Please join me at a public workshop on restoring access at Martin’s Beach next Monday, July 20, hosted by our friends at the Surfrider Foundation. This meeting will help inform the State Lands Commission’s negotiations with property owner Vinod Khosla, as they work to restore long-term public access to this popular beach. What You Can...
On April 4, 2015, several Committee for Green Foothills board and staff members, along with Ollie Mayer’s family, the San Mateo County Parks Department, the California Coastal Conservancy, Caltrans, San Mateo County Supervisors Carole Groom, Don Horsley, and Dave Pine, Congresswoman Jackie Speier, and many other local leaders, came together at Devil’s Slide to pay...
This spring marks the one-year anniversary of the release of Deep Roots, Green Future, our 50-year vision for our region’s coast, forests, creeks, bay, hillsides, farmland, and urban areas. We are pleased to say that we’ve already made real progress towards the goals set out in Deep Roots, Green Future. One of our five goals...
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...
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...
2014 has been another eventful year for Committee for Green Foothills. We have celebrated many wins for the protection of local open space and nature. Thanks to the support of our members, in 2014 we: Helped pass not one, but two critical ballot measures providing needed funding to our local open space districts. We were...
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