2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 11 Feb 2006 08:44:03 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Coyote Gulch, Presidio of San Francisco
 
Miracle of Coyote Gulch
Old dump in Presidio ravine now a haven for wildlife

Jane Kay
San Francisco Chronicle
February 9, 2006


On the Presidio's western coastline, songbirds trilled and whistled in the scrubby brush on the dunes sloping down to the mouth of San Francisco Bay. With the early spring weather, courting was in full swing.


Western meadowlarks and Bewick's wrens flitted in and out of the newly opened coastal ravine with its own freshwater creek, a rich habitat that until last year had been hidden under tons of fill for nearly a century.

A new push for restoration at the Presidio is turning toxic-waste dumps into wildlife habitat. The National Park Service, using $99 million from the former owner, the U.S. Army, is fixing up the 1,480-acre Presidio an acre at a time.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/09/BAGQHH57CG1.DTL
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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