Before it was a city, much of San Francisco was a dunescape. Nearly a third of it was covered in sand. Western winds swept the sand into heaps and piles—one 80-foot dune rested in the future Union ...

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Avroh Shah, Young Leader Mirella Ramos, Environmental Educator Susan Schwartz, Community Hero Annie Burke, Conservation ...

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If you’ve got time to spare on weekdays, how about going back to school? Outside, that is. Volunteer with LandPaths’ In Our Own Backyard program, which immerses elementary-school-age kids in Sonoma ...

I think it got something!” Avroh Shah says. Out at the Baylands Nature Preserve, the sweep of sky over these shimmering ...

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