Posts by Ilana DeBare
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Birding, Conservation, Golden Gate Audubon
By Ilana DeBare
Good news! The City of Oakland just added a set of Bird Safety Measures to its building permit requirements – becoming the third major city in North America to adopt such standards.
Golden Gate Audubon Society approached Oakland city planners and asked them to develop bird safety guidelines last winter. GGAS Conservation Project Manager Noreen Weeden provided advice on the details an…
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Conservation, Golden Gate Audubon
By Ilana DeBare
Last month we wrote about the Caltrans netting on a Petaluma bridge construction site that was trapping and killing dozens of Cliff Swallows.
Many Golden Gate Audubon members — as well as other conservation groups — wrote to Caltrans asking it to adopt less lethal methods of keeping birds from nesting on the bridge during construction. But Caltrans hasn’t list…
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Conservation, Golden Gate Audubon
By Ilana DeBare
For the past two years, we’ve been fighting plans by the city of San Francisco to create artificial-turf soccer fields with stadium-style lighting in western Golden Gate Park, an area that was intended in city plans to remain more natural and less developed.
We lost a round in this battle last summer before the city’s planning and parks commissions.
But next week, the issue …
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Conservation
By Ilana DeBare
There has been so much deeply horrific news this week — the Boston bombings, the spineless Senate, the Texas fertilizer fire. It might seem hard to care about two dead goslings.
But these goslings were in our backyard, so to speak, swimming in the bay a few feet offshore of San Francisco’s Crissy Field on Wednesday.
And they died a completely gratuitous death in the jaws of sever…
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Conservation
By Ilana DeBare
Dozens of Cliff Swallows are being killed each week by a Caltrans contractor in Petaluma — even though alternative technologies are available that would keep the swallows safe.
Sonoma County bird lovers are up in arms over the killings, in which swallows are being trapped in netting installed on a Highway 101 bridge by contractor C.C. Myers.
They’re asking other wildlife lo…
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