The Yodeler, newspaper of the San Francisco Bay Chapter Sierra Club

Conservation News

Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve. Photo © Steve Albano, courtesy California State Parks
Foundation.

Help save California's state parks
Don't let our state parks be shut down as pawns in California's budget politics. Help pass an initiative to guarantee them adequate long-term park funding!

San Francisco parks - for paying customers or for all?
Urban parks and recreation facilities are essential public functions for a healthy community. We pay taxes to support them because they fill a need that individuals can't.

Parking and transit in San Francisco - the intimate connection
Even in the jigsaw-puzzle/rugby-scrum hybrid of San Francisco government, the city's Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) seems like an odd duck: why (in this city only) should one agency oversee transit, parking charges, and taxis?

Hunters Point EIR could spell doom or reprieve for park and community
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will soon make a crucial decision about the Lennar Corporation's immense Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II development proposal.

Outsized soccer complex to urbanize west end of Golden Gate Park
A proposed five-field soccer complex with artificial turf and stadium-style lighting would irreparably change the western end of Golden Gate Park from a nature-centered landscape to an urbanized space.

Save Muni Summit
The Sierra Club San Francisco Group is co-sponsoring the Save Muni Summit, organized by the new organization Save Muni.

East Bay Bus Rapid Transit advancing to key decision
Berkeley, Oakland, and San Leandro to specify local alternatives

Don't let Urban Growth Boundary go to the dogs
Giant kennel doesn't belong in Alameda County open space

Restored South Bay salt marsh. Photo by Sandra Stewart.

Decision time for Patterson Ranch
Some time in March or April the Fremont City Council is expected to vote whether to approve development at Patterson Ranch.

Historic hillside protections may be back on the ballot in Union City
Once again the beautiful grassy and oak-studded hills on the eastern side of Union City are under attack by developers.

Newark Council studies choice: housing and golf versus wetlands
Newark's Area 4 (the former Whistling Wings and Pintail Duck Clubs) is the wrong place for massive development.

Albany's shoreline planning is coming to another crossroads
After almost two years of work, the city's consultant for the Waterfront Visioning process will present her conclusions to the City Council.

Port of Oakland 2008. Photo by Kent Lewandowski

Cleaner air at Port of Oakland
West Oakland to breathe better with new truck regulations, but truckers bear brunt of clumsy implementation.