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Cooley Landing to Support Endangered Species
EPA.net staff member goes on a search for the California Clapper Rail
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By Maria Chipres
EPA.net Staff Writer
The Baylands have long been home to the endangered California Clapper Rail. But now, our own Cooley Landing is proving to be a home for the bird as well. Baylands biologists have seen their nests out on the East Palo Alto side of San Francisquito Creek Near the Cooley Landing area. So I decided to take a journey to try to see this rare, shy bird.
It's amazing being at the Baylands. It's a big open space area of 1,940-acres, where you can observe many different kinds of birds and other interesting wild creatures. Bay marshes are covered with three major grasses that make up 99% of the vegetation of a salt marsh: cord grass, pickleweed; and salt grass. The preserve includes some of the salt marsh/mudflat habitats that provide a year-round home to the endangered California Clapper Rail.
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"A Reflection"
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A Blast From The Past: Revisiting the history of Cooley Landing
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Rural playground turns in shovels for textbooks
Any change we were able to rummage and it was a trip to the convenience store to buy candy. The choices would be: pink bubblegum, chocolate, and something sour just to compensate for the sweet tooth of a nine-year old. Lemondrops, tiny little yellow hard candies that made your lips pucker. With cavity treasures in tow, we'd run through the garage, race up the stairs and straight to the balcony to grab the perfect spot. Watching innocently as passerbys walked nonchalantly to the back of the house, an observant eye would barely notice the little heads peeking just over the ledge.
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Cooley Landing's appearance nowadays would fool you. You probably would never guess all the "who's, what's, where's, and why's" that it has seen. A lot of East Palo Alto's history originated from Cooley Landing.
In the beginning, Cooley Landing was known as Ravenswood Wharf. In the mid 1800s, an educated banker, Isaiah C. Woods, was employed as president for Adams & Company Banking and Express of San Francisco. Woods persuaded Adams & Co. to invest in what he thought would be a new "San Francisco."
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The Walk for Life
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Having a Serious Talk with Mother Nature
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East Palo Alto youth participates in abortion protest.
On January 23, 2010, the West Coast Walk for Life took place in San Francisco. The West Coast Walk for Life is held each year in which groups of people come together and protest against abortion and support Pro-Life. Starting at Market Street in San Francisco, the Walk for Life started at exactly 11:00 am with speakers like Lila Rose from Live Action and Irene Beltran from Silent No More.
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An East Palo Alto teen reflects on his connections to his culture and the natural world.
I have lived in East Palo Alto all my life. Coming from a family that has a strong Mexican cultural connection, I was able to experience my culture first hand by eating authentic Mexican food that makes your mouth water, having fiestas that do not end until the sun comes up, and being raised by old fashion Mexican parents that have strict rules.
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