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From Loving Land to Saving It
September 27, 2010 by Ingrid Hawkinson
Not everyone can say they had a hand in preserving 30,000 acres of parkland. But longtime Bay Area resident Janet Santos Cobb can. Cobb helped pass a landmark East Bay park bond in 1988, and she’s been fighting for wildlands and wildlife ever since.
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Hard Time to Be an Oak
July 01, 2009 by Daniel McGlynn
About one-eighth of California’s land area is covered in oak woodlands. Despite that vast acreage, it’s hard to be an oak in California. Threats to oak survival include the effects of fire management, increased pressure from booming rodent and deer populations, disease, drought, competition from exotic plants, and the largest threat of all, development…
Sudden Oak Death Update, Oak Art Benefit
October 01, 2002 by Sara Marcellino
The aggressive pathogen Phytophthora ramorum that causes Sudden Oak Death (SOD) continues to spread, adversely affecting more and more oak …
