Open Space Happenings: 8.31.11

 Your weekly helping of Bay Area conservation news and inspiration...

 

• Training for Transit & Trails
• Bay Area Receives $30.9 Million from Prop. 84 for Regional Plan and Water Projects (Marin Municipal Water District)
• Salazar Announces $53 Million in Grants to Support Habitat Acquisition and Conservation Planning for Endangered Species (Department of the Interior)
• Plastic pollution motivated woman to rid San Francisco Bay of debris (SFGate)
• Inside Sonoma Land Trust’s purchase of Stuart Run Creek (Press Democrat)
• Native Bees Worth Billions of Dollars a year, Researchers Say (Bay Citizen)
• Carcass provides one whale of a science lesson (SFGate)
• Organic Farmers: Call for applications
• State of the Estuary Conference on September 20-21, 2011
• Slow Money Gathering on October 12-14, 2011
• Creek and Watershed Symposium on November 17, 2011
• Managing Rangelands for Multiple Ecosystem Services on January 19, 2012

 

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This is the weekly Happenings, a weekly round-up of news - with some art and fun thrown in - related to the members and friends of the Open Space Council. 

You're invited to our Fall Gathering on September 15 at the Log Cabin in the Presidio.  We're going to hear from Sam Schuchat and Amy Hutzel from the State Coastal Conservancy about what's happened over the past year as well as look forward to what's coming down the trail.  Click here to register.