Cupertino’s McClellan Ranch Park, site of a new environmental education center to be opened in 2014. Photo by Britta Heise.

McClellan Ranch, textbooks and a poaching ring

by Alison Hawkes

October 29, 2012

Time for Monday’s nature news digest:

Cupertino approves funding to jumpstart building of environmental education center at McClellan Ranch Preserve. [Peninsula Press]
Sonoma Land Trust readying for $4.2 m wetland restoration along San Pablo Bay. [Petaluma 360]
California educators revise public school textbooks to reverse chemical industry’s input on recycling and plastic bag use. [Bay Citizen]
Backers of Hetch Hetchy ballot initiative say opponents are deceiving public with television ads. [San Francisco Examiner]
California Department of Fish & Wildlife uncovered a poaching ring of deer, elk and boar that was sold to private buyers in Northern California. [Sacramento Bee]
In Marin sales tax measure for parks funding, a tax group objects to the county’s land trust funding the “Yes” campaign. [Marin Independent Journal]

About the Author

Alison Hawkes was a Bay Nature editor from 2011-2017. Before Bay Nature she worked in journalism for more than a decade as a former newspaper reporter turned radio producer turned web editor with each rendition bringing her closer to her dream of covering environmental issues. She co-founded Way Out West, a site dedicated to covering Bay Area environmental news.