Updated: 09/17/201
When I was in my late teens I used to play golf at the Sharp Park Golf Course, located in the suburb of the same name about 15 miles south of San Francisco on the coast highway. The course is municipal one owned by the City of San Francisco.
The links are on both sides of Hwy 1, cozying up to a beach on the west side and resting against the Coast Range on the other. The lowland portion near the beach is swampy, a remnant of what had once been a large wetland.
In San Francisco, Supervisor John Avalos wants to close the Sharp Park Golf Course and make it a natural preserve for the endangered San Francisco garter snake, and the federally protected red-legged frog. This will not be without controversy among golfers who enjoy the relatively reasonable rates available at the golf course. The Supervisor's proposal raises issues I have thought about over the last several years.
When I was in my late teens I used to play golf at the Sharp Park Golf Course, located in the suburb of the same name about 15 miles south of San Francisco on the coast highway. The course is municipal one owned by the City of San Francisco.
The links are on both sides of Hwy 1, cozying up to a beach on the west side and resting against the Coast Range on the other. The lowland portion near the beach is swampy, a remnant of what had once been a large wetland.
In San Francisco, Supervisor John Avalos wants to close the Sharp Park Golf Course and make it a natural preserve for the endangered San Francisco garter snake, and the federally protected red-legged frog. This will not be without controversy among golfers who enjoy the relatively reasonable rates available at the golf course. The Supervisor's proposal raises issues I have thought about over the last several years.
It is estimated that over 99 percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. Some of that extinction is a result of natural processes, some caused by natural disasters such as meteor strikes, and some by humankind. As climates change, new predators arise, and habitats are destroyed, some species pay the consequences; when you add to that volcanic eruptions, large meteor strikes, and severe climate change because of obscured sunlight, you have a formula for change. nvades.Humankind also plays a role as it intrudes on "natural habitats" and modifies the ecologies it invades.
Humankind occasionally has a guilty conscience about its role and takes steps to reverse the damage it may have caused. Condors are raised in captivity and released into the wild. Sea otter habitats are protected. Sharks are the subject of legislation to prevent removal of their fins.
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Posted by Steve Sinai
2 comments:
Huh??
Who's Lois and where does she live?
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