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Ducks Unlimited Strives to Bring Wetlands Back

By Bill PicturePublished: May, 2009    Memphis-based Ducks Unlimited is currently overseeing four large-scale wetland and tidal marsh restoration projects here in the Bay Area. Under DU’s guidance, tidal wetland on former commercial salt ponds along the Napa River will be restored to its original condition, as will salt marsh in Newark’s Don Edwards San […]

Alta Mira – A New View

By Mary Swift-Swan  Published: May, 2004 Is it possible to reinvent one’s self? It is for Tom Cole, the new General Manager of the Alta Mira Hotel of Sausalito. When Tom turned 40 he left a 20-year corporate management career by answering an ad to become the manager of a small boutique bed and breakfast […]

The power of nature… an artist at sea… rough riders and a flash of Imperialism

By Patrick BurnsonPublished: January, 2006 After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire University of California Press $49.45 Coinciding with the centennial of San Francisco’s great earthquake and fire, comes a haunting tome almost too heavy for most coffee tables.Arizona-based photographer Mark Klett, who has been photographing the American West […]