Agate Beach County Park in Bolinas, and other Marin parks will get more money after Marin voters approved a sales tax increase. Photo: Colleen Proppe

Marin parks get more money, Annadel tamps down “outlaw” trails

by Alison Hawkes

April 15, 2013

Happy Tax Day! Take a coffee break with Bay Area nature news:

Marin adds $5.2 million to county parks budget thanks to voter referendum last fall. [Marin Independent Journal]
What’s the cheapest, most ecologically sensitive way to protect Marin from sea level rise? [Marin Independent Journal]
Citizen science effort to track Sudden Oak Death in Bay Area. [San Jose Mercury News]
Marin’s Alpine Club turns 100. [Marin Independent Journal]
Community Supported Agriculture, CSAs, exist as an unregulated market in CA. Should there be some ground rules? [San Mateo Daily Journal]
SF mulls creation of urban agriculture czar to streamline establishment of new farms, gardens. [San Francisco Examiner]
Annadel State Park officials try to tamp down on use of “outlaw” trails. [Santa Rosa Press Democrat]
Chevron admis safety oversights, poor record keeping led to massive refinery blaze last summer. [Contra Costa Times]

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.