Posts Tagged ‘open space’

LEARN ABOUT THE WETLANDS

March 26, 2008

Gerrie Schipske says there’s never TMI
Responding to Dave Wielenga’s coyote-coddling, wetlands-wanting piece in the print edition of today’s District Weekly, Fifth District Councilmember Schipske comments:
“I don’t think there has been enough public input on the SEADIP* so I am hosting a meeting at Emerson Elementary on April 7th so that the public can come and [...]

WITH HOPE AS STRONG AS CERTAINTY

March 26, 2008

While people decide the fate of Long Beach’s hidden wilderness, a coyote keeps hunting the wetlands

PHOTO by JENNY STOCKDALE
Not far away, a coyote with a coat as dense and red-brown as the marshland brush was sprinting silently across a wide tidal flat toward unsuspecting seabirds, his footprints dissolving into the water-logged sand the instant he [...]

THE BATTLE FOR ARMORY PARK

January 9, 2008

How one man’s mission to transform a downtown street into open space became a mass movement. And how one city official has stalled it.

BRIAN ULASZEWSKI by RUSS ROCA
Although that’s not its official name, and may never be—even if the southernmost block of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue really does become a park someday, instead of [...]

 

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