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Tomorrow is SUPER TUESDAY! Don't forget to go to the polls, and make a momentous YES vote for Proposition A! Help Fix Our Parks! To read up on the proposition go to the Fix Our Parks website.  If this email is not displaying properly please click here or copy and paste this URL into your browser. (http://natureinthecity.org/NTCnews2-1(13).html) |
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| Feb. 4 | Native Bees in the East Bay 7:30 pm Montclair Presbyterian Church 5701 Thornhill Rd Oakland, CA Dr. Gordon Frankie has been conducting an urban research project to see whether urban gardens can provide some alternative habitats for California's 1600 different species of native bees. Learn about how plants that you might call weeds-- like dandelions and white clover, can be great habitat for your bee neighbors. For more information, contat Cindy Spring at (510) 655-6658 or go to Close to Home. Donation: $5 (K-12 free). |
| Feb. 9 | Basic Fruit Tree Care 10 am - 1pm Garden for the Environment 7th Avenue and Lawton Practicing proper fruit tree care will insure you reap the fruits of your labor! $15; No one turned away for lack of funds. To Pre-Register, please call (415) 731-5627 or email info@gardenfortheenvironment |
| Feb. 12 |
Discover Tennesse Hollow Watershed |
| Feb. 13 | GGNRA Big Year Presentation SF Dept of the Environment Brown Bag Series 12 pm - 1 pm 11 Grove Street San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 355-3700 Brent Plater presents an overview of the 2008 Golden Gate National Recreation Area Endangered Species Big Year Free. Open to the public. |
| Feb. 17 | Poop Pickup and Sustainable Dog Walk Sponsored by Green Dog Walks 10:30 am - 12 pm Bernal Hill For more information or to download a poster go to the Green Dog Walks website. |
| Apr. 20 | Save the Date 2nd Annual McLaren Park Earth Day |
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(Literacy for Environmental Justice)
As most of you know, Governor Schwarzenegger's FY 08-09 state budget proposes to close 48 state parks. The list includes Candlestick Point State Recreation Area,
one of the very few open spaces in Bayview Hunters Point and a critical
wetland and wildlife habitat.
Candlestick is in the midst of a multi-year remediation and restoration project addressing acute contamination from industrial and military pollution. LEJ's Native Plants Nursery at Candlestick trains youth interns from Bayview Hunters Point to grow the native plantstock for the Candlestick wetland restoration project. Closing the park throws the future of the remediation project as a whole into doubt; we urge you to find out more at The California State Parks Foundation and write to your legislators.
Candlestick is in the midst of a multi-year remediation and restoration project addressing acute contamination from industrial and military pollution. LEJ's Native Plants Nursery at Candlestick trains youth interns from Bayview Hunters Point to grow the native plantstock for the Candlestick wetland restoration project. Closing the park throws the future of the remediation project as a whole into doubt; we urge you to find out more at The California State Parks Foundation and write to your legislators.
LEJ is circling a petition that needs to have as many signatures as possible by March 1.
Nature in the City will be collecting signatures in support of keeping Candlestick Point open. You may also print off a petition form, fill it out and gather signatures, then mail it to Literacy for Environmental Justice. Shortly after the end of the month LEJ has arranged a meeting with Mark Leno's office about the potential closure and other development based threats Candlestick is facing. At the meeting they intend to deliver the petitions in person. If you have any questions or would like to get more involved call LEJ at 415-282-6840 or email Patrick.
Send signed petitions to:
Nature in the City will be collecting signatures in support of keeping Candlestick Point open. You may also print off a petition form, fill it out and gather signatures, then mail it to Literacy for Environmental Justice. Shortly after the end of the month LEJ has arranged a meeting with Mark Leno's office about the potential closure and other development based threats Candlestick is facing. At the meeting they intend to deliver the petitions in person. If you have any questions or would like to get more involved call LEJ at 415-282-6840 or email Patrick.
Send signed petitions to:
Literacy for Environmental Justice
800 Innes Ave #11
San Francisco, CA 94124
800 Innes Ave #11
San Francisco, CA 94124
Volunteer Opportunities
- from the Nature in the City Calendar
Presidio Park Stewards at Battery East
CNPS at Bayview
Presidio Nursery
Thursday February 7
Crissy Field Landscape
Lands End Stewardship
Friday February 8
Presidio Plant Patrol at Coastal Bluffs
Saturday February 9
Presidio Park Stewards
Quail on the Presidio
Heron's Head Marsh
Fort Funston Nursery
Oak Woodland's Restoration
Friends of McLaren Park
Colma Creek Restoration
Friends of Edgehill Mountain
Lands End Stewards
Presidio Nursery
For more information, contact info, and directions to natural areas go to the Community Calendar on the Nature in the City website.
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Save Oregon's Cougars
(Earth Island Institute)
Big Wildlife, one of Earth Island’s newest projects, has filed a lawsuit with several other wildlife protection organizations to stop the federal government from indiscriminately killing cougars in the state of Oregon. The plaintiffs charge that officials at the US Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services did not examine all the adverse environmental impacts of their decision to kill cougars on behalf of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act.
The plan to kill up to 2,000 cougars in Oregon will hurt ranchers and farmers. By killing established adult cougars, government officials are skewing the population towards younger cats more often implicated in conflict with domestic animals. By implementing a plan based on bad science and inaccurate cougar population estimates, officials are actually creating the problem their plan claims to address, the groups assert. Click here for more information about cougars, and read the following articles:
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Francisco Green Zebra guide, and receiving $10 of the proceeds!
Go to Green Zebra's website, and find the edition you like. Be sure to enter or mention the code NIC955 when you check out so that
we will be credited $10 for each guide you purchase.
Go to Green Zebra's website, and find the edition you like. Be sure to enter or mention the code NIC955 when you check out so that
we will be credited $10 for each guide you purchase.
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