Protecting our environmental resources and promoting social justice
Looks like we have three solid votes for updating Tree Ordinance. Thank you. Today at the Supes meeting Supervisors Zane, Gorin, and Hopkins said a couple of times each…it needs to be on the work plan! Solid support. We submitted 480 signatures with your help. You all did it. Thank you to those who signed …
Same game play here in Sonoma County…..events are now “marketing” whether it’s weddings, business retreats or (you fill in blank)….supervisors just can’t say no. “….His main attention, though, goes to the gutting of the landmark agricultural preserve law that Napa County created in the 1960s. In Conaway’s tale, the law was undermined without a public hearing by …
http://e360.yale.edu/features/in-napa-valley-vineyards-take-a-bigger-bite-out-of-forests-and-biodiversity The steady expansion of vineyards in California’s premier wine-growing region is moving uphill into oak and other woodlands and is adversely affecting fish and wildlife. Other wine areas, from Oregon’s Willamette Valley to Mendoza in Argentina, are facing similar issues. By Alastair Bland • May 11, 2017 Kellie Anderson stands in the understory of a century-old forest …
In Napa Valley, Vineyards and Conservationists Battle for the Hills Read More »
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/no-story-of-wine-industry-under-fire/article_21223b42-3c7c-5510-828f-200a9707075a.html TOP 10 STORIES OF 2016: NO. 1 No. 1 story of 2016: Wine industry under fire BARRY EBERLING beberling@napanews.com Updated 1 hr ago Napa County in 2016 saw heated growth wars involving not ever expanding subdivisions threatening to pave over the landscape, but multiplying wineries and vineyards. These are growth wars, Napa-style. They focus …
Dear Supervisors and county planners- My family has owned first and second homes on the Russian River since the early 1950s when our region was known as the Redwood Empire. The pressures of tourism, wineries and urban growth has reached the peak carrying capacity of the Sonoma Coast. We can’t accommodate more traffic, more water …
“The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of the LCP” by Ken Sund Read More »