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The Committee is Watching...
Committee for Green Foothills' Legislative Advocates
and volunteers juggle multiple projects to protect the environment in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. In addition to those projects described in
this issue's articles, the Committee is watching:
...use of fines from the 1998 Command tanker oil spill
off the San Mateo County Coast, including planning for the Coastal Trail at Mirada Surf, accessway
improvements at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve and Half Moon Bay State Beaches, and controls for jays and ravens, which prey on threatened marbled murrelets. ...CGF founder, guiding light and environmental champion Lois Crozier-Hogle, who recently celebrated her
90th birthday. Shine on, Lois -- you are a model for us all! ...the central California population of the
California tiger salamander, which the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is considering for listing as endangered, thus providing protections under the
federal Endangered Species Act. ...the
San Mateo County Farm Bureau, which has endorsed the application by the
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
to expand its boundaries to include 140,000 acres on the San Mateo County Coast and thus protect coastal open space and agricultural operations. ...nonprofit management consultant Marge Sentous, who led
our board through a professional, exhaustive, and successful search for our new Executive Director. ...the 183 CGF members who made special year-end
gifts to support open space advocacy. Thank you! ...volunteer videographers Kendy Dickman and Tom Daniell, who taped our Environmental Forums
last fall so the panelists' discussions could be rebroadcast on local public access cable. ...the San Mateo County Planning Commission, which continues to hold hearings on tasks relating to the update of the
MidCoast Local Coastal Plan, an important document guiding protection of the coastal zone. ...Caltrans,
which has funding and is now seeking permits for the construction of the Devil's Slide tunnels project
on Highway 1; the agency believes it might break ground on the tunnels this year, and has finalized portal designs featuring natural-looking rock surfaces that will blend with the environment. ...
CGF Office Manager Andi Fray, who will be on leave for two months caring for her new baby daughter and newest CGF member, Josette Marlow Fray. ...a recent statewide non-partisan poll
by the Public Policy Institute of California, which found that a large majority of Californians want tougher environmental protections for coastal resources, and that the environment should be an important priority for our new governor.
...Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who can appoint one-third of the commissioners on the California Coastal Commission
; nominations for the coveted spots were due at the end of February. ...the 250 visitors a day who find the CGF website,
www.GreenFoothills.org, a great resource for speaking up
on open space issues, reading the latest news, reviewing CGF's victories and defeats and
renewing their memberships online.
Published March 2004 in
Green Footnotes.
Page last updated March 8, 2004 . |
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