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The salt marsh harvest mouse and the California clapper rail are both endangered species living near East Palo Alto’s Cooley Landing. Their presence may slow plans to turn the vacant property into a park.
In the second installment in the Peninsula Press StayCations series, we visit Ano Nuevo State Park, the winter home for a colony of over 2,000 northern elephant seals.
After a falling branch nearly struck a man and arborists ruled more trouble is likely, Palo Alto’s City Council voted to remove all of the mature eucalyptus trees at Eleanor Pardee Park.
After identifying sandboxes in two Redwood City parks that were contaminated with E. coli bacteria, the city is renovating the parks, removing the sandboxes and replacing them with water attractions.
The San Mateo South Bayfront Levee Improvements Project is designed to reduce flood risk for 8,000 local properties. The city’s public works department is working with FEMA to lower insurance rates in the area.
In an effort to replenish songbird populations, the City of Saratoga and the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society are teaming up to start a nestbox program in the city’s open spaces.
In 2009 the Sequoia High School baseball field got a $40,000 facelift. But it took another year and the hiring of a new coach to give the team and the program the makeover it needed.
At two parks in Redwood City, sand features have been permanently closed, due to recurring outbreaks of E. Coli bacteria in the sand itself. Renovations to change the sand to water features are underway.
A Saratoga hiking trail has reopened after a six-month project to make it wider, less steep and not as prone to erosion during the rainy season. The trail stretches from the Parker Ranch neighborhood to the Fremont Older Open Space Preserve via Saratoga Country Club.