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Not So Easy: The Complex Mechanisms of Conservation Easements

Not So Easy: The Complex Mechanisms of Conservation Easements This swath of Contra Costa goldfields thrived under the protection of a conservation easement. Photo courtesy of John Muir Land Trust. What do thousands of blooming Contra Costa goldfields a …

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In Sight: Vision Zero Aims to Prevent Traffic Deaths

Safety advocates have identified the intersection of Fifth and Market streets as one of the most dangerous in San Francisco. Photo by Alec MacDonald. Do you live near an intersection where cars often run red lights, or where signals don’t give pedestri …

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The Environmental and Personal Benefits of Adopting Storm Drains

Adopt a Drain volunteer Peter Crigger unclogs a storm drain in his Oakland neighborhood. Photo by Alec MacDonald. Oakland resident Peter Crigger knows that the street where he has lived for decades is prone to flooding during a big rain. “Water comes d …

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Joint Effort: Advocates Urge New Look at Transit Integration

Peter Dovak’s “City Transit” project illustrates transit networks of North America. He told CityLab that the project “highlights the need for places like the Bay Area to unify their operators, or at least make it easier to pay/transfer between systems. …

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Will Prop 64 Clip Trespass Grows?

Will Prop 64 Clip Trespass Grows? Makeshift water basins for irrigation are commonplace at trespass grows, the illegal sites of marijuana cultivation that pose grave harm to the environment. Photo courtesy the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. In No …

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New Radar System Being Developed to Help Pinpoint Flooding

The Advanced Quantitative Precipitation Information project will provide detailed and accurate forecasts about heavy rainfall events using a set of radars similar to this prototype that was temporarily installed in 2016 in the South Bay. Photo courtesy …

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Smoke Signals: Communicating with the Public about Air Quality

On Wednesday, October 11, San Francisco’s skyline was clouded with smoke from the North Bay wildfires. Photo by Alec MacDonald. On Monday, October 9, Carole Levenson complained to friends, “I woke up this morning and my building was full of smoke.” It …

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Sorting out Air Quality Regulations After Cap-and-Trade’s Renewal

Communities for a Better Environment’s Andrés Soto (in red shirt) speaks at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s board of directors meeting on September 20. A large number of stakeholders attended to participate in a lively discussion about e …

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Freeing up Fish: The Effort to Remove Barriers to Spawning Sites

The BART weir is a major barrier across Alameda Creek that will soon be retrofitted with a fish ladder. Photo courtesy of Alameda Creek Alliance. As a child growing up in the East Bay, Jeff Miller loved seeing salmon in Lagunitas Creek when he visited …

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Shoring up Birds: Providing Habitat for Pacific Flyway Migrants

Western sandpipers are one of many bird species that stop in the Bay Area when migrating along the Pacific Flyway. Photo by Ryan DiGaudio/Point Blue Conservation Science. Look, up in the sky — it’s a shorebird! “I call them ‘superheroes’,” said Matthew …

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