city of Oakley, Dutch Slough has one foot on the reed-covered banks of the Delta in northeastern Contra …
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First Encounters
January 01, 2006 by David Rains Wallace
When European explorers and naturalists began coming to California a few centuries ago, most sailed right past the fog-shrouded Golden Gate. But those few who did stop here, including the botanist-poet who first described the California poppy, left tantalizing clues to the world they saw before the Gold Rush transformed the Bay Area from backwater to boomtown.
Letter from the Publisher
January 01, 2006 by David Loeb
As we were considering articles for our fifth anniversary issue, which you are now holding in your hands, David Rains …
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Conservation Easements Around the State
January 01, 2006 by Darla Guenzler
California leads the nation in the number of land trusts, with over 150. Similar to their Bay Area counterparts, land …
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Livermore Valley
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
Along Tesla Avenue at the south edge of Livermore, rows of grapevines angle from the roadside, showing a trace of …
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People and Easements
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
From a modern house on a knoll in the Nicasio Valley, Randy Lafranchi, fifth-generation Marin County dairyman and second-generation easement …
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Private Land, Public Good
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
How do you preserve significant parcels of open space in an era of rising land prices and shrinking public budgets? In the 1990s, more Bay Area land was protected using conservation easements, where the owner can stay on the land but gives up development rights, than by outright purchase. Though not without their critics, easements are reshaping the way we go about saving our local landscapes.
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San Mateo Coast
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
South of San Francisco, the Peninsula displays a kind of natural zoning-by-topography. On the east side, along the Bay, is …
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Sonoma County
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
Like San Mateo County, Sonoma County has both a private nonprofit land trust and a government body working to protect …
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West Marin
January 01, 2006 by John Hart
Driving out to the coast among the seemingly endless ranks of Marin County hills, studded with rock outcrops and spotted …
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Stone-Boiled Coffee and Other Old Ways
January 01, 2006 by Cindy Spring
We all have moments on hikes when we dream of being able to live directly off the land, plants, and …
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Wild Gardens
January 01, 2006 by Beverly R. Ortiz
A visit to remnant native grasslands in Richmond or diverse oak woodlands in eastern Alameda County gives a taste of our region’s native habitats. But few of us are aware of an important element that helped shape those habitats: the regimes of burning, pruning, and digging carried out over centuries by the East Bay’s indigenous inhabitants, some of whom still carry on those traditions today.
