POST Reaches New Heights!

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POST Reaches New Heights! Peninsula Open Space Trust Saving the Dear Friends, We did it! Together, POST donors rose to the challenge Campaign of an awesome and ambitious $200 million Saving the Endangered Coast fund-raising campaign to save the San Mateo Coast—and triumphed! This is an extraordinary achievement—a bold, visionary statement on behalf of our California coastal landscape. At POST, we measure Our community rallied around something of value, and we success in many ways. Taking our worked together to save it. On behalf of POST’s Board and lead from our mission statement, staff, thanks to all of you who went above and beyond your we strive to “give permanent annual commitments to POST to put us over the top in this protection to the beauty, character historic initiative. Thanks also to the new friends who joined and diversity of the San Francisco us to complete this campaign. You recognized that there is Peninsula for people here now no other place in the world like the San Mateo Coast and that it deserves to be protected forever. and for future generations.” Your support has now set the stage for POST to complete To that end, we are thrilled to the other significant goal of this campaign — saving 20,000 announce that POST’s Saving the acres of coastal open space. To date, we have saved 14,532 Endangered Coast campaign has acres. Only when this phase of the campaign is complete can reached its $200 million goal! It is we look back and say we did what we set out to do. by all accounts the most successful As we work to complete the 20,000-acre goal, this issue fund-raising campaign on behalf of Landscapes will celebrate POST’s success in providing of local land conservation and permanent protection to the beauty, character and diversity will result in thousands of acres of the San Francisco Peninsula landscape for people here of pristine beaches, hiking trails, now and for future generations. majestic redwoods, fertile farmland, and breathtaking vistas preserved for generations to come. Sincerely, This record-breaking achievement is the result of four and a Susan Ford Dorsey half years of commitment and Chair, POST Board of Directors generosity from POST’s donors, some of whom have been with us since our founding in 1977 and some of whom have just joined us. More than 10,000 donors have made gifts and pledges during The mission of the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) this campaign to save 20,000 acres is to give permanent protection to the beauty, character and of threatened coastal lands along diversity of the San Francisco Peninsula landscape for people here the San Mateo Coast. now and for future generations. POST encourages the use of these lands for natural resource protection, wildlife habitat, low-intensity “All of us at POST are pro- public recreation and agriculture. foundly grateful to everyone who

came forward so generously to Saving the Endangered Coast. © Brian O’Neill © 2001 Brian O’Neill help us attain this ambitious The Kresge Foundation’s goal,” said POST President $1.75 million challenge grant Audrey Rust. “There are no words motivated POST donors to bring to express how elated I am at this the campaign to a strong finish. remarkable achievement. Thank “This campaign to save the you to everyone who contributed!” coast is so important. Those who

Over the course of the follow us will look back and © Brian O’Neill campaign, many individuals, say how smart it was to save this © 2000 Robert Buelteman © 2000 Robert including members of POST’s landscape and make sure it Board of Directors, Coastal remains protected forever,” said Campaign Advisory Council and Campaign Chair Karie Thomson. Skyline Society Committee, stepped “POST’s success just goes to show up with major gifts to the campaign. that amazing things are possible Many of these donors made when individuals band together repeat gifts to put us over the top. behind a common cause. This Foundations also played a is a phenomenal legacy we are Buelteman © 2004 Robert Buelteman © 2002 Robert pivotal role in this success. At the leaving for the future. As POST outset of the campaign, both the continues to work to complete its Gordon and Betty Moore 20,000-acre land-saving goal, Foundation and the David and everyone who contributed to the Lucile Packard Foundation made campaign can be proud of this grants of $50 million each to accomplishment.” ■ © 2003 Robert Buelteman © 2003 Robert Buelteman © 2003 Robert

“Those who follow us will look back and say how smart it was to save this landscape and make sure it remains © 2004 David Hibbard protected forever.” © 2004 Mark Hatasaka Karie Thomson Campaign Chair A Long-Awaited Victory: POST’s Rancho Corral de Tierra Included in GGNRA Boundary

After five years of collaborative of Rancho Corral, one of the Beach. Jutting out of the northern effort by POST and its public largest undeveloped parcels of the end of the Santa Cruz Mountains, partners, the Golden Gate National San Mateo County coast, along it features maritime chaparral Recreation Area (GGNRA) with approximately 800 acres of habitat that is rare on the San boundary has been expanded and state property near Devil’s Slide. Francisco Peninsula. Its most POST is one big step closer to These lands will join Alcatraz, prominent feature, the nearly ensuring that the majority of the Marin Headlands, Muir 2,000-foot high Montara Mountain, Rancho Corral de Tierra will Woods and the Presidio within commands the coastal landscape be transferred to permanent the GGNRA, the world’s largest along much of Highway 1. protection. urban park. “The GGNRA and Rancho President George W. Bush Corral de Tierra are a treasure signed bill S. 136 into law on A Local Landmark of trove of recreational opportuni- December 20, 2005, to include the National Significance ties, unique habitat, diverse POST property within the GGNRA. Rugged and massive Rancho wildlife and tremendous views,” The long-awaited legislation Corral is located only seven miles said POST President Audrey Rust. extends the southern boundary of south of San Francisco, near the “We are grateful for the efforts of the park to incorporate 4,076 acres towns of Montara and Moss Senator Dianne Feinstein (D- California), Congressman Tom Lantos (D-San Mateo), Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto), and the entire Bay

Historic Wilderness Rancho Corral de Tierra boasts panoramic views and the headwaters for four major water- sheds. It also supports dense forests of redwood and Douglas fir and distinctive coastal scrub and coastal chaparral habitats. Numerous federally listed rare and endangered plant and San Francisco Watershed

that this amazing coastal land is worthy of national park status. This will be an important addition © 2006 Peninsula Open Space Trust to our San Mateo coastal lands and will help round out our boundary, which now includes Rancho Corral de Tierra San Francisco Watershed lands, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve and Pedro Point Headlands—all of which are in the vicinity of Rancho Corral de Tierra.” said Pillar Point Brian O’Neill, Superintendent of Bluff Wicklow the GGNRA. “Audrey and her staff worked very hard in the mid- 1990s to preserve the Phleger Fitzgerald Marine Preserve Estate, which is now part of the GGNRA, and we look forward to continuing our relationship with

POST Owned Agricultural Lands excluded them as we discuss future manage- from GGNRA boundary Other Protected Land ment of Rancho Corral de Tierra.” POST will collaborate with animal species flourish on POST’s private donors, the its partners to ask Congress to Rancho Corral’s steep slopes. The California Coastal Conservancy appropriate $15 million in Land federally endangered Hickman’s and the Wildlife Conservation and Water Conservation Funds cinquefoil, a delicate yellow Board made the $29.75 million to purchase the property for flower and member of the rose acquisition possible. permanent protection. Once that family, grows in only two places Rancho Corral is the second process is completed, Rancho on earth: Rancho Corral and at POST-protected property to be Corral will serve as an important Pebble Beach on the Monterey included within the boundary of recreational asset for the GGNRA, Peninsula. the GGNRA. In 1995, the Phleger providing an easily accessible Historically known as Rancho Estate in Woodside became part southern entrance to the recre- Corral de Tierra Palomares, the of the park after POST raised ation area and connecting the property encompasses the majority $10.5 million from donors and an congressionally designated Bay of an 1839 Mexican land grant to equal amount in federal matching Area Ridge Trail with the Francisco Guerrero y Palomares, funds to permanently protect the California Coastal Trail. ■ who built the first adobe on the 1,252-acre estate. San Mateo Coast at Rancho Corral’s Denniston Creek. New Gateway to POST acquired 4,262-acre GGNRA Rancho Corral in three phases “The action by Congress and © 2001 Brian O’Neill beginning in 2001 from investors the President to include Rancho who intended to develop housing Corral de Tierra within the and a golf course on the land. boundary sends the clear message Hickman’s Cinquefoil

Just off Highway 1, Purisima Creek Road curves up a rugged valley through old farmsteads and scrub-covered knolls. As you drive into this quiet slice of the Coastside, past rolling green hills where deer, sheep and cattle graze, a gently sloping meadow leading up to a sheer rocky peak comes into view. This is Bluebrush Canyon, and it is POST’s latest land purchase through the Saving the Bluebrush Canyon POST Conservation Easement Endangered Coast campaign. POST Owned Other Protected Located south of Half Moon Bay, this 260-acre property is an Purisima Creek Redwoods excellent example of the signature Open Space Preserve landscapes POST is protecting along the San Mateo Coast. The acquisition of this property— Bluebrush part of the 14,532 acres POST has Canyon protected through the campaign Lobitos Ridge Cowell North CE to date—will result in the protection of the pastoral character of Lower the Purisima Creek Valley and Purisima Creek help safeguard native plants and animals. It will also create a vital Purisima Farms link in a nearly completed trail corridor that will provide hiking access along Lobitos Ridge from Cowell South CE Skyline Ridge to the sea. “This acquisition is a special POST Tunitas Creek opportunity to connect the red-

6 ■ LANDSCAPES Remaining Rural Places: Acquires 260-Acre Bluebrush Canyon

Trail along the Pacific,” said POST historic landslide activity, serves as have been leasing Bluebrush Executive Vice President Walter a navigational marker for hikers Canyon to Half Moon Bay resident Moore. “By protecting this property, in the area. Tom Pacheco, who spends several we will be preserving land that The land is prime habitat for months a year grazing Black Angus represents all four aspects of the endangered San Francisco cattle on its rich pastureland of POST’s mission: natural resource garter snake and the threatened rye grass, fescue and wild oats. For protection, wildlife habitat, recre- California red-legged frog. It is many generations—three on his ation and agriculture.” also hunting grounds for birds of father’s side, five on his mother’s— prey such as red-tailed hawks and his family has been ranching in A Haven for Wildlife golden eagles, which soar over the the area. In fact, his aunt and uncle POST purchased Bluebrush canyon’s Northern Coastal Scrub lived and worked on Bluebrush Canyon in February for just over terrain of tangled willow, coyote Canyon for more than 40 years, $3.2 million from the de Cesare brush and California lilac in beginning in the late 1920s. family, which has owned it since search of their next meal. Pacheco has seen first-hand 1977. Had POST not acquired the the changes that are transforming land, up to two additional private Wide Open Spaces the Coastside from a sleepy agri- residences could have been built The property was originally cultural region into a growing there, spoiling its rural atmos- part of an 1838 Spanish land suburban outpost and vacation phere and impeding its panoramic grant called Rancho Cañada destination. He says his greatest ocean views from Montara Verde y Arroyo de la Purisima. concern for the area is increasing Mountain to the north to Pigeon The historic rancho, covering property subdivision that threatens Point near Pescadero to the south. 8,906 acres, once stretched from to destroy the Coast’s vast expanses Purisima Creek runs along the Purisima to Tunitas creeks. of scenic wilderness and produc- northeastern portion of the prop- In the 1950s and 1960s, the tive ranchland like Bluebrush erty, while Lobitos Creek defines land was part of a 1,000-plus-acre Canyon. its southwestern edge, adjacent to dairy cattle operation co-owned “Everybody’s idea of what POST’s Lobitos Ridge and Lower by the Beffa, Marsh and McCarthy they want to do with their property Purisima Creek properties. families. That ranch included lands changes from generation to gen- On a typical spring afternoon, that are now part of POST’s eration, but I don’t like seeing thick banks of fog melt away to 340-acre Lobitos Ridge property small subdivided parcels all over reveal a prominent rocky knoll immediately to the south and the place,” he said. “If it wasn’t for rising 796 feet above the steeply nearby Elkus Ranch, currently POST being able to acquire these sloped land. The crumbling cliff owned by the University of places, they would be in 20- to face, consisting of ocher-hued California, Berkeley. 40-acre parcels, and the Coast just sandstone exposed as a result of In recent years, the de Cesares wouldn’t be the same.” ■ POST to Trans

For John Giusti, the land is his livelihood. The third-generation farmer learned how to work the soil from his father, Aldo, who grows Brussels sprouts and artichokes along the San Mateo Coast. Now, thanks to a pending agreement with POST, John Giusti plans to own POST’s Purisima Purisima Farms Farms just south of Half Moon Bay, which he currently leases. Once finalized, this agreement will keep fertile fields in the hands of a © 2005 Deane Little local farming family and protect agricultural land from rising development pressures on the Coast.

Protection through Partnerships Since 1998, Giusti has leased 100 acres of the 534-acre Purisima property, where he grows primarily Brussels Sprouts Brussels sprouts on land east of Highway 1. He also leases 121 acres of POST’s Johnston Ranch property near Half Moon Bay. Under the proposed new agreement, Giusti

© 1997 Robert Buelteman © 1997 Robert would purchase the Purisima land from POST. Plans for the protection of this signature coastal property came about thanks to POST’s unique partnership with Giusti and others. POST acquired Purisima Farms in 1998 for $3,942,500 with funding from Purisima Farms 8 ■ LANDSCAPES fer Prime Agricultural Lands to mily

POST supporters, the California Saving Farmland Coastal Conservancy and the from Development California Department of Trans- Giusti’s hopes for his family portation. “As many as six luxury come at an especially challenging © 2005 Deane Little estates could have been developed time for farming on the San Mateo on this oceanside property had Coast. In recent years, many factors POST not acquired the land,” said have impacted the viability of POST Executive Vice President farming in the area and reduced Walter T. Moore. the number of acres currently in The property is currently agricultural production. Land protected by easements held by the costs have sky rocketed; water has California Coastal Conservancy become more scarce; operation and American Land Conservancy. costs, including the price of fuel, John Giusti These easements shield Purisima continue to escalate; processing own the lands he farms instead of Farms from development by facilities have been relocated as far being pressured to sell off to removing the potential to build all as away as Salinas; and equipment developers. Such an arrangement but one single-family dwelling. repair shops and suppliers have will help preserve the Coast’s Those provisions suit Giusti moved away from the Coast and agricultural community, keep and his wife, Maureen, just fine, closer to the giant farming opera- these lands in local ownership, as they hope to build a single home tions of the Central Valley. and save scenic open space.” on the property. The couple has More and more farmers in the three young children and would area are having to lease, not own, Following in a like to raise them on the family the land they work, according to Father’s Footsteps farm, just as Giusti was raised. POST Board member Larry Jacobs, John is not the only Giusti to “Owning this farm is a a farmer who owns Jacobs Farms work with POST to preserve open dream come true for us. We have in Pescadero. space as farmland. In 1992, John’s had to make many sacrifices in “Historically, farmers purchased father Aldo purchased POST’s order to make this purchase their farms, but with time, families North Cowell property, which, happen but we believe that own- stopped farming and leased acreage like Purisima, is protected by ing this property makes good to others. The shift to leased conservation easements owned by sense for our family as well as our ground probably began after WWII POST as well as the California business. We hope that our and accelerated with the movement Coastal Conservancy. The elder children will be able to carry on of new generations to cities,” said Giusti currently owns 597 acres of with the farming tradition of this Jacobs. “With the Giusti agreement, POST-protected land near his land for years to come,” said John POST will be making land afford- son’s agricultural operation on Giusti. able enough so that a farmer can Purisima Farms. ■

SPRING 2006 ■ 9 Whaler’s Cove Reopens to the Public Trail Segment Dedicated to Coastal Champion Mel Lane

Gazing out at the Education Program. Nolan joined when a private developer broke rocky outcroppings nearly 100 other POST friends, ground for a nine-unit motel that of Whaler’s Cove, supporters and agency partners would have permanently blocked a picturesque curve of coastline last November to celebrate the views and access to the beach. at Pigeon Point near Pescadero, opening of Mel’s Lane at Whaler’s Six years later, POST stepped in POST friends and supporters Cove, the first property POST to purchase the land, halt were ecstatic. protected through its Saving the construction and eventually “This is the greatest day in Endangered Coast campaign. reopen the area to the public. 11 years,” exclaimed Mark Nolan, Press event attendees had Director of Outdoor Education waited a long time to see the Trail Honors for the San Mateo Office of fences come down on the scenic Conservationist Education and founder of the bluff top overlooking the cove. Mel Lane Pigeon Point Environmental The area was closed off in 1994 POST transferred Whaler’s Cove to California State Parks in May 2005 for permanent protection and public access. Now part of Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park, it lies adjacent to the © 2005 Elisabeth Fall Pigeon Point lighthouse, which POST also helped State Parks acquire. The quarter-mile trail segment skirting the edge of the bluff is named in honor of Melvin B. Lane, former co-publisher of Sunset magazine and books and a co- founder and former longtime Board member of POST. Lane served as the first chairman of the California Coastal Commission from 1972 to 1977. “We are pleased to be opening this trail to the public and honored to name the trail for Mel Lane. He has devoted much of his life's work to preserving California’s coastline,” said POST President Audrey Rust. Melvin B. Lane 10 ■ LANDSCAPES © 2005 Elisabeth Fall

Susan Hansch, Chief Deputy Director of the California Coastal Commission; Supervisor Richard Gordon of the 3rd District of San Mateo County; Ruth Coleman, Director of California State Parks; Audrey Rust, POST President; Mel Lane; Sam Schuchat, Executive Director of California Coastal Conservancy.

“Without Mel Lane, the families and foundations who made those who will visit this site for California coast would not be the major gifts to the campaign will generations to come,” said inspiring, natural place that so be engraved on permanent plaques. Supervisor Richard Gordon, 3rd many people from all walks of life “Many agencies and individuals District, San Mateo County. “This enjoy today,” said Susan Hansch, have worked to protect this is a great day, now the area is chief deputy director of the special place, which benefits the open to the public again. It’s a Coastal Commission. people of San Mateo County and real treasure,” said Nolan. ■

Open to All Mel’s Lane is one of the most visible segments of the proposed 1,300-mile California Coastal Powers © 2005 Jeff Trail. The gravel-lined path winds through the future site of the Council Circle, POST’s recognition area for special donors to the Saving the Endangered Coast campaign. When completed this spring, the Council Circle will

comprise a ring of stone benches Visitors to Mel’s Lane can enjoy views of the ocean, Prisoner’s Rock and Año Nuevo from the where the names of individuals, lookout point that now stands on the site that was once slated to be a private motel.

SPRING 2006 ■ 11 POST Says Goodbye to Departing Board

With a combined 64 years of Saratoga. These days Vince and service to POST, volunteers his family run a 120-acre ranch, Vince Garrod, Christy Holloway an equestrian center, and the

and Dave Mitchell stepped down award-winning Cooper-Garrod © 2005 Paolo Vescia from the Board at the end of Vineyards. 2005. “We’ll miss the humor, A native of Saratoga, Vince camaraderie and invaluable served on POST’s Board for 23 expertise that Vince, Christy and years and is one of the founders of Dave brought to every Board the Midpeninsula Regional Open meeting, but I know their devotion Space District and the Los Gatos- and enthusiasm for open space Saratoga Recreation Department. will continue in all they do,” said He was also the first president of POST President Audrey Rust. the California Association of “We are infinitely grateful for Resource Conservation Districts Christina A. Holloway everything they’ve done for POST and was an elected member of the and for our local natural lands.” Saratoga school board for 23 years. Association and is a trustee at Of all his years at POST, Vince The Yosemite Fund. says the Saving the Endangered “Of all the places I’ve volun- Coast campaign is a highlight. teered, POST is one of the most Speaking of the ambitious $200 meaningful to me,” said Christy,

© 2005 Paolo Vescia million goal set by the Board, he who joined POST’s Board in 1984 said, “It’s important not to say no. and served as president for a You just go ahead and do it.” number of years. “We’ve permanently changed the landscape of Christina A. Holloway the Peninsula for the better, and Christy Holloway was born that to me is just an extraordinary in England, but she has always felt thing to be involved with.” a deep connection to California’s rural landscapes. In the late 1960s, David W. Mitchell she chaired Environmental Volun- Attorney Dave Mitchell is of Vince S. Garrod teers, then served on the board of counsel at Hoge, Fenton, Jones & the Peninsula Conservation Appel, Inc. in San Jose. He joined Vince S. Garrod Foundation. She was one of the POST’s Board in 1982 and also Vince Garrod’s roots on first co-executive directors of served as president. the Peninsula go back to 1892, Hidden Villa and later chaired its Dave’s pro bono legal work when his grandparents moved to board of trustees. A resident of has helped POST navigate a wide America from England and Stanford, she currently serves as range of transactions, from craft- established Garrod Farms in chair of the board of the Yosemite ing conservation easements and

12 ■ LANDSCAPES Members POST Welcomes Martha J. Kanter to the Board

negotiating tenant leases to help- POST is pleased to ing finalize major land acquisitions. welcome a new member to its A resident of Palo Alto, he is a Board of Directors, Martha J.

board member of the Palo Alto Kanter of Cupertino. © 2006 Paolo Vescia Community Fund and the Martha is chancellor of the Stanford Historical Society. He is Foothill-De Anza Community also a former board member of College District, one of the Community Foundation Silicon largest community college Valley. Although he is stepping districts in the country. A down as a voting member of former public school teacher, POST’s Board, he will continue to she has served as director, dean attend meetings as secretary and and vice chancellor for policy assist POST in arranging planned and research for the California Martha J. Kanter gifts. Community Colleges Chancel- “I feel very nostalgic,” said lor’s Office in Sacramento. In 1993 she was named president of Dave. “Serving on POST’s Board De Anza College, where she served until becoming chancellor in 2003. has been so much fun and such a “I grew up in Boston and spent a lot of time on Cape Cod, big part of my life. POST has where at one time the bay was extremely polluted. The community succeeded in protecting vulnerable joined together to clean up the bay and the remaining open space areas of our local landscape, and was preserved, which instilled in me at a young age a strong aware- I’m honored to have been a part ness of environmental issues,” she said. “We’re all stewards of the of that.” ■ land, and we’ve got to do what we can to preserve the open space we enjoy today for future generations.” Active in many national, state and local organizations, Martha is co-chair of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, Inc., and serves as a trustee of the San Jose Museum of Art, The National Hispanic University and the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. She holds © 2005 Paolo Vescia a doctorate in organization and leadership from the University of San Francisco, a master's degree in education from Harvard University, and a bachelor's degree in sociology from Brandeis University. “Martha is an accomplished educator and innovative leader with a deep passion for open space and a terrific sense of humor,” said POST Board Chair Susan Ford Dorsey. “She brings with her extensive contacts throughout Silicon Valley in diverse communities that POST would like to reach. She is sure to enrich our organization and we are delighted to welcome her aboard.” ■ David W. Mitchell

SPRING 2006 ■ 13 Walk in the Wild: Djerassi Program Grounds and Sculpture Tours 2006

The Djerassi Resident Artists Funding from POST’s purchase of Program (DRAP) will offer two the easement also created an types of tours during the 2006 endowment fund for the Djerassi season. Scheduled are six Director’s Resident Artists Program. Most of Tours at $40 per person and twelve the sculptures on the property free Two-Mile Tours. were made by artists-in-residence The free public tours are a during their month long stay at result of a conservation easement the DRAP ranch. purchased by POST in 1999. The For more information, visit easement protects the natural http://www.openspacetrust.org/ splendor of the 580-acre property. tours-djerassi.htm Untitled. Mauro Staccioli, 1989.

Your honorary and memorial gifts to POST create a lasting tribute to friends and loved ones by helping to protect the beauty, character and diversity of the San Francisco Tributes Peninsula landscape for people here now and for future generations. October 1 - December 31, 2005 If you would like to make a tribute gift please contact Director of Development Daphne Muehle at (650) 854-7696. Gifts in Honor of Gifts in Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Al Anderson Jeffrey’s 59th birthday Vicki and Dave Payne’s Richard H. Anderson Barbara Levin Bob and Jean Ann Joel Jensen wedding John Arata Michael Levine Augsburger Eva and Laszlo Juhos Trisha Pescador John Attwood Jane Li Phil and Erika Bailey Diane and Will Kauffman Paul Pinsky Eva Alexis Bansner Jim Long Kathleen Bennett Madan, Anna and Kai Komar Cindy and Lee Pitt Ryan Barry Emily Lozano Anne and Dave Bernstein Mark Leslie’s 60th birthday Joan Pratt Torstein Bjorke Rose and George Mackay The Brewster Family Martin Levin Peter and Terry Roberts Dolores Bonnard Robert Mand Sara Bunting and Kevin Hy Libby Terence and Patty Roberts Bill Brown Alan Manne Fetterman Dave Mac Kenzie Tony and Leslie Roberts Robert V. Brown Dale McClanahan Cheryl Cathey David and Helen Mac Kenzie John C. Roosma Starr J. Colby James Morey The Clark Family Donald and Janice Audrey Rust Betsy Crowder Gene Nelson Florence Clementson Mac Kenzie Betty Schink Dwight and Betsy Crowder Clyde F. (Terry) O’Neal Stephanie dePascal Jim and Jan Mac Kenzie Mary and Lloyd Mrs. June Daly Ray Poggi Bruce and Karen Douglas Alisa and Neil MacAvoy Schouweiler David C. Daniels Richard F. Reed Diana Dusheck Dan Martin Catherine Scott’s Wallace F. Davis Mary Ann Ringgold the marriage of Karla Eastling Dorian Martinka participation in the Dee’s mother Edwin Roodhouse and Chuck Marsh Nancy Matthews New York Marathon Bruce Dinsmore Albert J. Roosma Mr. and Mrs. Fenerin Robert and Lynn Miller Joan Scott Al Ellison Marge Shecter Marya Fitzgerald Alexia Moore Gladys Siefert Ray Ghelardi Sherrie Smith John Fondahl Kathryn Morelli Ms. Smithlin Vivian Goddard Teruo Sonoda Lauren Fondahl Sally Morgan Alexandra and Doug Polly Phleger Goodan Eileen Spencer Mike and Cathy Foster the marriage of Jesse Moss Standing Roger S. Gropper Raymond Spingarn Dr. Gerald A. Freund and Amanda McBaine Danny van der Rijn Margaret Hadley Daniel Steiling Elise Garza Gandolph George Hart, Justin, Ellie, and Liam Beth Harper Robert Viele Tim, Jan, Nate and Josh Muscarella Walsh Betty Heitin Caroline Wegelin Gillespie Tim Myers Dick and Rossini Zumwalt Mary Power Hood J. Ashley Wilson, Jr. Anna Giske David Nelson Andrew Jakes Frank and Ida Yelonek Erik and Ryan Giske Paul and Antje Newhagen Pearl Kaplan David Zlotnick Inga Giske Judy and Brad O’Brien Avis Koch Tom and Flo Giske Sally O’Neil and KB and KMK Krauskopf Nancy Glasser Ken Bencala Jean Lauer Carol Hake John Ozuna

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Susan Ford Dorsey, Chair Allan F. Brown Annual Giving Larry Jacobs Karla Jurvetson, M.D. POST owes its success to your generosity. We have established a Charlene Kabcenell reputation for achieving visionary land protection goals, leveraging Martha J. Kanter Robert C. Kirkwood your gifts to attract public funding and using your contributions Norman E. Matteoni effectively. Dianne McKenna Paul Newhagen Your annual gifts to POST translate into permanently protected William Reller Karie Thomson lands. POST is able to enter confidently into long-term negotiations for Mark A. Wan acquiring strategic properties knowing that we have your unwavering support. STAFF Audrey C. Rust President We can produce materials to use with landowners, partner agencies Walter T. Moore Executive Vice President and donors that highlight important animal and plant habitats, trail Karen P. Douglas Controller Sarah Allen Development Assistant corridors and future connections to already protected properties. Sara Clark Land Assistant Amy Herbst Communications Associate We can also responsibly steward lands that are in our ownership Jessica Klinke Campaign Assistant awaiting transfer to a public agency for management and public access. Sue Landsittel Conservation Associate Jessica Levy Grants Officer This includes innovative cattle grazing plans, invasive plant removal Alexandra Michalko Land Assistant led by volunteers and much-needed erosion control. Daphne Muehle Director of Development Kellyx Nelson Conservation POST can do all these things, but only if you stay with us. It’s a Project Manager commitment that can change a community. Together our local Nina Nowak Writer/Editor Jane Potter Office Manager/ landscape, rich in history, natural resources, breathtaking views and Executive Assistant recreational opportunities, will be left intact for all of us today and for Jeff Powers Cloverdale Project Manager the future. Paul Ringgold Director of Land Stewardship Adelaide Roberts Director of Tax-deductible gifts of cash or stock are some of the ways to Donor Stewardship Anne Sharman Director of Communications contribute annually to POST. For more information about the benefits Noelle Thurlow Conservation Project Manager of making such a gift, please contact Daphne Muehle, POST’s Director of Development at [email protected] or at 650-854-7696. ■

SPRING 2006 ■ 15 Under the Harvest Moon With Special Thanks to Our Event Sponsors In September, POST hosted Under the Harvest Moon with the extraordinary support of the table sponsors listed below. We thank you for your support and look forward to partnering with you in the future.

COASTAL CHAMPIONS Chris and Carol Espinosa Steve Blank and Alison Elliott The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

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