"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Last Saturday was by far the most beautiful day of the year for multiple reasons: – An incredible weather – 45 volunteers came including members of the YMSL and the Masterworks Chorale – 256 lbs of trash were collected (including 22 lbs of recycling) It looks like everyone had a lot of fun and was impressed by the amount of […]
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Alfonso, one of our newest Earth Heroes, ran the 2015 Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon on Saturday, February 1st. This amazing 23-year old decided to raise funds for the Pacific Beach Coalition to support more learning experiences through our programs and events. He setup a Go Fund Me account to collect more than $2,050 which will go the Pacific Beach Coalition to continue to provide stewardship opportunities […]
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Jeff C. wrote: Did some hiking with my dog around Mussel Rock today. The storms and tide action have caused a lot of beach erosion along with rockfalls and mudslides. Part of the beach about 1/3 mile north of the beach access point is completely gone. The sand is gone and it’s down to the rocks now. Judging from the […]
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This year’s 18th Annual beach planting and cleanup at Linda Mar State beach on Saturday, January 17th was truly a COMMUNITY effort! Members of the Pacific Beach Coalition and volunteers did double duty, picking up trash on the beach, then planting natives in the dunes. Three organizations donated lots of beautiful plants: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (GGNPC), The Watershed Nursery & […]
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Remember when you came to help us install a fence to protect the Snowy Plovers back in August 2014? Well, our volunteers discovered a special treat at Saturday’s beach planting & cleanup. Sixteen Snowy Plovers were spotted hunkered down in the sand outside of their fence or foraging for kelp flies and beach hoppers. Last year no more than 8 were spotted at one […]
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Jeff, our devoted Mussel Rock volunteer, found a Go Pro 3 on January 1st. He extracted the Memory card and recovered some pictures. If it is you, contact us, we would be happy to give you your pictures back! Jeff wrote: I believe the owner of this camera was a surfer who lost the camera at the south end of […]
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“Jeff Christner always finds some interesting items down on the rip rap. Always lots of buoys, rope and fishing equipment,” says Julie Walters Brownell, Mussel Rock’s co-site captain. And indeed, Jeff has been volunteering for 6 years along with his son Paxton and developed a very good eyes for the most unusual pieces of litter. Both of them are the […]
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17 students from Compass High School in San Francisco cleaned Linda Mar beach today. We picked up 22 lbs of trash, it does not seem like a lot, but at Linda Mar most of the litter are tinny little pieces and styrofoam, so 22 lbs represent a large volume of trash. Well done guys and thank you for coming!
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Did You Know? Pacifica’s beaches have been in the smoke-free zone since 2006. Spread the word to help keep harmful butt litter out of the environment and protect our beautiful coastline! Read more about the campaign that created Northern California’s first smoke-free beaches and pier, and about the toxic impact You can make a difference by supporting our current campaign […]
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“Vanishing of the Bees” Friday Night Documentary Film Night highlighting threatened bees with special guest Loret Farris of the Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County. Held in partnership with Pacifica Libraries, Sharp Park Library on Hilton Way, Pacifica – 7:00pm The movie examines the issue of Colony Collapse Disorder, which has caused startling numbers of honeybees to disappear in recent years. […]
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