Great Coastal Places hike for Marin's Tomales Dunes

Saturday, October 28, 11 am; meet at the Tomales Bakery in Tomales, at the corner of Highway One and Dillon Beach Road, to carpool to the dunes.

Sierra Club's coastal director, Mark Massara, will lead activists from throughout California on an easy and informative hike through one of the Bay Chapter's great coastal places: the Tomales Dunes.

This magnificent and relatively isolated spot lies across from the Point Reyes National Seashore and represents one of the largest unprotected stretches of dunes in the state. Sierra Club activists have been working for years to protect the dunes from the threats posed by Lawson's Landing, operating without a permit from the Coastal Commission the largest recreational-vehicle campground in all of California.

This hike will be the second in the series of statewide coastal hikes. The first took place in March, when more than 70 Club members from San Francisco, San Jose, Fresno, Los Angeles, and Monterey joined Mark to hike in Pebble Beach through the threatened Del Monte Forest. That hike and the commitment by Sierra Club activists throughout the state helped the Sierra Club's Great Coastal Places campaign win a major victory in protecting the magnificent coastal forest.

The Great Coastal Places hike series is designed to bring people together to experience our fragile, threatened coastline and to show people the simple things they can do to make a difference in protecting the coast for future generations. At Tomales Dunes we will experience a spot with sensitive dune wetlands, multiple endangered species, and a future in doubt.

Experience the beauty of the Tomales Dunes and learn how much you can do with very little time commitment.

For more information e-mail Mark at savethecoast -at- sierraclub.org or call Catherine Caufield at (415)663-9312.