Tag: highways

Speak up for County Parks, Highways, & Vistas
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Speak up for County Parks, Highways, & Vistas

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will soon decide whether or not to allow an assessment of county-owned property along highways 101 and 92 to identify potential sites for billboards. Please join us in urging supervisors to stop this before it starts, and reject the proposal to do an assessment. We are no longer asking people...

In the News: Opposing Broadcast Spraying of Herbicides
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In the News: Opposing Broadcast Spraying of Herbicides

Committee for Green Foothills and our Legislative Advocate Lennie Roberts were in the news this weekend. This time the topic was our work, along with other community members and environmentalists, to urge Caltrans to stop broadcast spraying herbicides along San Mateo County highways. The article also explains Caltrans’ response and decision to try a pilot...

In the News: opposing broadcast spraying
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In the News: opposing broadcast spraying

Just last week our Legislative Advocate Lennie Roberts shared an action alert, asking people to urge Caltrans to stop broadcast spraying herbicides along state highways in San Mateo County. Her letter to Caltrans was quoted in the article Opposition grows to herbicide spraying (4/2/15) by Barbara Wood  in the Almanac. The article explained how we called on Caltrans to...

Urge Caltrans to Stop Broadcast Spraying
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Urge Caltrans to Stop Broadcast Spraying

Last week I sent a letter to Caltrans District 4 urging the agency to stop broadcast spraying herbicides along state highways in San Mateo County to control weeds. San Mateo County’s natural habitats are home to over 40 endangered or threatened species, or species of special concern. We must protect them. Please join me and...

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