Dogs on GGNRA Lands

May—June 2011

Editorial Dogs on GGNRA Lands People, their pets, Muir Beach (right) and the environment has traditionally been a popular spot hy have we devoted several pages for dogs to play Wof this Newsletter to a proposed in the sand and Dog Management Plan for Golden Gate surf. Effective dog National Recreation Area? We all care management will deeply about the environment—and require clear signage most of us also own pets. We are roughly and consistent divided between dog owners and cat enforcement. owners, with some outliers who own neither, and many who keep both in their households. Pets bring all kinds of enjoyment, keep us fit, and studies show they improve mental health, but even the

photos by Dru Parker most ardent environmentalists among us are not always willing to restrict their The Plan focuses on 21 most heavily- pets’ “natural” behaviors. visited sites within GGNRA. In brief, the Plan Marin County is fortunate in having recommends a “default rule” that dogs are more than half of the county under allowed in GGNRA only as expressly permitted federal, state, water district, and local at the 21 sites, and only under the limitations county ownership and management. established for each site. Seven of the sites These lands are our backyard, our are in Marin County. destination on a weekend of escape, Among national parks, GGNRA is unique our scenic backdrop. They are also the in its diversity of natural and cultural places where we love to walk with our resources and varieties of user facilities and in canine companions, and therein lies the Contributed by Delos Putz, Nona Dennis, and the proximity to a dense urban area and diverse problem: dogs are not always welcome, MCL Parks and Open Space Committee local communities and neighborhoods. Since especially off-leash. It is the essence of adoption of its 1979 Pet Policy, it is also “dogness” to run free in the surf, or give NPS Prepares a Draft unique among national parks in allowing chase to anything that moves. But Fido for both on-leash and off-leash and “voice- does not generally differentiate between Dog Management Plan control” dog-walking at specified locations. prey like the populous jack-rabbit—which As Bay Area population and overall use of Continued on Page 8 ost people who walk dogs in the GGNRA park sites have increased, so have the Golden Gate National Recreation number of individual and commercial dog Area (GGNRA) are aware that the walkers, associated waste, visitor conflicts, M In This Issue— National Park Service (NPS) has prepared a and disturbance to threatened, endangered, Dog Management Plan / Draft Environmental or other sensitive species that by law require President’s Message—Page 2 Impact Statement (Plan/DEIS) that outlines special protection. In view of controversy, Upcoming Events—Page 3 proposed rules for dog-walking on GGNRA litigation and compromised visitor and Status Updates—Page 4 lands. The Plan was made public amidst great employee safety, the NPS must update the controversy in March, and the period for 1979 policy. Annual Dinner Recap—Page 6 public comment has been extended to May McGlashan Remembered—Page 9 30. Continued on Page 9

PAGE 1 May—June 2011 A Message from the President—Changing of the guard at MCL t happens every green building, San Rafael neighborhoods, fun activities like “Walks into (Conservation) Ifew years. This and other issues, is taking a well-deserved History” that Nona Dennis instituted as year, at the “leave of absence” to catch up on deferred part of the 75th Anniversary of MCL. The Annual Meeting family travel. Rounding out the Officers of recent “Walk into History on Ring Mt.”, April on April 15, Nona MCL will be Bruce Fullerton as Secretary, 30, was the eighth in the series, which will Dennis handed and Ken Drexler continuing as Treasurer. continue on Saturday, August 27, in Cascade the gavel over After several years of running on an ad Canyon Open Space Preserve. On June 10, to me—and for hoc basis, the former “Water, Watersheds, and the next Business-Environment Breakfast the third time Wetlands Committee” will be resurrected and Forum, a 25-year MCL tradition, will afford I will serve as chaired by Priscilla Bull, an MCL veteran. If the opportunity to meet the two recently President of MCL. these issues are of interest to you please e-mail appointed Superintendents of Marin’s I welcome the us at [email protected]. The National Parks. Picnic on the Porch (July 30) opportunity to once again lead the mission committee’s role, name, and meeting time and the annual Holiday Party (Dec. 2) are on which the League embarked 77 years ago! are yet to be determined. The long-standing always good opportunities to schmooze with Several other transitions took place at the Land Use and Transportation Committee will other MCL members. Annual Meeting. Brett Powell, who joined continue, chaired by incoming Board member Keeping abreast of the many environmental the MCL Board several years ago, will serve Gail Wilhelm. Gail, while new to the Board, issues around the county is a big job! The MCL as the First Vice President. Nona Dennis is has long been active in land use planning and Board is a dedicated and hard-working board. not going far away: as Second Vice President MCL issues in Northern Marin and Novato. But the issue committees are where the policy she will oversee MCL Issues Committees, chair The Climate Action Committee, formed last and positions on issues are developed and the Parks and Open Space Committee, and year under the leadership of Board member where member participation is so important. continue to be an active participant in Land Michelle Passero, has attracted considerable Check out the meeting times on the back Use and Transportation, Water, and Climate attention from members and will address a page of this newsletter. I look forward to issues. Roger Roberts, departing Second suite of energy, waste, and related land use, seeing you at one sometime soon! Vice President who has so ably chaired Parks transportation and other climate-related and Open Space Committee and attended issues. countless meetings concerning land use, transportation, solid waste, water supply, We’ll be enjoying many of the interesting/

• Fishermen want adequate flows to Peter Gleick addresses MCL’s Annual sustain fish stocks; • Urban interests want reliable water Dinner: The “soft path for water” supply for cities; r. Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific One billion people across the globe have • Social justice interests see loss of equity, DInstitute and an internationally known no access to potable fresh water; and 2.5 or lack of access to water for subsistence; expert on water issues, spoke at the MCL billion people have no access to sanitation. • The scientific community want more Annual Dinner on April 15. He opened Moreover, California does not have an data to make rational decisions; his remarks with a positive observation: absolute constraint or scarcity of water. For as a nation, we are “moving in the right example, California can supply 2,500 cubic • Economists believe that appropriate direction” —in a sustainable direction. We no meters (m3 ), or about two-acre-feet, of pricing will solve the problem; longer do many of the “bad things” we did fresh water per person annually. Compare • Lawyers are concerned with water law, in previous years. The general public usually this to the global average of less than 500 water rights, policy and regulations; finally, supports the environment, even when bad m3 or Singapore’s 220 m3 per person. • Engineers think that technology will “fix” decisions are being made. We should take California’s water problems are due in part the water shortage. heart from our successes, but if successes to the difficulty of finding common ground The problem with water in California are to be sustained, we are “in it for the long among too many interests with differing is primarily one of distribution—water haul.” priorities: occurs in the “wrong” locations, and it is Turning to water in California, Gleick • Agricultural interests need water to least available in the season when it is affirmed that the state has reached its peak grow essential food; needed most. The state long ago invested limit for available fresh water. On a global in infrastructure to solve the distribution scale, however, California’s water crisis pales • Environmental interests fear loss of aquatic ecosystems and wetlands; in comparison to the “worst water crises.” Continued on Page 8

PAGE 2 May—June 2011 Upcoming Events

Business-Environment Breakfast, Friday, June 10, Embassy Suites May 18 Forum on The Job of Managing Marin’s National Parks Housing in Marin arin County hosts two remarkable Housing needs, constraints, and Embassy Suites in San Rafael, 101 McInnis opportunities in Marin will be the topic Mnational parks that, together, provide Parkway. more than 140,000 acres of diverse of a public forum on Wed., May 18, 7 habitats, cultural resources, and recreational Tickets are $25 for MCL members and p.m., at the Pickleweed Community opportunities, extending from the Marin $30 for non-members. A full breakfast Center, 50 Canal St., San Rafael. Headlands to the tip of Point Reyes Peninsula. buffet is included. Advance registration and Susan Adams, county supervisor, Pt. Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) was payment are required by June 3. Register at will be moderator. Panelists will be authorized in 1962, but it took the next ten marinconservationleague.org/events or Bob Brown, San Rafael Community years to assure that it would be fully funded. return the form below. Development Director; Nona Dennis, Ten years later in 1972, Golden Gate National Marin Conservation League Vice Recreation Area (GGNRA) was authorized by President; Ken Kirkey, Planning Congress and since that time has grown into Director, Association of Bay Area the largest U.S. national park unit in an urban GGNRA General Governments; Betty Pagett, Marin area. The two parks are visited every year by Superintendent County League of Women Voters; millions of people from around the world. Frank Dean and Dick Spotswood, columnist, It is easy for Marin residents, the closest Marin Independent Journal. beneficiaries of the parks, to take them for Forum sponsors are Marin granted as their own. It is also easy to reduce Conservation League, Marin County the management complexities of the parks to League of Women Voters, and Marin a few newsworthy issues. Last year, the top Environmental Housing Collaborative. management positions were assumed by two Questions and comments from the new superintendents, replacing others who audience will be encouraged. Issues had occupied those positions for many years. to be discussed will include state Cicely Muldoon took over as Superintendent requirements for housing elements, of PRNS, and Frank Dean became the General whether there should be changes in Superintendent of GGNRA. these requirements, environmental On Friday, June 10, Superintendents Cicely constraints, and how the new state Muldoon and Frank Dean will discuss the PRNS law SB 375 will affect local housing. job of managing Marin’s national parks at Superintendent Admission is free, but registration MCL’s Business-Environment Breakfast at the Cicely Muldoon is requested. Call 415-485-6257 or # visit marinconservationleague.org. REGISTRATION FORM Business—Environment Breakfast: Marin’s National Parks June 10, 2011 Name(s) Title/Org. Street Ticket price includes City State Zip full breakfast buffet. Phone Email Pre-registration required r MCL member $25 r Non-member $30 Total Due $ by June 3, 2011

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PAGE 3 May—June 2011 Status Updates Azalea Hill Trail, MMWD Watershed he Azalea Hill Trail begins at a parking Tarea on the Bolinas-Fairfax Road as a rutted former fire-road and ascends the shoulder of 1,217-foot Azalea Hill through serpentine grassland and shrub vegetation. It then descends steeply some 500 vertical feet down a rocky hillside and through a pristine

Oak-Madrone woodland to meet an arm of Doug Wilson Alpine Lake. Skirting the arm of water, the trail eventually crosses over to meet Bullfrog on the fire road portion before the trail there is no definite time table for pursuing Road, which links the Meadow Golf Club and narrows to a foot path. Currently, bikers’ only the project. route from MMWD’s Sky Oaks headquarters to Bon Tempe Lake. From the top of Azalea Hill As MMWD’s plan for a non-profit “Friends the Pine Mountain area is along the narrow, and along the way, the trail offers sweeping of the Mt. Tamalpais Watershed” goes forward winding Bolinas-Fairfax Road. The possibility vistas across the MMWD watershed toward and fund raising proceeds (see MCL News of reconstructing the trail to shared-use Mt. Tamalpais and beyond. January-February 2011), a project like the standards across the steep and sensitive Azalea Trail could advance, but not without MMWD has long wanted to realign the terrain above the reservoirs, however, raises a further study. trail to a more gradual gradient. As part of multitude of environmental issues. the project, the District would decommission informal side trails that have sprung up In recent months, several organizations The Martha Company over the years, fragmenting the serpentine have taken special interest in the proposed habitat, trampling the woodland, promoting new alignment, shown in blue on the GPS at Easton Point map above. On April 22, a group representing erosion and sedimentation into the reservoirs, We last wrote about the Martha Company’s Marin Conservation League, Tamalpais and presenting unsafe conditions for hikers. application to develop 43 estate-size homes Conservation Club, Marin County Bicycle The District has submitted applications for on a 110-acre Easton Pt. on Paradise Drive, Coalition, the Marin equestrian community, grants to fund the project, but they have Tiburon, in the Newsletter in November, 2009. Sierra Club, and the MMWD Board, were been unsuccessful. Still, it continues to be a Once again, the plan is before the public, this led by Mike Swezy, MMWD Watershed high priority for future planning purposes. time with some probability that it will come Manager, along the proposed new alignment, to fruition after 35 years. A large group The proposed realignment presents both bushwhacking cross-country. All agreed of well-informed Tiburon neighbors and opportunities and challenges—and possible that the proposed route could redirect users environmentalists, along with the applicants, controversy as well, in that mountain bikes away from the numerous informal trails, but gathered in County Planning Commission are not now permitted on the narrow trail, also would require thorough environmental chambers on Monday, April 25, to offer an although they can proceed a short distance analysis. In the absence of a source of funds, array of largely negative comments on the Hikers representing Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR). a variety of This is one of several EIRs that have been groups (left and prepared (but previously not completed) above) discuss the on a project whose legal history dates to proposed Azalea a 1976 stipulated judgment granting the trail alignment on descendants of the original Reed family a cross-country site property owners the right to construct visit April 22. at least 43 dwelling units. The County’s review process was further constrained by a subsequent court judgment that limited the scope of challenges to the DEIR to matters of health, safety and impacts on protected plant and animal species. For the most part, comments focused on issues such as safety hazards of construction

Continued on page 5 Doug Wilson

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Martha Co. from Page 4 One of them, the outcome of an agreement DEIR. These will go directly to the Board of between the applicant and the Town of Supervisors for certification of the EIR. The equipment and traffic on narrow access Tiburon, would limit the number of residences Planning Commission will have one more streets and Paradise Drive, the safety of a to 32 but allow the size of ten of the homes opportunity to shape the project at a merits “temporary” construction road rising at a to increase to 10,000 square feet. Other hearing, to be scheduled. 25% grade to be in place for at least 10 alternatives in the DEIR would reconfigure years, numerous land-slides requiring repair, some building sites either to reduce visual and noise and traffic disturbance that could impacts, or, alternatively, reduce impacts on SB 375 in Marin: the go on for decades as build-out of individual biological resources. In MCL’s view, neither of “Initial Vision Scenario” residences proceeds. Additional comments them would substantially reduce significant were made on the removal of more than impacts. The DEIR concludes that six project- On March 11, the Association of Bay Area 700 trees from an oak-bay woodland, many specific significant impacts cannot be Governments (ABAG) and Metropolitan of them protected by ordinance, loss of most mitigated to insignificant levels; they include Transportation Commission (MTC) made of a population of the protected Marin dwarf impacts on regional roads, construction noise, public a plan that fulfills one of the key steps flax, inpacts on the endangered California open space, and visual impacts from several in implementing SB 375, the “anti-sprawl bill” red-legged frog, and visibility on prominent viewpoints. Five significant cumulative passed in 2008. Dubbed the “Initial Vision ridges that are protected by county policy. A impacts are unavoidable: traffic on Highway Scenario,” this preliminary planning proposal number of comments concerned the excessive 101, loss and fragmentation of natural identifies areas where projected growth in size of the proposed homes (from 5,500 to habitat, construction noise, air quality and the San Francisco Bay Region’s population 8,750 square feet) on such a constrained site. greenhouse gas emissions, and visual impacts. might be housed over the next 25 years. (The A unique comment came from the Keil family, current Bay Region population of 7.2 million MCL has tracked this site for many years, owners of historic (1890s) rights to a spring, is projected to rise to over 9 million by 2035; and continues to believe that, given its high including the land and ground water that every county in the Bay Region, including visibility, numerous physical constraints, feeds it, in the middle of the Martha property. Marin, is expected to assume a share of that and rich biological resources, it should The water from the spring is used to irrigate growth.) The Vision Scenario also describes have minimum clustered development with a mature garden on the main Keil property how land use patterns could shift to make smaller residences on lower portions of the below Paradise Dr. that is registered with communities more compact, with housing site only, leaving the majority of the site as a the Garden Conservancy. Three mitigation near jobs, services, and other amenities, and continuation of the adjacent Old St. Hilary’s measures intended to protect the spring adjacent to transit, thereby reducing the and Tiburon Uplands Nature Preserves, both would require cooperation from the Keil need to travel over long distances by personal owned by the Marin County Open Space family, which, they stated, they are unwilling vehicle. District. to grant. As reported in the MCL March-April 2011 The next step in review will be the Several alternatives are explored in the DEIR. Newsletter, SB 375 seeks to limit the effects consultant’s response to comments on the of climate change by promoting compact communities close to transportation, Easton Point, above the town of Tiburon, thereby reducing reliance on personal autos as seen from the Angel Island Ferry and, consequently, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from that source. Compact development is one of three strategies intended to meet specific greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets that were set last year for personal autos and light trucks. The other two strategies outlined in SB 375 for reducing GHGs are improved fuel efficiency and reduced carbon fuels. Affordable housing is also an essential requirement of SB 375 and must be consistent with ABAG’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) housing allocations. Local jurisdictions are currently considering —in some cases debating—these allocations as they update their housing elements, as required by law. Because the local discussion

Tim Rosenfeld, 2009 Continued on Page 10

PAGE 5 May—June 2011 2011 Annual Dinner Annual Dinner focuses on water arin Conservation League’s 2011 During the evening, Susan Stompe California Regional Water Quality Control MAnnual Dinner, held on April 15 at was elected MCL President, and five new Board specialist Marla Lafer was honored the Key Room, the beautiful event space directors were named to the Board: Chris with the Marin Green Award; and the John at Homeward Bound’s New Beginnings Yalonis, Gail Wilhelm, Fred Holden, M. McPhail, Jr. Green Business Award went Center in Hamilton, sold out in advance Jon Elam and David Schnapf. to Mike and Sally Gale of the Chileno Valley Ranch. The Ted Wellman Water for the second year in a row. The event MCL’s 2011 Awards for Environmental Award was given to of featured an all-organic buffet catered Leadership were presented. California Cynthia Koehler the Environmental Defense Fund and Marin by Fresh Starts Catering, and Mendocino Native Plan Society Marin Chapter co- Municipal Water District, and the Marin County wines were generously provided founder Wilma Follette received the Peter Conservation League Volunteer of the Year by Graziano Family Vineyards. Behr Lifetime Achievement Award for Award was given with gratitude to Roger The evening was kicked off by a brief her thirty years of leading botany walks Roberts for his many years of service to statement from State Senator Mark into every corner of the county. State of the Marin environmental community. Leno and a tribute to late Supervisor Charles McGlashan by Nona Dennis, A Special Award for Environmental and closed by guest speaker Dr. Achievement was given to Supervisor Peter Gleick, who discussed Hal Brown, District 2, in thanks for peak water and California’s water and appreciation of his 28 years of issues. (See article on page 2.) dedicated service to Marin County.

Clockwise from top: Awardees Mike and Sally Gale; Supervisor Susan Adams; Awardee Wilma Follette; Supervisor Hal Brown and his dog Bo; Katie Rice, accepting the Special Award for Environmental Achievement on Brown’s behalf.

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2011 Annual Dinner from previous page

Major sponsors of the dinner were Bank of Marin and Marin Sanitary Service. Pianist Michael McIntosh returned again to set the mood for the evening. MCL is grateful to all the local businesses (see sidebar) who graciously donated to the raffle, and to Greg Zitney, whose stunning photographs were used for the awards. Raffle winners wereElizabeth Moody, Nancy Praetzel, Karin Hobbel, Arlin Weinberger, Brian Stompe, Michael Bull, Jon Elam and Brenda Belden-Brown. Congratulations!

THANK YOU, annual dinner raffle donors!

Bartlett Tree Experts Blue Water Kayaking Bob Spofford Body Kinetics City of Sausalito Comforts Gold's Gym Heath Ceramics Lark Theater Marin Soil Solutions Mill Valley Car Wash Mountain Play Pelican Inn Poggio Sausalito Foundation Slide Ranch Spinnaker Restaurant Top row: Marla Lafer; Roger Roberts and Tom Harrison Maps MCL President Susan Stompe; 2nd row: David Behar, Phyllis Faber, Peter Gleick; Upper Crust Pies Gordon Renaissen and Damon Connolly; Vicki Nichols 3rd row: Stephanie Moulton-Peters and Cynthia Koehler; Wanden Treanor and Weldon Owen Publishing Judge Faye D’Opal; 4th row: Dru Parker West Point Inn and Laura Schifrin; Jacob and Gabriel Renaissen; Left: Michael McIntosh

PAGE 7 May—June 2011 a significant impact. In an earlier housing Pets from Page 1 development near the tidal marshlands will quickly out-run it—or an endangered of Las Gallinas Creek, which are inhabited species, like a snowy plover. On a more subtle by endangered California Clapper Rail, level, dogs leave a scent that can linger for conditions were placed on deeds prohibiting long periods of time and disrupt or alter the ownership of outdoor cats. behavior of native animals. Not a good thing We raise these issues not because they are for the natural environment! in any sense “new,” but to explain why we To compound the problem, each of Marin’s have devoted several pages to a proposed public lands has its own rules, and the dog management plan that has prompted boundaries separating one public ownership a tremendous outcry. MCL does not have from another are not always clear. For an adopted position on either dogs or cats example, to reach Old Stage Road on MMWD (although we probably should have!). We lands, where dogs on leash are permitted, write this simply to remind our readers, the one must traverse Mt. Tamalpais State majority of whom (we estimate) own and Park (Bootjack Camp) where dogs are not cherish pets, that domesticated animals are permitted even on leash. Pt. Reyes National not part of the natural environment, and their instinctive behaviors can be damaging Seashore designates limited areas where dogs Commons/JustUs3 ©Flickr Creative on leash are allowed. Marin County Open to the nature that we love and work so hard Space District Preserves permits dogs on most to protect. fire-roads under voice control, but on leash • Protect the quality of water and prevent (limited to six feet in length) on trails. MMWD Peter Gleick from Page 2 allows dogs on-leash, but never in reservoir contamination of existing supplies; waters. In all cases where leashes are required, problem. Gleick suggested that building • Don’t use clean, drinking water to water however, agencies say that compliance is at new infrastructure, however, is an old way lawns and flush toilets; of thinking. Rather, we should be willing to Each of Marin’s public lands has pay for treating water we currently waste. • Reexamine management of water— its own rules, and the boundaries address growth, land use planning and If our vision is to have a long-term water together, move toward integrated are not always clear. reliable and sustainable water supply, then systems, employ better monitoring of Californians need to plan how to get there. ground water, and best 50 per cent. (MMWD rangers refer to Dr. Gleick laid out the elements of a “soft the “watershed bow,” when the dog-walker path” toward that vision: • Rethink old concepts of “demand”: in stoops to re-leash a dog as a ranger comes whatever activity water is required, do • Rethink water supply in wide-ranging into view). more with less. terms—conjunctive use of surface and And what about cats? The essence of groundwater, rainwater harvesting, treated Dr. Gleick concluded, again on a positive “catness” is to stalk and catch things that wastewater, new technologies such as note: we are using less total water now move: birds are especially fascinating prey. desalination if absolutely necessary and than 25 years ago—despite economic While we applaud cats for laying siege to a where environmentally feasible; and population growth. We are moving mole in the garden, we regret the snagging of in the right direction, but it will take • Price water as an economic good—we a Bewick’s wren. In both cases they are simply time (and effort) to achieve the vision. don’t pay enough for water; doing what comes naturally. Climate change must be integrated into every plan, not simply to A recent Draft Environmental Impact reduce greenhouse gas Report (Easton Point, Martha Company emissions, but also to adapt development on Tiburon Peninsula) contains to unpredictable shifts in a mini-essay on the environmental impacts the climate cycle that may of domestic and feral cats. The DEIR says affect the availability of that cats “can have a significant effect on water when and where it is the populations of local songbirds, lizards, needed. California is moving and small mammals.” It estimates that some toward a sustainable water occupants of the 43-proposed homes are future, but we need to make likely to own cats and that an estimated “16 it happen faster! or 17 of these cats are likely to spend time outdoors . . . where they will prey on relatively The water cycle. ©U.S. common small mammal and bird species.” Climate Change Service The DEIR then concludes that this is not Program

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park resources and safety of visitors and staff Beach, Rodeo Beach, Marin Headlands and from Page 1 GGNRA alike. Fort Baker. For each site, the Plan presents a The goal of the Plan is to replace the range of Alternatives A through E. nationwide federal regulation (which does Alternatives at GGNRA’s Marin Alternative A is “no action”; i.e., no change not allow off-leash dog-walking in the County Sites in present practices, which allow dogs on national park system) with a GGNRA-specific The seven Marin sites covered by the Plan many roads, trails and beaches either on- rule. This would better address local concerns include: Stinson Beach, Homestead Valley leash or under voice control. and formally legalize off-leash recreation (west of Mill Valley), Oakwood Valley/Alta Alternative B is to follow NPS national where it is consistent with protection of other Trail (in and south of Tennessee Valley), Muir regulations, which require dogs on-leash on sidewalks and paved areas and some dirt roads, trails and beaches; no dogs are allowed “off-leash.” Charles McGlashan Remembered Alternative C is “multiple use”; i.e., an Out-going MCL President Nona Dennis opened the April 15 MCL 2011 Annual Dinner effort is made to balance no-dogs and on- in memory of Charles McGlashan, the County’s youngest supervisor and past Vice leash-only areas, with “under voice control in President of MCL’s Board, who passed away suddenly on March 27 at age 49. regulated off-leash areas (ROLAs). I met Charles a dozen years ago before his interest in politics was evident. He Alternative D is most protective of the was consulting with corporations, applying sustainability models like “The Natural resources and safety, allowing dogs only on- Step” to redirect them into environmentally responsible ways of conducting leash and then only on sidewalks, paved roads business. I suspect he needed a greater challenge, and the urgency of a world and some beaches. threatened by shrinking glaciers and diminishing resources led him into public Alternative E is most generous to dog service and politics. walkers, allowing more on-leash areas and He joined the MCL Board in 2000 and served as a Vice President until 2003. His ROLAs but more constraints than Alternative business background was useful to a nonprofit like MCL. He also brought current A, which is present practice; this alternative experience and knowledge of issues surrounding waste, energy, greenhouse gas would require the most intense management. emissions, and climate change. In a way, he helped bring MCL’s agenda into the The DEIS identifies Alternative D as the 21st century. He also promoted MCL’s traditional agenda of protecting open space environmentally preferred alternative for all and natural resources—habitats, wetlands, and watersheds—and advocating for the sites in Marin, but identifies Alternative environmentally sound land use and transportation. C as the NPS preferred alternative for all His first move into elected politics was the Marin Municipal Water District sites in Marin, except for Muir Beach, where Board, but when the 3rd District Supervisorial position opened up soon thereafter, Alternative D is the NPS preferred alternative. Charles seemed like a natural to make the run. I supported him personally but was skeptical—how could this novice fill Annette Rose’s seasoned political shoes, or Effect of the Plan in Marin like Al Arambaru with his guitar, be a man for all people, or emulate Denny Rice’s lawyerly manner—his predecessors from District 3? With the exception of Alternative A (present practice, or “no action”), all alternatives Well, Charles learned—and learned—and grew as he learned: not only how to increase restrictions on dog walking in Marin. be politically effective, but how to put his own stamp on his initiatives and causes. “Dogs would be allowed only in designated And he was inquisitive, intelligent, and by nature gregarious. He really came to on-leash areas or ROLAs; all other areas of know his district! the park would be closed to dogs.” (Plan at p. MCL didn’t always agree with his initiatives, like SMART, whose financial viability 62.) The increased restrictions are intended to MCL challenged. But in retrospect, MCL’s areas of agreement with Charles far reduce conflicts, enhance safety of users and outweigh the differences. In Board of Supervisors’ decisions, Charles consistently dogs, and minimize the negative impacts of championed the environment: the Countywide Plan update is guided by principles dogs on the environment. of sustainability and it contains the long-sought Baylands Corridor; under his The Plan’s Preferred Alternative leadership, Community Choice Aggregation succeeded against all odds; plastic (Alternative C) designates only two off-leash bags were banned from grocery stores, and so on. If anyone truly lived the adage areas in Marin: Oakwood Valley Fire Road in “think globally, act locally” it was Charles McGlashan! Tennessee Valley, and the northern portion While Charles’ achievements can be listed, the loss to his wife Carol, his family, of Rodeo Beach. In all other areas, dogs must colleagues, associates, many, many friends, cannot be measured. He left behind be on-leash, and then only on roads, parking an indelible presence in the Marin County political and community landscape. He areas and trails that are expressly designated also left behind decades of unfinished future work in public and environmental for dog walking. When in a ROLA, the dog service that would have been his destiny had he lived. We are the richer for the must be within sight of its handler and under years he was able to serve. —Nona Dennis Continued on Page 11

PAGE 9 May—June 2011 Initial Vision Scenario from Page 5 of the Initial Vision Scenario and how it might influence the distribution of affordable housing is just getting started, it is too early to describe exactly how these two processes will work together. This will be the subject of a separate article in a subsequent Newsletter. The Initial Vision Scenario is now being reviewed by local jurisdictions around the Bay Region. Its main purpose is to articulate how the region as a whole—and the jurisdictions Dru Parker within it—might potentially grow over the The Initial Vision Scenario identifies San Quentin as a “growth opportunity next quarter century in a “sustainable” area” for almost 1,600 future households. manner. As a first-cut view of the future, the Vision Scenario is unconstrained—that is, Another strategy of the Initial Vision concept has had essentially no public review. it assumes that the economy will be strong, Scenario is to protect existing agriculture and that substantial public investments will have • Does Marin’s complex geography and open space lands in the bay region. That is been made in transportation and high quality topography allow compact growth and Marin! Therefore, it is not surprising that the transit, in other public infrastructure, and in walkability on a scale needed to meet its forecast for growth in Marin is the lowest in affordable housing, redevelopment, schools, forecasted growth? the Bay Region, with the exception of Napa and so on. It is indeed “visionary”! In the County, which is lower in household growth • Can measurable and timely GHG emission next year, with local feedback and ongoing by a half-percent. Comparative tables show reduction goals be accomplished through discussion, these optimistic assumptions will growth in Marin households (10%) and slow-moving shifts in land use patterns? be examined more closely and alternative jobs (16%) over the next 25 years. Marin’s Detailed Scenarios will be devised and tested • Will densification of existing urban areas household growth by the year 2035 is shown for their feasibility and their ability to meet compromise “community character”? as 10,700 additional households (if average the GHG reduction targets. • Can land use changes and transportation household size is 2.34, total population alone contain sprawl in Marin? Publication of the Initial Vision Scenario increase would be 25,038). This growth is is a first step in the process of developing a distributed among the Marin communities • Will transit be sufficiently funded to Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) and in a somewhat surprising manner, the largest support the basic premise of compact (TOD) will trigger local public workshops continuing growth being shown in San Rafael and Corte development? into July. At this writing, one such public Madera (21.8% and 19.6% respectively), with • Finally, what are the environmental limits, workshop is scheduled in Marin on May 11 Tiburon and the unincorporated County at such as projected sea level rise and limited (see box). The workshops kick off a two- roughly 10%. The Initial Vision Scenario also water supply, to where and how much year conversation among local jurisdictions identifies a “growth opportunity” area to development can be located? and regional agencies and presumably the accommodate about 1,600 households in a public, on what ultimately will become the “San Quentin Transit Village,” a concept that forecasted SCS in April 2013. has had virtually no public dialogue in Marin One Bay Area County. Public Workshop in Marin What Does the Initial Vision Wednesday, May 11, 2011, Scenario Hold for Marin? Is it Just Another Regional 5:30-8:30 p.m. Plan? As the County and towns and cities of Embassy Suites Hotel Marin review the Initial Vision Scenario, they In the coming months, as the discussion 101 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael are naturally interested in how it might affect about the Initial Vision Scenario and its Help One Bay Area build on the Bay them. One of the main strategies of the Initial implications proceeds, MCL will find some of Area’s legacy of leadership at this Vision Scenario is to concentrate the greatest the proposed strategies easy to accept; others Plan Bay Area public workshop, growth in locations best served by the will be more difficult. In either case, MCL will using the Initial Vision Scenario as a region’s transit network. As a consequence, seek answers to the following questions and conversation starter. Participants will three counties will take the lion’s share of the others as they arise: Bay Region’s growth: Santa Clara, Alameda use computer modeling and • What is the logic behind the growth and Contra Costa, absorbing over two-thirds other tools to help envision what forecasts for individual communities in of the total. Marin is not organized around various land-use/transportation Marin, and where did the San Quentin the region’s transit network. scenarios may look like. 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are as follows: the environmentally preferred and NPS GGNRA from Page 9 1. In general, the Preferred Alternatives, as preferred alternative, seems particularly effective “voice control.” If the rules are defined above, for the seven sites in Marin appropriate, especially in view of recent followed and dogs are kept on-leash in other represent an appropriate compromise fish habitat restoration at the mouth of areas so-designated, safety problems and between protection of the environment Redwood Creek. The NPS can expect strong environmental damage will be minimized. The and an attempt to accommodate dog pressure from the Muir Beach dog-owner Plan’s more restrictive Preferred Alternative walkers—at least as an experiment. If community, however, for an unfenced (D) for Muir Beach reflects the need to protect the proposed limitations on dog walking ROLA on a portion of the beach, as is the recently restored Redwood Creek, habitat are observed by users and adequately proposed in Alternative E. of the Threatened steelhead population. enforced by GGNRA, they could reduce 3. The ROLA proposed for the Oakwood To enforce these new rules the Plan proposes user conflicts, enhance safety of users Valley Fire Road will be fenced along to rely on a Compliance-Based Management and dogs, and protect the environment, the sides, as well as gated at both ends. Strategy. In essence, when noncompliance provided enforcement measures are Although hikers would continue to use the is observed, park staff would focus on sufficiently effective. However, adoption fire road (sharing it with off-leash dogs), enforcing the regulations, educating dog of these alternatives should be conditioned the fence might tempt mountain bikers to walkers, establishing buffer zones, and time on establishment of a “sunset” date no use the adjacent Oakwood Trail, which is and use restrictions for Special Use Permits later than five years from adoption, for narrow and off-limits to bikes. Resolution (SUP) for up to six dogs. If compliance falls review of the Plan’s effectiveness based on of this potential problem will require more below 75% in a management zone (measured systematic monitoring of user compliance study. as the percentage of total dogs/dog walkers (See Comments 4 and 5). 4. The proposed Compliance-Based observed during the previous 12 months not 2. AlternativeExploring D for Muirthe Beach,Parks which at theis Golden Gate

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Popular with hikers, cyclists, and horseback rid- FORT BARRY a Rodeo Lagoon Headlands Center for the Arts d Passenger ferry to Alcatraz ers, this well-maintained 1.7-mile trail meanders al ast departs from Pier 41 Co Hostel stal Hawk Vista Point through hills and past a quiet lagoon to a remote Coa Hill for measuring compliance has yet to be Nike Missile Site d C ad o l on R e z n Kirby i elma black-sand beach. At low tide you can see the F Cove Begin one-way Lime Point remains of the SS Tennessee, wrecked in 1853. Primi- traffic Kirby Cove Battery

Spencer Golden Gate Bridge tive campsite (reservations required). 415-331-1540. Bicentennial ALCATRAZ developed. Bird Island Bonita Cove Muir Woods National Monument E Horse rentals at the Miwok Livery, 415-383-8048. Bird Island Overlook Mendell T Marin Headlands Point Diablo A Stinson Beach Stop first at the visitor center for an overview of MARIN HEADLANDS G This three-mile sandy beach offers facilities and this area’s wildlife and human history. From Rodeo services for many kinds of water recreation. N SAN FRANCISCO Beach or Hawk Hill, watch for some of the 300 Point Bonita 415-868-0942. Point Bonita Lighthouse E BAY MCL Committee species of migratory and resident birds. Explore D historic military structures, including a Cold War- L Mount Tamalpais O Marin County’s highest mountain has dozens of era Nike missile site. Hike out to the Point Bonita Fort Point San Francisco Maritime G National Historic Site trails that take you through redwood forests, grass- Lighthouse, where bay meets ocean (limited hours). National Historical Park Battery East Hyde Park Partners such as the Marine Mammal Center, Warming Hut Crissy Field Street Recommendations on Plan lands, and wildflower meadows in spring. Visitor Pier L FORT MASON o Center the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Marin Toll Plaza n Fishermans Center, hiking trails, picnic areas, campground. Overlook g Aquatic Wharf CRISSY FIELD MARINA GREEN Fort Park Headlands Hostel are open to the public. Visitor G Mason Lodging and food service are offered seasonally. D ol Hostel o den Gate Promenade Center center, trails, camping. 415-331-1540. Overlook y Cable car For information call Mount Tamalpais State Park, le Mason turnaround D Marina Boulevard Great Maritime ri Museum 415-388-2070. ve L Meadow i Fort Baker n Exploratorium FORT c Richardson Bay Street o Information The Battery Cavallo earthworks, along with ffortifi-ortifi- WINFIELD l The Plan and DEIS have been closely n Halleck Muir Woods National Monument Park Headquarters SCOTT Hyde Street

cations at Fort Point, Alcatraz, and Fort Mason,son, d Van Ness Street PARADE “This is the best tree-lovers monument that could l r GROUND a a t SAN FRANCISCO MAIN date from the Civil War. Sheltered from windd s v Lombard Street possibly be found in all the forests of the world,” a e NATIONAL POST l Above: National Park Service map showingo u and often fog-free, this is an excellent place C MILITARY o l reviewed by MCL’s Parks and Open Space wrote John Muir of this old-growth stand of coastal Battery Chamberlin o Rob CEMETERY l B e to view the Golden Gate bridge, bay, and Hill u P n g r redwoods. Visitor center, paved and level walking l BAKER Ar e o PRESIDIO sid paths, hiking trails, food service. No picnicking. city skyline. Fishing piers, picnic area, andd c io BEACH n Mile Rock i William Penn boat launch. 415-331-1540. The Bay Areaea plan sites in Marin (darkest shade of green).L committee and its recommended comments Entrance fee. Expect large crowds and very limited CHINA Mott, Jr. Discovery Museum (415-339-3900) oﬀersrs 1 PRESIDIO Visitor Center 101 parking. 415-388-2595; www.nps.gov/muwo. LANDS END BEACH GOLF COURSE hands-on activities for all ages. Lands End USS San Francisco Eagles Point Mountain Lake Muir Beach Overlook Left: a Muir Beach dogMemorial walkerOverlook is told by a r ino Del Ma on the Plan will be considered by the full am This site of a former U.S. Army coastal observa- stal C SAN FRANCISCO a l Ave 25th

E Boulevard Presidio Park Co LINCOLN MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK tion post (base end station) has spectacular coastal Merrie Way Palace PARK of the views. Watch migrating whales in winter. Picnic ranger to put her dog on a Legionleash. Red crab Point Lobos of Honor 34th Board at its May 17 meeting. This will allow area. 415-388-2595. Ave NPS/Dan Ng Sutro Baths West Fort Miley ruins Geary Boulevard Seal Rocks Point Lobos Avenue Cliff House Gardens time for MCL to submit comments before the South of the Golden Gate Sutro Heights Park In the Bay

Fort Mason Baker Beach deadline. The Committee’s recommendations Dating back to the Civil War, this former U.S. Army This beach is popular for ﬁshing and shore rec- Fulton Street post is now a national historic landmark housing reation. Battery Chamberlin, built in 1904, has an GreatHighway Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s headquar- operational “disappearing” gun; check the park GOLDEN GATE PARK ters, an NPS regional information center, and the schedules for demonstration times. Picnic area with (city and county of San Francisco) Golden Gate National Parks Association. At water grills, drinking water, restrooms. Dangerous swim-

The Esplanade level is Fort Mason Center (415-441-5706), with gal- ming conditions; no lifeguards. 415-561-4323. Lincoln Way leries, performing arts spaces, exhibit areas, shops, restaurants, and nonproﬁt organizations. The Great China Beach Meadow has a statue of U.S. Rep. Philip Burton, who In the late 19th century Chinese ﬁshermen anchored PAGE 11 was instrumental in creating the park. 415-561-4700; their boats in this wind-protected cove and camped www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/. on the shore. Picnic area with grills.Dangerous swim-

ming conditions; no lifeguards. 415-561-4323 Conner NPS/Nancy Crissy Field Alcatraz Island The Crissy Field shoreline once consisted of dunes, Lands End This area is justifiably famous for its ocean views. lagoons, and tidal marshes. Today this area show- Avenue 19th Alcatraz cases the park’s habitat restoration efforts, includ- Look for shipwrecks at low tide. Eagles Point OCEAN Fort Alcatraz, a Civil War-era artillery post, was con- ing a 22-acre tidal marsh. At Crissy Field you can overlook has good views of the entrance to the BEACH verted to a military prison in 1907. In 1934 it became learn about aviation history, walk paths through Golden Gate. The USS San Francisco Memorial a federal maximum-security penitentiary, inspiring coastal habitats, and enjoy waterfront recreation. honors those who fought in the World War II Battle films and folklore that have continued long after the Food is available at Crissy Field Center and at the of Guadalcanal. Nearby West Fort Miley has his- prison closed in 1963. Eighty-nine American Indian Warming Hut. 415-561-4323. toric gun emplacements as well as a picnic area. protesters occupied the island in 1969-71, claiming it 415-561-4323. as Indian land. Bookstore, exhibits, audio tour, guided Fort Point National Historic Site 1 tours. Access by tour boat only. Reservations required; The only Civil War-era casemated fort on the West Cliff House book well in advance by phone, 415-981-ROCK (7625), Coast, Fort Point never saw combat. Because of its This has been a tourist destination since the first Cliff NPS/Will Elder or at www.alcatrazcruises.com. excellent design and superb masonry construction, House was built in 1863. Today’s Cliff House, built in Baker Beach enclosed within the San Francisco cityscape, is a place of refuge, reflection, and recreation. it was spared demolition during the building of the 1909, is the third to occupy the site. The Victorian-era Angel Island SAN Sloat Boulevard This 740-acre gem is a California State Park. In 1775 resort complex includes nearby Sutro Baths and the 35 Golden Gate Bridge. Exhibits, bookstore, tours. GreatHighway FRANCISCO Juan Manuel de Ayala, the earliest European explorer restored Sutro Garden. 415-561-4323. rd 415-556-1693; www.nps.gov/fopo. ZOO a v of San Francisco, visited it. Beginning in the mid-1800s, le Ocean Beach u o the U.S. Army built fortifications on Angel Island. The Presidio ThisT wild, windy beach stretches four miles from B e n The Angel Island Immigration Station was the point i San Francisco’s famous Presidio has witnessed Cliff House to Fort Funston. Cold water and rip C l o y of entry for thousands of Asian and European immi- a k s S LAKE more than 200 years of military history, beginning t currents make swimming here extremely dangerous! a l grants. Ferry service from San Francisco and Tiburon. with the arrival of the first Spanish garrison in 1776 MMany people have drowned. The Esplanade provides 415-435-5390. and ending when the U.S. Army transferred the ffor an enjoyable walk along the shore. Watch for the HARDING land to the National Park Service in 1994. A detailed snowy plover, an endangered bird that the park is PARK map, available at the visitor center, will guide you wworking hard to protect. 415-561-4323. MERCED through the Presidio’s historic and natural areas. To reach Fort Funston from the south, make a 415-561-4323; www.nps.gov/prsf. Fort Funston u-turn here and go south Battery Davis Continuous strong winds make these coastal head- to entrance. Norte 0 0.5 1 Kilometro J lands ideal for hang-gliding. Trails take you along FORT ohn 0 0.5 1 Milla 35 M FUNSTON u tthe bluffs and down to the beach. Wildflowers ir Right: An early postcard describes D abound in spring. Explore the World War II-era ri Alcatraz as “one of the Govern- Observation Deck ve Trail Coastal defense Battery Davis. Visit the nursery where native plants battery ment’s Great Federal Prisons.” Far Native Plant Ask a ranger for detailed trail

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All photographs are National Park Service images. Non-Profit Marin Conservation League Organization Board of Directors U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 151 Officers San Rafael, CA Susan Stompe, Novato, President Brett Powell, Mill Valley, May—June 2011 First Vice President 1623—A Fifth Ave. Nona Dennis, Mill Valley Second Vice President San Rafael, CA 94901 Bruce Fullerton, Mill Valley, Secretary RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Kenneth Drexler, Fairfax, Treasurer Directors Betsy Bikle, Mill Valley Priscilla Bull, Kentfield Jon Elam, San Anselmo Jana Haehl, Corte Madera Fred Holden, Belvedere Amy Marr, Mill Valley Vicki Nichols, Sausalito Michelle Passero, Mill Valley David Schnapf, Greenbrae Larry Smith, Nicasio Daniel Sonnet, San Rafael Bob Spofford, San Rafael Ann Thomas, Corte Madera Gail Wilhelm, Novato Periann Wood, Mill Valley Chris Yalonis, Fairfax

Board of Directors meetings are held the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm and are open to the public. people about what is expected of them.” from Page 11 GGNRA Clear and prominent signage is most Staff: important. Signs that are damaged need Dru Parker, Operations Manager Management Strategy will be based to be replaced quickly and persons caught Laura Schifrin, Operations Administrator primarily on monitoring and recording vandalizing signs should be prosecuted the behavior of users by observation, but Contact Information vigorously. 1623-A Fifth Avenue a detailed monitoring plan has yet to be San Rafael CA 94901 written. The Draft Plan establishes 75% as 415.485.6257 tel an acceptable level of compliance. However, Add Your Comments 415.485.6259 fax the management response (i.e., changing Your comments are valuable! For further [email protected] ROLAs to on-leash areas, and “on-leash” information, visit the NPS web site http:// marinconservationleague.org to “no dogs”) would not be implemented www.nps.gov/goga/deis.htm. Maps showing how and where each of the Alternatives Monthly Committee Meeting unless the compliance rate dropped to Schedule (subject to change): 25%. Given the size of GGNRA, the limited applies at each site in Marin are particularly Land Use and Transportation: number of personnel, and this amorphous useful. Online comments can be submitted 1st Wed. of the month, 8:00 - 10:00 am measure of compliance, it will be difficult by May 30 at http://parkplanning.nps. Parks & Open Space: to develop an adequate monitoring plan. gov/dogplan, and by mail, post-marked no 2nd Thurs. of the month, 3:00 - 5:00 pm Implementing the monitoring plan in a way later than May 28 to: Frank Dean, General North Marin Unit (NMU): that produces reliable results and is legally Superintendent, Golden Gate National Call 415.485.6257 or see our website defensible will be even more difficult. Recreation Area, Fort Mason, Bldg. 201, San for meeting details. Francisco 94123. Meetings (except for NMU) are at 5. The Compliance-Based Management 1623-A Fifth Avenue, San Rafael Strategy needs to be supplemented, from Delos Putz is a retired attorney and a the beginning, by vigorous enforcement member of MCL Parks and Open Space Marin Conservation League was founded in 1934 to preserve, protect and enhance Marin efforts that include (a) a visible increase in Committee and Marin Horse Council. Nona County’s natural assets. uniformed law enforcement presence; (b) Dennis is Vice President of MCL. MCL is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. increased issuance of citations, particularly All contributions and memberships are tax- to aggressive violators; and (c) tracking of deductible to the extent allowed by law. repeat offenders. We agree with the Marin Printed by Mill Valley Services on recycled paper with soy-based inks. Please share & recycle. Audubon Society that “the enforcement of regulations sends the clearest message to

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