265 Moffett Blvd
BAA’s Mountain View office and organic garden from 1999 to 2001.
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504 Emerson St
The birthplace of BAA and the office of Earth Day 1990. Originally on the ground floor (#504), later in the basement (#504-A).
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715 Colorado Ave
BAA’s second home, in Midtown Palo Alto. BAA ran the building and sublet to numerous small businesses and nonprofits.
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Arastradero Preserve
BAA staff and volunteers took on invasive species, habitat degradation, and loss of native oaks in a historic project stewarding the 609-acre Palo Alto park.
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
ANWR is a vital ecosystem supporting diverse wildlife, including polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds from six continents.
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Bair Island
Grassroots activists fought developers for decades, ultimately preserving Bair Island in 1997 as part of a national wildlife refuge.
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Butano Forest
Activists fought to preserve Butano’s redwoods during the 1990s timber wars, opposing increased logging efforts.
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California Coast
The CA coast was threatened in the 1990s by offshore oil drilling and logging. Activists fought back, leading to local ordinances and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
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Cargill Salt Marshes
Cargill’s salt ponds provide habitat for diverse wildlife but pose risks of toxic bittern spills, threatening Bay ecosystems.
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Clayoquot Sound
Endangered forest in British Columbia, about 5 hours west of Vancouver.
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Coyote Valley
In the late 1990s tech campuses and housing developments threatened Coyote Valley’s open space, wildlife habitat, and agricultural lands.
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East Palo Alto Community Garden
EPA-HAS and BAA ran a thriving organic community garden where families could grow and sell their own food.
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Edgewood Park
Development threats, invasive species, habitat degradation, and endangered species decline, led to conservation efforts and a “Natural Preserve” designation in 1993.
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Foothills Park
Adjoining Arastradero Preserve, Foothills was site of Acterra’s Native Plants Nursery in 2001. Foothills has also hosted many BAA events.
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Gazos Mountain Camp
Gazos Mountain Camp hosts critical marbled murrelet habitat, coho salmon watershed, and old-growth redwoods, supporting endangered species conservation.
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Headwaters Forest
BAA members and activists from all over fought to save Headwaters from Maxxam’s threat, from 1990’s Redwood Summer until the US government purchased it in 1999.
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Humboldt County
Timber wars, habitat loss, endangered species decline, and watershed degradation threatened Humboldt County’s ecosystems throughout the 1990s
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Los Trancos Creek
Peninsula creek in the Stanford hills that runs into San Francisquito Creek.
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Midtown Palo Alto Community Garden
A small but impactful community organic garden operated by BAA from 1994 to 1999, just a short walk from BAA’s Colorado Ave office.
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Mitchell Park
BAA hosted many events at Mitchell Park over the years, including Earth Day festivals and fundraiser concerts.
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Moffett Field
Activist groups such as BAA raised concerns in the 1990s about groundwater and soil contaminated by VOCs, pesticides, PCBs, and heavy metals.
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Montara Mountain
Development threats, habitat fragmentation, erosion, invasive species, and endangered plant loss challenged Montara Mountain’s unique ecosystem.
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Ohlone Field
Despite its significance as Ohlone ancestral land and sensitive riparian habitat, Stanford University developed the open space at the edge of San Francisquito Creek.
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Palo Alto Baylands
The Baylands is critical habitat for migratory birds, endangered species, and wetland ecosystem resilience. BAA performed regular clean-ups here in the early 1990s.
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Peninsula Conservation Center
Home of the PCCF from 1993 to 2000 when it merged with BAA to become Acterra. The building is cooperatively run with numerous other nonprofit.
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Pigeon Point
In the 1990s Pigeon Point faced habitat degradation, invasive species, and development pressure threatening its coastal ecosystem and historic lighthouse.
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Potrero Commons
Activists fought to preserve open space on San Francisco’s Potrero Hill in the 1990s, opposing development plans for Portola Commons.
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San Antonio Shopping Center
BAA’s Eco-Store had a temporary home in this shopping center for a period in late 1993 and early 1994.
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San Bruno Mountain
San Bruno Mountain hosts rare plants and endangered butterflies, a biodiversity hotspot just south of urban San Francisco.
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San Francisco Bay
The body of water for which the region is named. Earth Day 2002 focused on issues revolving around SF Bay.
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San Francisco Estuary
The estuary encompasses the SF Bay and extends inland, featuring a salinity gradient and diverse ecosystems from saltwater to freshwater habitats.
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San Francisquito Creek
Steelhead trout, red-legged frogs, and native riparian plants thrive here. BAA volunteers cleaned the creek many times over the years, and cooperated with the CRMP.
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Santa Cruz Mountains
BAA criticized Big Creek Lumber for habitat destruction and watershed impacts in the mountain range between San Francisco to Salinas Valley, Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay.
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Searsville Dam
Searsville Dam blocked fish migration, degraded habitat, increased invasive species, and accumulated sediment flowing into San Francisquito Creek
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St. Patrick’s Seminary
St. Patrick’s Seminary faced controversial plans for 145 million-dollar homes, sparking preservation efforts and legal battles in the 1990s.
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Stanford Foothills
Much-loved open space in the hills above and southwest of Stanford that the university has been trying to develop for decades.
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Ward Valley
Desert site near the Colorado River, home to endangered desert tortoises, threatened in the 1990s by radioactive waste disposal plans, and ultimately defeated.
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Yosemite
Air pollution, wildfires, overcrowding, habitat degradation, and development pressures threatened Yosemite’s ecosystems and visitor experience in the 1990s.
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