Scott | September 16, 2011
TweetThere’s a burgeoning city on the outskirts of the east San Francisco Bay Area. It’s an agricultural mecca that in the last decade or so has discovered what an infusion of dollars from people fleeing exorbitant costs of living on the opposite sides of the bay can do to a rural setting. It’s a city [...]
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Tags: Brentwood, burrowing owls, conservation, owls, Streets of Brentwood
Scott | July 26, 2011
TweetAntioch, CA (July 26, 2011) – Burrowing Owl Conservation Network has been awarded a grant for the manufacture of four interpretive signs to be installed at the 24-acre Prewett Family Park Burrowing Owl Habitat Preserve in Antioch, CA. The Board of Supervisors approved the Fish and Wildlife Committee’s recommendation for dispersal of grant funds from [...]
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Tags: Antioch, burrowing owls, conservation, Prewett Park, wildlife preserve
Scott | November 15, 2010
TweetI had a rough week. The weekend turned out pretty good, but damned if the five days separating Sunday and Saturday didn’t rock the boat of life a bit last week. In the most grandest of schemes it is a minor bump, but I really am expending energy on other things; so much so that [...]
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Tags: conservation, John Muir, Shelton Johnson
Scott | September 21, 2010
TweetAs I was wallowing in my musings yesterday I found intermittent opportunities to walk amongst towering trees and gaze upon virgin forested lands. I could feel the vibrations as the lungs expanded and contracted in unison with each advancing step; the sound of needles and leaves crunching under the buck’s heavy stride. The native peoples [...]
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Tags: conservation, James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, The Last of the Mohicans