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Breuner Field
The Dotson Family Marsh, formerly Breuner Marsh, is a 238-acre (96 ha)North Richmond's Wetlands Threatened by Development , Pacific Institute, access date August 8, 2008Breuner Marsh Stewardship by Aleta George, Bay Nature, March 2006, access date August 8, 2008 Parchester Village Residents Fight to Preser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breuner Marsh
The Dotson Family Marsh, formerly Breuner Marsh, is a 238-acre (96 ha)North Richmond's Wetlands Threatened by Development , Pacific Institute, access date August 8, 2008Breuner Marsh Stewardship by Aleta George, Bay Nature, March 2006, access date August 8, 2008 Parchester Village Residents Fight to Preser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breuner Field
The Dotson Family Marsh, formerly Breuner Marsh, is a 238-acre (96 ha)North Richmond's Wetlands Threatened by Development , Pacific Institute, access date August 8, 2008Breuner Marsh Stewardship by Aleta George, Bay Nature, March 2006, access date August 8, 2008 Parchester Village Residents Fight to Preser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:Category:Parks In Richmond, California
This is a category for parks and recreation areas in the city of Richmond, California. Both public and private. Richmond Richmond Richmond Parks Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, Californi ... Tourist attractions in Richmond, California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Bay Trail
The San Francisco Bay Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian trail that when finished will allow continuous travel around the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. As of 2020, of the trail have been completed. When finished, the trail will be over of paved and gravel paths, bike lanes, and sidewalks, linking 47 cities across nine counties and crossing seven toll bridges. It is a project of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), in collaboration with other agencies, private companies, non-profit organizations, and advocacy groups. The trail is intended to provide recreation for hikers and bicyclists, viewpoints for wildlife, space for environmental education, and corridors for bicycle transportation as well as access to historic, natural and cultural sites, including over 130 parks. Route The Bay Trail is an interconnected trail system that links parks, open spaces, points of interest, and communities on or near the bay s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Clapper Rail
Ridgway's rail (''Rallus obsoletus'') is a near-threatened species of bird. It is found principally in California's San Francisco Bay to southern Baja California. A member of the rail family, Rallidae, it is a chicken-sized bird that rarely flies. This species is closely related to the clapper rail, and until recently was considered a subspecies. It has a long, downward curving bill and is grayish brown with a pale chestnut breast and conspicuous whitish rump patch. The population levels of Ridgway's rail are precariously low due to destruction of its coastal and estuarine marshland habitat by prior land development and shoreline fill. It has year-long, circadian activity and is most vocal nocturnally and crepuscularly. The Ridgway's rail pertains to the Rallidae family within order Gruiformes. The California subspecies naturally exists in tidal salt and brackish marshes. These ecosystems are subjected to freely flowing daily tidal flows, a sustainable amount of prey food sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse
The salt marsh harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys raviventris''), also known as the red-bellied harvest mouse, is an endangered rodent endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area salt marshes in California. The two distinct subspecies are both endangered and listed together on federal and state endangered-species lists. The northern subspecies (''R. r. halicoetes'') is lighter in color and inhabits the northern marshes of the bay, and the southern subspecies (''R. r. raviventris'') lives in the East and South Bay marshes. They are both quite similar in appearance to their congener species, the Western harvest mouse, ''R. megalotis'', to which they are not closely related. Genetic studies of the northern subspecies have revealed that the salt marsh harvest mouse is most closely related to the plains harvest mouse, ''R. montanus'', which occurs now in the Midwest. Its endangered designation is due to its limited range, historic decline in population and continuing threat of habitat loss du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endangered Species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and invasive species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List lists the global conservation status of many species, and various other agencies assess the status of species within particular areas. Many nations have laws that protect conservation-reliant species which, for example, forbid hunting, restrict land development, or create protected areas. Some endangered species are the target of extensive conservation efforts such as captive breeding and habitat restoration. Human activity is a significant cause in causing some species to become endangered. Conservation status The conservation status of a species indicates the likelihood that it will become extinct. Multiple factors are considered when assessing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-tailed Kite
The white-tailed kite (''Elanus leucurus'') is a small raptor found in western North America and parts of South America. It replaces the related Old World black-winged kite in its native range. Taxonomy The white-tailed kite was described in 1818 by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot under the binomial name ''Milvus leucurus'' with the type locality as Paraguay. It is now one of four species in the genus ''Elanus'' which was introduced in 1809 by the French zoologist Jules-César Savigny. The word ''Elanus'' is from Ancient Greek ''elanos'' for a "kite". The specific epithet ''leucurus'' is from the Ancient Greek ''leukouros'' for "white-tailed": ''leukos'' is "white" and ''oura'' is "tail". For some recent decades, it was lumped with the black-winged kite of Europe and Africa as ''Elanus caeruleus'' and was collectively called black-shouldered kite. More recently it was argued that the white-tailed kite differed from the Old World species in size, shape, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the big cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. San Francisco Bay drains water from approximately 40 percent of California. Water from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and from the Sierra Nevada mountains, flow into Suisun Bay, which then travels through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay. It then connects to the Pacific Ocean via the Golden Gate strait. However, this entire group of interconnected bays is often called the ''San Francisco Bay''. The bay was designated a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance on February 2, 2017. Size The bay covers somewhere between , depending on which sub-bays (such as San Pablo Bay), estuaries, wetlands, and so on are included in the measurement. The main part of the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eminent Domain
Eminent domain (United States, Philippines), land acquisition (India, Malaysia, Singapore), compulsory purchase/acquisition (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom), resumption (Hong Kong, Uganda), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia, Barbados, New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom), or expropriation (Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Serbia) is the power of a state, provincial, or national government to take private property for public use. It does not include the power to take and transfer ownership of private property from one property owner to another private property owner without a valid public purpose. This power can be legislatively delegated by the state to municipalities, government subdivisions, or even to private persons or corporations, when they are authorized by the legislature to exercise the func ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayle McLaughlin
Gayle McLaughlin (born 1952) is an American politician from Richmond, California. She was first elected to the Richmond City Council in 2004 when she was a member of the Green Party of California. She won two consecutive four-year terms as the city's mayor in 2006 and 2010. After reaching the mayoral term limit, she was reelected to the City Council in 2014. In June 2017, she announced her candidacy for lieutenant governor of California in the 2018 election. McLaughlin's election in 2006 made Richmond the largest U.S. city led by a Green Party member. She has advocated for a minimum wage increase and a plan to forcibly appropriate foreclosed home mortgages from banks. She has led an ongoing effort to restrict the municipal influence of Richmond's largest employer, the Chevron Corporation, and to refashion its environmental obligations. Early life and education McLaughlin was born into a working class family in Chicago. The middle child of five daughters, her father was a uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transit Village
A transit village is a pedestrian-friendly mixed-use district or neighborhood oriented around the station of a high-quality transit system, such as rail or B.R.T. Often a civic square of public space abuts the train station, functioning as the hub or centerpiece of the surrounding community and encouraging social interaction. While mainly residential in nature, many transit villages offer convenience retail and services to residents heading to and from train stations. The term "transit villages" was popularized in the 1997 book by Michael Bernick and Robert Cervero, ''Transit Villages for the 21st Century'', whose cover shows a mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly community infilling what then was a surface park-and-ride lot of the Pleasant Hill BART station area, and what is now the Contra Costa Centre Transit Village. In their book, the authors distinguished transit villages from transit-oriented development (TOD) as more residential-oriented in land-use composition, with neighborh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
