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Policy
Putting Nature on the Balance Sheet
September 24, 2014 •
Three Bay Area counties —Santa Clara, Sonoma and Santa Cruz — have found a way to put these values of nature onto a balance sheet.
Award-Winning Filmmaker Discusses Upcoming Wilderness Anniversary
July 2, 2014 •
Filmmaker Steve Dunsky usually spends his time behind the camera not in front of it. Now and then, however, he steps into public view. As one of the main creative forces behind the 50th anniversary celebration of the Wilderness Act … Read more
Could this be the end of California’s drift gillnet fishing?
April 16, 2014 •
The tide may be finally turning against the use of drift gillnets off California waters. WARNING: Disturbing images.
California’s New Fracking Law Divides Environmentalists
September 27, 2013 •
California’s new fracking law is the first of its kind in the nation to regulate this method of tight oil extraction.
GGNRA mulls plastic water bottle ban
April 4, 2013 •
GGNRA is under pressure to join growing number of national parks that ban the sale of plastic water bottles.
Do the Presidio’s New Dog Walking Rules Go Far Enough?
April 2, 2013 •
Limits on commercial dog walkers in the Presidio has some nature lovers questioning: Should they be allowed at all?
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SF to Shift Street Tree Care to Property Owners
July 20, 2011 •
Due to looming city budget cuts, SF Mayor Ed Lee recently produced a budget package that cut $300,000 from street tree care. The proposal would shift the city’s responsibility for 24,000 trees in front of private property onto the property owners over the next seven years.
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SF Aims to Make City Safer for Birds
July 14, 2011 •
Every year in North America, a billion birds die by colliding with windows, buildings, and communication towers. Many of these deaths could be avoided by doing things like tinting windows and turning off lights between dusk and dawn. A proposed new city policy, would aim to better protect birds in San Francisco, which has more than 400 bird species and sits right on the Pacific Flyway.
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Sharp Park Debate Hastens Citywide Biodiversity Policy
June 15, 2011 •
The ongoing debate over protected species at San Francisco’s Sharp Park golf course in Pacifica seems to have accelerated a long-simmering effort to enact a citywide biodiversity policy. But with enactment two years away, Sharp Park’s fate may be decided before the new rules take effect.