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DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation has announced the election of four new members to its Board of Directors including; Caryl Hart, PhD, Dawn Wright, PhD, Keith Tuffley, and Stephen H. Lockhart, MD, PhD. The new Board of Directors appointments took place between February last year and January this year.
Caryl Hart - Caryl is Commissioner, California Coastal Commission appointed by Speaker Anthony Rendon in 2019, and currently serves as Interim General Manager of the Sonoma County Agricultural and Open Space District. Caryl is an attorney with more than 25 years of advocacy, parks acquisition and management, scholarship and administrative experience. She served for 13 years as a member of the California State Parks Commission, including seven years as Chair. In 2014, Dr. Hart was appointed by then-Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the Parks Forward Commission to assist in forming a sustainable pat
COVID-19: California May Not Reach Herd Immunity for Years
Between new variants, unreliable vaccine supplies and uneven access to doses, it may take months or even years longer than anyone would like to hit herd immunity. It’s possible the nation may never get there. by Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle / February 22, 2021 People wear protective face coverings against the coronavirus while walking on the Santa Monica Pier on June 29, 2020. L.A. County has surged past 100,000 cases of coronavirus. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/TNS) TNS
(TNS) - If everything goes according to plan, much of California could come close to herd immunity levels of vaccination by late summer. Within weeks, the effects could be dramatic: very low case rates, people comfortably allowed to gather again, maybe even some looser rules around mask-wearing.
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Bechtel Fest 8
Chicago s Broken Nose Theatre company presents a series of online plays; the annual festival of new short plays features an ensemble of femme, female-identifying, non-binary, trans and queer actors talking about things other than men; free, thru March 26. https://brokennosetheatre.com/
Broadway on AirBnB
Promotional-sponsored performances by a variety of talents: Tittus Burgess, cast members from
Moulin Rouge, Mrs. Doubtfire, and more, plus dance, yoga, tarot and circus classes. $10-$50. www.airbnb.com
Broadway Performers
For Broadway fans, Tony-winning performers perform new concerts, and classic shows are streamed as well. https://www.broadwayworld.com/
The Catastrophist
Marin Theatre Company s digital full-cast production of Lauren Gunderson s play based on her husband Nathan Wolfe, an award-winning virus hunter who developed a pandemic plans years before the COVID-19 pandemic. Thru Feb. 28. $30. https://www.marintheatre.org/
Bay Area political events: Gun violence town hall, anti-racist classrooms
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Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted:
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Rep. Mark DeSaulnier: Concord Democrat holds town hall meeting on gun violence. 3 p.m. Submit a question in advance here; join meeting here.
‘The Purpose of Power’ book club: Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza discusses her book “The Purpose of Power.” Hosted by Manny’s. 5 p.m. More information is here.
Eugenics: A discussion on the history of the eugenics movement in the U.S., featuring excerpts from the documentary “A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream.” Hosted by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. 6:30 p.m. More information is here.
The forest will not be open to the public. The family will continue to own the property and be allowed to conduct commercial logging at half the rate currently permitted under state laws on second-growth redwoods there, as it has done for generations. But more than 1,000 acres of land will be preserved forever, while 69 legal parcels that could have been divided into ranchettes and vineyards will be retired.
“Our vision isn’t to make a park out of every acre of redwood forest, said Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League. “We want to make sure we don’t lose any more of it.”