"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Latest Update: Email Sent to Lynn from our Matson Contact. “Thanks for the nonprofit info. I can now confirm that Matson Foundation will make a contribution of $5,000 to your organization in early 2016 as a gesture of our appreciation for the support you and your members have shown Matson in the wake of our container loss event, and for […]
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Why should you be able to go to aisle 4 for medicines to heal you and aisle 1 for tobacco to kill you? “Daly City’s elected officials recently moved to amend the town’s already-strict smoking ordinance to further restrict the sale, distribution and use of tobacco products. In a unanimous vote, the City Council agreed to prohibit the sale of tobacco […]
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The California King Tides Project help people visualize how sea level rise will impact their lives. Via smartphones and social media, we invite you to document “king tides” – the highest high tides of today, which will be the average water levels of the future. Everyone is welcome to participate! Our shores are constantly being altered by human and natural processes […]
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The first confirmed sighting of an endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle this season occurred on Saturday, Aug. 15th near Pedro Point in Pacifica, Calif according to Sea Turtle Island Restoration Network. Leatherbacks, like the one spotted, migrate across the entire Pacific Ocean, over 6,500 miles each way, to feed on jellyfish along our Pacific Coast. Captain Roger Thomas of the […]
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This fish crate, found on the rocks/rip-rap area on July 25th, 2015 during the monthly Mussel Rock cleanup, has been confirmed by NOAA and the Japanese Consulate as being from the 2011 Japanese Tsunami. It should be noted that many possible/probable debris have washed up in the Bay Area, but few have the proper markings to be confirmed. Below is […]
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Fall is underway, and as temperatures drop and the rains (hopefully) begin to roll in, there are a number of garden tasks to complete now that will prepare your space for Winter and even Spring. Around the bee hives – Check for colony size and combine small ones. Come spring it is better to have one live colony than two dead […]
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Thank you again to all the volunteers who joined us for Coastal Cleanup Day and helped us clean the beaches and streets from Daly City to Half Moon Bay! What we will remember from the Coastal Cleanup Day 2015: These were actually picked up in 2 hours in Pacifica from our beaches, streets, parking lots and bluffs. Not everyone saved […]
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We won the Most Creative Walking Group Award of 2015! Thank you all so much for supporting PBC, clean shores and most importantly, supporting our BEES. The Pacific Coast Fog Fest was created in 1986 to promote the City of Pacifica and to celebrate its marvelous coast and community. Fog Fest now attracts up to 80,000 festival-goers and it is a […]
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Celebrate Sea Otter Awareness Week at the California Academy of Sciences from September 19–September 27. Stop by the Project Lab to see unique sea otter specimens, drop by the Naturalist Center for some hands-on sea otter fun, and look for other special activities on the public floor all week.
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THANK YOU! These are still preliminary results from our 20+ sites going from Mussel Rock Daly City to Tunitas Creek Half Moon Bay; 1305 volunteers, 1942 lbs of trash, 494 lbs of recycles, ~400 lbs of metal scrap from Mavericks, over 21,000 cigarette butts, and a whole lot of FUN for everyone! And for the volunteers who missed the […]
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