Open Space Collection

Items

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  "Alpine Crescent" petition

  request to committees to designate the area permanent open space
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  Betsy Crowder's essay

  How I Became an Environmentalist;
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  Blue Heron Pond

  Lund photo of pond on Spring Down Park
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  Coal Mine Ridge

  excerpt from Life on the San Andreas Fault telling about the ridge and its inhabitants;
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  Committee for Green Foothills

  members and friends celebrating in the foothills under oak branches; Open space preservation
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  E. O. Wilson quote

  importance of adding small pieces of open space; from The Diversity of LIfe
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  First Donation

  First major donations to the Portola Valley Trust for Conservations
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  Frog Pond area as Open Space

  Argument for assigning open space designation to the road remnant and other areas around Frog Pond
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  Frog Pond- Open Space?

  Discussion between Wolter and Breen
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  Frog Pond-Alpine Rd. plan

  Recommendation to make a new open space dedication along Alpine Rd, including maps
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  Jim Johnson

  With stone marker; SF Creek streamkeeper
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  Jim Johnson

  With corn stalk; SF Creek streamkeeper
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  Kelley gift

  Ryland Kelley, Ward Paine shaking hands, Kent Mitchell and 2 others; POST accepting Windy Hill
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  kudos for maintaining open space

  editorial in Palo Alto Times lauding Portola Valley residents;
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  Lennie Roberts Honored

  Environmental Hero, Sierra Club
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  Letter from Joe Whelan

  advocates careful retention of the Frog Pond
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  Mader, Windy Hill trails

  memo to Goerge Mader on the history of the trails; Hamm,Goat Ranch, Elery Brown, school trails
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  Mary Hufty speech

  Earth Day speech and PV roles
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  Missing Person on Windy Hill

  A folder of articles about Elaine McKinley, a hiker who disappeared
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  Priority Conservvation Area Rules

  Description and photo examples
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  Softky on Environmental Movement

  Folder of video with Lund and Bacon interviewing Marion Softky on Bay Area groups
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  Spring Down Open Space

  Report on acquisition and development of pond, photos included
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  Spring Ridge, history of ownership

  Jones, Hamm, Brown, Law, Kreiss, Fitzhugh, Cooney, Orton, Hatfield, Greenwood, Connolley, Rosenfeld, Crary, Gambetta, Bozzo, Neylan, Cooney;
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  Springdown Farm Open Space proposal

  Air photo of Springdown Farm with proposed open space outlined
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  Stegner quotes

  quotes on the importance of open space;
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  Trust for Consrvation

  Development of Board and Officers
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  Video of Marion Softky

  Marion's review of 50 years of environmental protections: her "magnum opus";
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  Western Hills Chart

  Time line of lland transactions in Windy Hill vicinity;
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  Windy Hill gift

  photo of Ryland Kelley, Ward Paine, Kent Mitchell, county officials ;