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By PAUL ROGERS | Palo Alto Daily News, Calif. | Published: December 11, 2020 PALO ALTO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) For decades, the area was covered with asphalt, railroad tracks and warehouses as part of an Army base. But now a new project is transforming the landscape back to wetlands, creeks and trails for birds, fish, crabs and other wildlife and for outdoor lovers. Marking the most recent step forward in the decades-long effort to turn back the clock along San Francisco s waterfront to a more natural state not seen since the 1800s, planners on Friday are unveiling a new $23 million wetlands restoration project at the Presidio. The project has converted seven acres next to Crissy Field in an area adjacent to Presidio Parkway called Quartermaster Reach.
Streetwise: Alive and Well at 50+
by Frank Dunnigan Frank Dunnigan, WNP member and columnist. -
Many of us are shocked when we read or hear about beloved old San Francisco businesses and landmarks that have vanished in fact, such losses tend to be a recurring theme in this column. This month, though, it’s time to recall just a few of the many great places that still remain splendid survivors from another age, all of them 50+ years old and filled with memories that draw us back again and again to enjoy good times and to share our experiences with others.
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He would later explain his motivation for pioneering the ritual walk: “I felt it was time to take not just another hike on Mt. Tam, the guardian peak for the Bay and for the City as I had done so many times but to do it with the intent of circling it, going over it, and doing it with the formality and respect I had seen mountain walks given in Asia.” Starting at Redwood Creek in Muir Woods, the three Beat poets walked clockwise around the mountain, stopping to chant at 10 “stations” notable spots along the route that were selected spontaneously for what the poets considered their special power before closing the loop back at the creek.
The Point Reyes National Seashore has a new superintendent.
Come January, Craig Kenkel, who grew up on a farm in Iowa and has spent his career working for the National Park Service, will take up the reins. Mr. Kenkel currently serves as the superintendent of Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio, one of a small handful of units in the country where the park leases land for farming.
The transition comes after Cicely Muldoon, who has filled the post for the past decade, accepted a permanent position at Yosemite National Park last month, after filling in there since January. The seashore has had a string of acting superintendents in recent years as Ms. Muldoon took up temporary leadership roles in Yosemite and elsewhere.