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Heron's Head Eco Center Breaks Ground
The new Eco Center at Heron's Head Park broke ground April 22, and got some great press from the San Francisco Sentinel, Fog City Journal, and SF Bay Guardian, to name a few. The EcoCenter will be the first LEED-certified building in the southern part of the city and first building to run completely off the grid in San Francisco. To get involved in the Heron's Head Park project, contact Laurie Schoeman at Literacy for Environmental Justice.
Spring is here and so are the California Grunion. Grunion Greeters also return for the 7th year in 2008. This award-winning group of citizen scientists monitors the coastline for the elusive California Grunion, in collaboration with numerous individuals, aquariums, environmental groups, educational organizations and government agencies.
Free training workshops are open to anyone age 18 or older willing to spend a few hours on the beach monitoring the grunion during spawning runs. The Oakland workshop will be held on Monday May 5.
For more information, please visit www.Grunion.org or view the PDF. To RSVP for the workshop in Oakland please send an e-mail to grunion@pepperdine.edu.
The San Francisco Beekeepers' Association is dedicated to helping beekeepers and those interested in bees. Meetings are held every month at the Randall Museum, for anyone who is interested. Check out their website at www.sfbee.org
Calaveras Dam Project May Have Harmful Steelhead Impact
Alameda Creek Alliance
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced this month that a formal consultation under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) will be required for a federal permit sought by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to rebuild the seismically challenged Calaveras Dam in upper Alameda Creek. In an April 4 letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NMFS (the federal agency responsible for marine species listed under the ESA) rejected the SFPUC’s contention and the Corps’ determination that the Calaveras Dam project will have no impact on steelhead trout.
“The National Marine Fisheries Service has rightly determined that the Calaveras Dam project has potential impacts to restoration of steelhead trout in Alameda Creek that must be addressed before a federal permit is issued,” said Jeff Miller, Director of the Alameda Creek Alliance. “We support San Francisco making needed retrofits to its water system; however SFPUC dams currently operate in violation of state wildlife protection laws, and to rebuild a major dam without a commitment to provide adequate water releases to allow restoration of steelhead trout to downstream habitat in Alameda Creek is unacceptable.”
To read the full press release, click here.
Volunteer Opportunities
Wednesday April 30
Presidio Park Stewards @ West Crissy Bluffs
California Native Plant Society
Presidio Nursery
Thursday May 1
Crissy Field Landscape
Lands End Stewards
Friday May 2
Presidio Plant Patrol @ North Baker Beach
Saturday May 3
Mt. Sutro Stewards
Buena Vista Restoration
Friends of Mt. Davidson
Presidio Park Stewards @ Lobos Creek
Fort Funston
Friends of Lake Merced
Lands End Stewards
Presidio Nursery
San Bruno Mountain- Brisbane Acres
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