High Plains Drifters
August 10, 2012 by Beth Slatkin
My current beach reading has the usual ingredients: a steamy love triangle, a pitched battle between mortal enemies, and colorful …
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Bohemia Ranch Goes Public
July 11, 2012 by Jacoba Charles
A remarkable Sonoma County landscape is finally preserved, protecting redwoods, Sargent cypress, serpentine grasslands, and a beloved waterfall.
A campaign to save California’s coastal prairie
June 25, 2012 by Jacoba Charles
With golden summer hillsides and enticing mosaics of forest and field, the grasslands of California are iconic. Yet few people realize that some of those grasslands are actually coastal prairie, one of the most diverse—and most endangered—ecosystems in the world.Today less than 5 percent of this vibrant habitat remains comparatively intact. Much has been lost to more than a century of fire suppression, development, tilling and invasion by non-native species.
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Private Land, Public Access in Sonoma County
July 01, 2011 by Aleta George
Sonoma County’s 832-acre Bohemia Ranch has been eyed as a potential public park since the 1990s. With park funding hard to find, it seemed like access was a long way off until the land’s owners decided to partner with the nonprofit LandPaths to open the land to the public.
