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Category Archives: Environment
A Guide to California's Proposed Ban on Smoking in Apartments
It’s move-in day. You’re sitting in the great new condo you just bought. And suddenly you catch a whiff of cigarettes coming from next door. If you’re a healthy-living type, your home-buyer happiness may be gone in a puff of … Continue reading
California Releases First Details of $23 Billion Delta Tunnel Plan
Gosia Wozniacka, Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California water officials released on Thursday the first part of a $23 billion plan to restore and protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem and guarantee a stable water supply for millions of … Continue reading
The Bird vs. the Bypass: Tree-Sitter Fights Mendocino Highway Project
By Deborah Svoboda If you want to talk face-to-face to Warbler, you have to be OK with heights. Warbler, the name adopted by a 24-year-old farmer, is living indefinitely in a ponderosa pine on the southern outskirts of Willits, up … Continue reading
Confusion in San Francisco's Chinatown Over Shark-Fin Ban
By Caitlin Esch and Rachael Marcus San Francisco Chinatown merchants and community leaders met with officials from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife this week after several local businesses were cited for selling off their supply of now-banned shark … Continue reading
$8 Million Makeover Planned at Tahoe's Camp Richardson
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP)— Redevelopment plans for a popular Lake Tahoe campground and resort dating to the 1930s would eliminate parking along busy Highway 89 and cut the number of camp sites by nearly one-third, but offer year-round camping … Continue reading
National Parks' Benefit to Bay Area: $445 Million
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Point Reyes Station, a pastoral West Marin outpost, has a population of 848. But on one recent weekday, parking is tight on the town’s main street and there is a steady stream of foot traffic. Steve Costa, co-owner of Point … Continue reading
Up in the Air With a Mendocino County Tree-Sitter
"Warbler" is a 24-year-old goat farmer who has decided to make her home in a ponderosa pine near the Mendocino County town of Willits in hopes she can help head off a big Caltrans highway project. The agency has already … Continue reading
News Pix: Bay Area Faces Sequester Cuts, Bay Lights Magic and Birds of Berkeley's Marina
Artist Leo Villareal controls the Bay Lights with his laptop. (Cy Musiker/KQED) On Wednesday, author and photographer Elaine Miller Bond captured this shot of "hundreds, probably thousands, of seabirds (mostly cormorants) sitting on the old pilings at the far end … Continue reading
California Water: From African Skies to Sierra Nevada Snow
It's March 1, which means Northern California is past its driest January-February period on record. Of course, the long-range forecast looks dry, too. So our question, as state water officials report on a Sierra snowpack that has fallen far short of … Continue reading
California Ocean Reserves Show Promising Results for Marine Life
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A groundbreaking network of marine reserves off the California coast are showing promising results, according to scientists meeting in Monterey this week. The results come five years after the state set up the first group of “marine protected areas”—zones where … Continue reading
