Thanks for tuning-in to Coastal Zone CA! Our
site endeavors to log the character of coastal California’s natural
and human history, as well as to highlight the contributions of locals of
the land doing great work and having fun. Please check for regular updates.
In the Zone Interview
we visit salt of the earth and hear their stories, in the Real
World we examine pieces of the natural history of coastal
California, and in Coastal
Roots we share a bit of California’s maritime history.
A BIG THANK YOU to the ultimate Zone Local - Zephyr Forest
- for constructing the Coastal Zone CA website!!
Yay for hi-tech teenagers!!
Enjoy
The Latest – Late Winter, 2009
Welcome to the launching of Coastal Zone CA – this site gives me the
opportunity to share a deep love for my home and the home of my ancestors.
It gives me the opportunity to share the experiences and lessons I’ve
learned of the land and sea, and to share the great people I’ve met
along the way. My background is in Californian botanical field work, historic
ecology research, environmental education, research and tracking of issues
effecting California’s marine sanctuaries, and extensive exploration
and volunteer work in the natural landscape of California’s coast and
coastal islands. I grew up on the beaches and trails of rural West Marin and
later on Sausalito’s waterfront of harbors, houseboats and residences
on the other side of the tracks. I have been fortunate to live my life at
the water’s edge, and to raise my children there. I have a distinct
interest in seeing the quieter, natural side of our coastal life and coastal
home preserved somehow – in any way possible and in many ways.
It’s late winter and it’s FINALLY RAINING! It brings great relief emotionally.. we’ll keep our fingers crossed it keeps going for a while. I’m ignoring the nay-sayers and media reporting it isn’t enough. My dad was remembering one very dry winter in the ‘80’s that did this – a non-existent winter and certain drought, then the rains unleashed in late winter and continued into the spring. May be one of La Nina’s many faces – we’ll see.
In this edition of Coastal Zone CA we talk to Mike Heiner – Sausalito scallywag and coastal historian extraordinaire; we take a look at my personal favorite CA coastal landform and habitat zone: coastal terraces, and we look into the state of small and historic marine labs of California. Although there are a couple of areas of the website that are still under construction and will be up soon (an evolving photo album, and the addition of restoration site listings to our Connections page) we are proud of the new Coastal Zone CA website!
Happy Rains,
-Rowena, and the Coastal Zone CA crew
Photos P. Pyle
Ferndale with CA Indian Basket, 2005
