Next Tuesday, June 24, the Santa Clara City Council will consider adopting an ordinance to require developers to pay fees to provide funding for parks. Please tell the City Council to vote in favor of this ordinance so that Santa Clara will have money to pay for parks. What You Can Do Come to the...
Author: Moises Mena
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Community Rallies to Save Ulistac
For the past few months Committee for Green Foothills’ Legislative Advocate, Alice Kaufman, has been organizing a coalition of environmental organizations and local residents to advocate for the protection of Santa Clara’s last remaining open space. Ulistac Natural Area, a beautiful 40-acres of irreplaceable native habitat and the result of over 20 years of volunteer...
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Tell Santa Clara: Don’t put Soccer Fields on Ulistac
Tomorrow, May 20, the City of Santa Clara’s Parks Commission will consider whether to recommend development of artificial turf soccer fields at Ulistac Natural Area. Ulistac is an environmental treasure, the last significant piece of native habitat in the Santa Clara area and the proud result of thousands of hours of volunteer restoration effort. Please...
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Logger’s axe spared at Loma Mar property
By Lennie Roberts, Legislative Advocate In a happy outcome for the long-term future of our redwood forests and outdoor education for school kids, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted in January to acquire a beautiful forested site near Loma Mar as an addition to Memorial Park. This 174-acre property had been purchased in...
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East Palo Alto Community Earth Day Celebration
By: Elizabeth Sarmiento It was the first Earth Day event for Angelica Mora. She is a Mother of two, who is originally from Mexico and now resides in East Palo Alto. “This is the first time I have ever participated in an Earth Day event. I’m really concerned about the health of our Planet, the...
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In the News as Our Efforts to Save Ulistac Continue
Legislative Advocate Alice Kaufman wrote an op-ed featured in today’s Mercury News on our ongoing efforts to save Ulistac Natural Area in the city of Santa Clara. We hope that everyone will share this story and get the word out about this threat to important native habitat. The article is available here: Ulistac in peril:...
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Our Watershed Tour in the News
Over a week ago, Committee for Green Foothills brought folks together for our annual watershed tour. Always one of our most popular events, this year was no exception and the spaces filled up in record time. The tour began at Jasper Ridge where we were able to see the Searsville Dam (photographed here) and ended...
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CGF in the News: Protecting our Hillsides
Committee for Green Foothills’ Advocate Julie Hutcheson was quoted in a recent article on the Young Ranch development project being proposed by YCS Investments. In the article Julie explains that: “this just isn’t the type of development we want anymore,” says Julie Hutcheson, an advocate for Committee for Green Foothills, another group protesting Young Ranch. “It depends...
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Join us and visit Western Pond Turtles
Event Alert You are invited to join us for a hike and picnic at Rancho Cañada del Oro Open Space Preserve on Saturday, March 29, from 9:30am – 2:30pm. This hike is a special treat as we will be going into a section of the preserve not open to the public. And, here we will hopefully get a...
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CGF in the News on the SEQ
From the article: Add the Growth Pocket: Southeast quadrant has to be addressed and included in the City’s General Plan process By Michael Moore in the Morgan Hill Times on 2/27/14 A Santa Clara County commission tasked with approving or denying the City of Morgan Hill’s Southeast Quadrant annexation issued a blistering critique of the...