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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
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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!!
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(All photos by Rowena Forest unless otherwise noted)
Coit in World Series orange
The Latest
No more need to say “Go Giants”… they went! Hope you not only got to witness that fabulous Playoff and World Series run, but the unbelievable parade and ceremony in SF too, which took place on November 3rd. There’s plenty of it to check out on Youtube, or the like. Best t.v. coverage was on KTVU – ch 2. The biggest, happiest, most norcal event ever pulled-off.. and all under the national spotlight. Jeez – Giants fans have gotten super funny and creative. My all-time favorite fans were the orange-themed drag queens at one game we attended a couple of years back. This year’s costumes and signs beat all though. Hope we get to see most of the same team next year. Thanks Liverpool Lil’s for a fun game one! And thanks to Uncle Peter for lighting the hanging candles in his apple tree after each win starting in June, without a miss. You single-handedly turned the tide!
Here’s what one late night t.v. host had to say about us, and the World
Series:
"To celebrate, Giants fans had a riot back home in San Francisco.
They overturned Priuses. They were throwing bottles of biodynamically farmed
zinfandel, building huge clean-burning bonfires out of old 'Design Within
Reach' catalogs. It was a mess. There hasn't been a riot like this in San
Francisco since HBO announced 'Sex and the City' was going off the air."
Sport season for Dungeness crab is underway, and we’ve been over-enjoying
the harvest this week. Commercial starts next week. Here’s a link to
a good 2010 crab season article in today’s SF Chronicle. If the link
doesn’t hold water, look up the Chronicle online for November 11, 2010
– Crab Season to Get Cracking…:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/11/BU3F1GA1SE.DTL&type=living
An abbreviated natural history of the Dungeness crab:
http://baynature.org/articles/web-only-articles/time-for-dungeness-crab
Crab pots ready to go
Please check out our new photos on the Coastal Zone Photo Album. New ones are located at the bottom of the page/album.
Here are a few news items and links:
Marin IJ October 14, 2010 Editorial – We Must Avoid Commercializing
Our Wilderness:
http://www.marinij.com/opinion/ci_16339329?IADID=Search-www.marinij.com-www.marinij.com
(From Jake Sigg’s Nature News)
Golden Gate National Parks Association:
We need your help on a very important issue that is brewing in one of our
national seashores. The National Park Service is deciding whether to protect
the only marine wilderness on the West Coast or allow its commercial use.
At stake is the future of Drakes Estero, an estuary within California's Point
Reyes National Seashore that is considered the ecological heart of the park.
The estuary is on track to receive full wilderness designation in 2012, but
an oyster company would like to extend its operating permit, contrary to longstanding
wilderness plans.
The National Park Service is currently accepting public comment on this issue
through November 22 at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time. Click here for additional
information:
http://www.nps.gov/pore/parkmgmt/planning_dboc_sup.htm
(From Jake Sigg’s Nature News)
East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden newsletter; includes lots of information
on the state rock, serpentine
http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=01091d83e4aa193c78a888704&id=278fd4378e&e=dc1584429c
-rowena, and the Coastal Zone CA technical crew
Photos P. Pyle
Ferndale with CA Indian Basket, 2005
