mhlt newsletter spring | summer 2014

M U I R H E R I T A G E L A N D T R U S T

H O R I Z O N SS P R I N G | S U M M E R 2 0 1 4T H I S L A N D I S Y O U R L A N D

P rote c t ing the Place s That Make Cont ra Costa Spec ia l

MUIR HERITAGE LAND TRUST CELEBRATE S 25 YEA RS

Muir Her i tage Land Trust H O R I ZO N S

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W E S T I L L B E L I E V E

Muir Heritage Land Trust’s mission is as compelling today as it was when Tina Batt, Hal Olson, Tim Platt and Nancy Schaefer founded the organization 25 years ago. The institution that has grown from their vision is extraordinary. As it has since 1989, MHLT engages with some of the most difficult issues facing our region. The Land Trust’s continuing leadership in protecting

natural resources and promoting social progress grow from those historic roots. We still believe that the vitality of our open spaces is essential to the health of our earth, air, water and our native plants and animals—and all of us. We still believe that MHLT’s protection and stewardship of our precious natural areas is the best way to ensure that those preserved lands continue to enrich and sustain all generations of life. Our quality, reputation, and continuing relevance were built by generations of supporters. Like you, they gave because they believed MHLT’s actions and ideas were important. They gave because they thought MHLT would change the world for the better. They were right. MHLT did. And we still do. That is why Muir Heritage Land Trust is great. With your help that greatness will endure. And Muir Heritage Land Trust will continue to acquire, protect, and care for the places that make Contra Costa special, for generations to come. Thank you.

Linus Eukel, Execut ive Direc tor

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Point is an exciting new smart-phone application developed by Canogle, Inc. and the Muir Heritage Land Trust. Point turns your smartphone into a powerful learning tool that lets you have the joy of connecting to what’s around you. It allows you to choose and engage with meaningful information you’re passionate about. Point brings trail stories alive while you explore the places

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M u i r H e r i ta g e L a n d t r u s t

P.O. Box 2452Martinez, CA 94553

925-228-5460info@muirheritagelandtrust.orgwww.muirheritagelandtrust.org

Staff

Linus EukelExecutive Director

Holly HenkeDirector of Development

Glen LewisOpen Space Ranger

Carolina do Val CallaoDatabase Manager

Johna WintersAdministrative Director

Board of directorS

Denis Huston Chair

Charles Lewis IV Vice Chair

Steven Kirby Secretary

Bill Wadsworth Treasurer

Bob AstonDawn BlockPaul Craig

Eliot R. HudsonSteve HutchcraftBeth Mallonee

editor

Linus Eukel

NewSletter coNtriButorS

Sherida BushLinus Eukel

Gunther KorshakGlen Lewis

[email protected]/muirheritagelandtrust

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Photo Credits: Cover Image by Gary Crabbe/Enlightened Images; www.enlightphoto.com

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Take a look from the top of a quarter of a century. The view is good,

achieved one step at a time. As our 25th Anniversary approaches, we pause to survey what the Muir Heritage Land Trust has accomplished, and how our work has added to the richness and abundance of life.

We protect our nearby open space, water, air and wildlife, and create opportunities for people to experience nearby wild lands.

The health and wholeness of our region define our own. Come with us and discover how we make life better, more beautiful. The view is good.

B E A U T I F U L L I F E

This Land i s YO U R Land

We began because local open space needed an advocate, a refuge.

A developer planned to preserve 150 acres of pastoral land in Alhambra Valley, setting it aside from a planned subdivision. But at the time, no

effective option or organization existed that would permanently protect the land. The Martinez Regional Land Trust incorporated in 1989 to protect the open space with a conservation easement.

Today, the property is open to the Stonehurst residents, who enjoy walking the open space. The land will always be protected, providing recreational opportunities for families and habitat for native life.

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STON EHURST

We protect our nearby

open space, water, air

and wildlife, and create

opportunities for people

to experience nearby

wild lands.

When John Muir sauntered up the hills he named after his daughters, Wanda and Helen, he often took the girls with him:

Another lovely day, mostly solid sunshine. Took a fine fragrant walk…the babies delighted.

The 325-acre Mt. Wanda property, once part of Muir’s landholdings, was not included when the John Muir National Historic Site was es-tablished in 1964. The land was about to be purchased by the National Park Service in 1991, but the deal was on the brink of falling through. The Land Trust again played a unique role by pledging the funds needed to complete the sale.

Experience your own “fine fragrant walk” on Mt. Wanda—it’s your land to explore.


When community members wanted a place to dig in the dirt, to plant, to reap an edible harvest, the Land Trust helped establish a community garden, in partnership with the City of Martinez.

The Land Trust has been a fiscal sponsor of the popular garden, located in Hidden Lakes Park, since its start in 1997. Participants rent a plot of land for a nominal fee to grow vegetables and flowers

Today’s greater housing density squeezes garden space from homes. Community gardens provide a place for people to produce healthy food and connect to a living, growing—rewarding—part of nature.

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MOUNT WANDA

F E R T I L E G R O U N DCommunity GardenCommunity gardens

provide a place for people

to produce healthy food

and connect to a living,

growing—rewarding—

part of nature.

To the north of Sky Ranch, 80 acres of open space were about to be subdivided in 2000. The development plans included paving historic Feeder Trail #1, turning it into a road for homeowner access. The Land Trust stepped in to acquire the property, forever protecting the popular, multi-use trail, and leaving the land and wildlife undisturbed.

Gustin Ranch’s thickly wooded swales dip between grass-covered hills. From every direction, the eye is delighted by sweeping views—of the Carquinez Strait, Mt. Diablo and the Sierras.

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On one of the highest reaches of the Franklin Hills, 242 acres known as Sky Ranch became a priority for the Land Trust in 1997. The land was central to a key wildlife trail and agricultural corridor that linked to public lands. Over three long years, we raised the money—an unprecedented amount for us—and purchased the property.

Sky Ranch remains a glimpse of the 19th century, when open land stretched for miles with few signs of human presence. Trails with intriguing slopes and turns unfold before you, and the calm of a distant era can still be found there. Just as we forever changed the destiny of Sky Ranch, the land changed us. Our goals and our experience expanded in 1999, so we changed our name to reflect a broader vision. We became the Muir Heritage Land Trust.

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GUSTIN RANCH

When wildlife becomes isolated by burgeoning subdivisions, their very survival is in jeopardy. The Land Trust has long identified the Franklin Hills as a prime wildlife corridor that allows animals to roam and thrive. By 2003, the Land Trust held two wonderful properties there—Sky Ranch and Gustin Ranch—but they did not connect.

Then the Dutra family approached the Land Trust, hoping we would buy 159 acres that had been in their family since 1917. Dutra Ranch was the connecting link. When the Land Trust purchased the land in 2004, we protected a wildlife and recreational corridor of 480 acres of contiguous open space.


Some say it’s five, some only three. The percentage of saltwater tidal wet-lands remaining in the vast San Francisco Bay is small.

At the mouth of Walnut Creek, 247 acres of former saltwater tidal marsh on the Carquinez Strait was long ago diked from tidal action. After a decade of effort that included enlisting the East Bay Regional Park District and the Contra Costa County Flood Control District as partners, the Land Trust was able to protect the property in 2001.

Restoring tidal flow is essential to plans for the land. Re-flooding the area will establish a rich habitat for countless species, as well as provide natural flood and erosion control.

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A community treasure was slipping away. Margaret Bodfish had hoped that her seven-acre Orinda property would be preserved as a public park after her death. Despite years of committed effort by local groups and neighbors, the land was headed for subdivision.

At the 11th hour, the Land Trust acquired the property in 2003 to preserve it as a wildlife sanctuary and public open space. Today, a conservation easement protects the land, its dream-world forest and its footpaths, which connect to nearby trails.

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Freshwater vernal pools along busy Highway 4 seem an unlikely home for an endangered plant. But here, a golden, daisy-like flower makes the most of its ephemeral display on spring days. The Land Trust protects and cares for this last-known stand of Contra Costa Goldfields in its namesake county.

We hold a conservation easement on the 30 acres that is home to this rare species. The number of plants had plummeted to only 30 by 2002, when the Land Trust took over stewardship. The plants are flourishing once again, and their numbers are back in the thousands.

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BODFISH PRESERVE

STEWARDSHIPLand is more than just

property that is bought

and sold. It is the home

we all share. It is up to

all of us to manage and

care for these resources

responsibly for the future.

From the age of 13, Bernardo Fernandez roamed the world after leaving his native Portugal in 1843. After a decade or so, he landed on a promising shoreline that later became the town of Pinole. Bernardo started a prosperous shipping business and in time established a 9,000-acre cattle ranch.

Around 150 years later, Fernandez descendants approached the Land Trust to preserve the 702 acres that remained of the ranch. We purchased the property in 2005 and launched a large-scale restoration, completed in 2010.

The stunning land provides rich habitat for a wealth of native wildlife, such as the American badger, great horned owl, mountain lion and endangered red-legged frog.


Sometimes it takes a couple of decades to protect a parcel of open space. So it was for 483-acre Franklin Canyon, where massive development plans were twice approved by the Hercules City Council. Hercules voters curtailed those plans, but the privately owned property could still be subdivided.

At last, the resplendent land adjacent to our Fernandez Ranch was forever

protected when the Land Trust purchased it in 2010, establishing 1,125 acres of contiguous open space.

Franklin Canyon provides abundant habitat for native, threatened and endangered species of plants and wildlife, such as the western pond turtle. Plans for public access include new trails that provide links to the 550-mile Bay Area Ridge Trail and 500-mile San Francisco Bay Trail.

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FERNANDEZ RANCH

Our local, wild lands will always need an advocate, a refuge, a caretaker. For the past 25 years, the Land Trust has been all of those. For the next 25, let us all imagine a beautiful, healthful place to live, then work together to shape it. <

T H E B E S T I S Y E T T OCome with us to define the future, one where nature abounds.


The highest hill in Acalanes Ridge offers panoramic views of at least ten East Bay cities as well as surrounding open lands. To protect the 23-acre parcel, the Land Trust formed an innova-tive partnership with the City of Lafayette, the City of Walnut Creek and the East Bay Regional Park District.

In 2010, Acalanes Ridge opened to the public. New trails, built with the help of volunteers, connect with Acalanes Ridge Open Space and Briones Regional Park. Popular with families, the open space is a great place to observe native creatures, enjoy scenic vistas and experience nature’s serenity.

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Our local, wild lands will

always need an advocate,

a refuge, a caretaker.

Martinez—The State Coastal Conservancy has granted $206,500 to the Muir Heritage Land Trust to fund projects for public access and habitat improvements on its 702-acre Fernandez Ranch and 483-acre Franklin Canyon properties.

“This funding is part of fulfilling the promise to the community to protect and open the Franklin Canyon property to the public, an event that so many have worked for and anticipated for almost 25 years,” said Linus Eukel, Executive Director of the Muir Heritage Land Trust.

With the funds, the Land Trust will design and build 2.5 miles of new trails that will link the two adjacent properties and create a new segment of the 550-mile Bay Area Ridge Trail, as well as potentially connect to the Bay Trail and Intermodal Transportation Center at the City of Hercules shoreline. “The trails will connect neighborhoods to nature,” said Eukel. “Adults and children in the area will have unprecedented access

S TAT E C OA S TA L C O N S E R VA N C Y G R A N T

to a spectacular and resource-rich open space within walking distance of their homes and schools.”

Additional projects funded include improving riparian and pond habitats by adding fencing

and grazing control, which also improves growing

conditions for native plant species.

The funds will allow for the planning, design and permitting

processes required for the work.

The Land Trust purchased the Franklin Canyon property in 2010, and since completed the necessary environmental review of the proposed projects according to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

After acquiring the adjacent Fernandez Ranch property in 2005, the Land Trust completed a $3.5 million restoration and public access plan in 2010. The proposed new trails on the Franklin Canyon property will link with Fernandez Ranch trails, greatly expanding recreational opportunities in the area and allowing the public to enjoy the land’s beautiful forests,

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Blazing the Trail

Keep i t WILD

Wildlife depend on

the lands we save

valleys, grasslands and spectacular views.

Together, the two properties provide 1,185 contiguous acres of wildlife habitat. The open space supports native wildlife, trees and vegetation, including numerous special-status species: Alameda whipsnake (threatened), California red-legged frog (threatened), the Mount Diablo sunflower (state listed as rare and endangered) and the western pond turtle (species of special concern). The open space is comprised of oak and bay forests, grassland, brush-covered terrain and riparian areas. Native species of note living or foraging on the land are mountain lion, raptors, the locally rare fragile fern and the elusive American badger.

Community support for protecting the vital resources of Franklin Canyon has been strong for more than two decades. Since 1990, more than one proposal for massive development of the property was approved, but resistance from the public and the wider environmental community halted those plans, which would have removed 3,000 oaks trees, imperiled watershed and destroyed 217 acres of vital habitat. The open space was permanently protected when the Land Trust purchased it in 2005.

The State Coastal Conservancy contributed to the acquisition

of both Fernandez Ranch and Franklin Canyon properties, along with the East Bay Regional Park District, the State Resources Agency, private foundations and many individual donors. This new Conservancy funding demonstrates the agency’s continued support for the Muir Heritage Land Trust, these critical open lands and the role of open space in promoting healthier communities. <

For more information about the Muir Heritage Land Trust, visit www.muirheritagelandtrust.org.


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Point embraces mobile technology for future generations and defines the art of mobile interpretation for today’s visitor. Muir Heritage Land

Trust invites you come explore Fernandez Ranch with Point and embark on an adventure that is special to you and your family.

Muir Heritage Land Trust is grateful to the following people and organizations for their generous participation in this project: Doug McConnell, Convergence Media, Gary Bogue, Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Joseph A. Ovick, Contra Costa County Office of Education, Tom Leatherman, National Park Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Saint Marys College, Oakland Museum of California, University of California Press, Restoration Design Group, Volmar Natural Lands Consulting, Xreyvision Design, Orinda Hiking Club, Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, San Francisco Bay Trail Project, Bechtel Foundation, State Coastal Conservancy, and the California State Resources Agency. <

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Muir Her i tage Land Trust M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T

Muir Heritage Land Trust protects and cares for open space, ranches, farms, parkland and shoreline in Contra Costa County.

M A R Y A N N E & J I M GA E B E

Jim and Mary Ann Gaebe spend a good part of their lives making

their community a better place to live. Much of that has been investing gifts of time and money in the Muir Heritage Land Trust—even before the organization existed.

Mary Ann is a founder of the Land Trust, which she says was established “to protect as much local open space as possible before development overwhelmed it.”

Jim and Mary Ann settled in Alhambra Valley in 1971 and raised their two sons. They kept horses and chickens, rescued dogs and cats and grew organic food. They both became active in many local nonprofit organizations and remain so today. Mary Ann is now retired from her job as Business Manager at Hope Center Covenant Church and Jim is retired from the Berkeley Police Department. Mary Ann served for 13 years on

the Land Trust Board of Directors and continues to contribute by serving on key Land Trust committees. Both she and Jim are tireless volunteers at events, both

large and small, and they also lend financial support to the Land Trust as Stewardship Circle members. “Protecting open space means everything to us,” she said, “for so many reasons.”

One word expresses what Mary Ann likes about being out on wild lands:

“Everything,” she said. “Nothing is more healing for me.”

Mary Ann believes that everything she and Jim have invested in the Land Trust is worth it. “It has been our privilege to be a part of this organization and protect open space for future generations. The Land Trust’s accomplishments are astonishing, but there is much more to do.” <


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We P rote c t the LANDS You Love

Everything we depend on

comes from the earth. Some

of these resources are non-

renewable, or in limited

supply. There are many

ways to live responsibly and

sustainably, now and in

the future. Muir Heritage

Land Trust permanently

protects land throughout

Contra Costa to safeguard

our local natural resources

and this beautiful place we

call home.


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T H A N K YO U , L O U !

The Muir Heritage Land Trust would like to extend our special

thanks and a fond farewell to board member Louis E. Stoddard. Lou served three terms on the board of directors for the Muir Heritage Land Trust, each time with distinction. His long career in International and Private Banking, M.B.A. from the Wharton School, combined with his personal passion for natural resources conservation provided an extraordinary contribution to the Land Trust. For most of his many years, Lou served as Board Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee, including during some of the most challenging years in California’s economic history. Lou continues to serve on the finance committee and will always be part of MHLT’s big, diverse, wonderful family. As part of our extended family, Lou has also served as a wonderful role model who taught us to:

• Breathe…even while the CA economy was crashing and bond funds were freezing.

• Do the right thing…due diligence and financial oversight, always.

• Wear multiple hats…attend meetings, build trails, raise funds, review financials, and more.

• Take care of your body…hike, run, bike, swim, and more.

• Be kind…Lou is kind.

• Accept compliments graciously…“I’ve had fun.”

• Make sure you dedicate yourself to something you love…loving husband, father,

grandparent, friend, and truly dedicated nine-year board member, supporter of the Muir Heritage Land Trust. Thank you, Lou!

“Make sure you dedicate yourself to something you love…”

Muir Heritage Land Trust is grateful to

departing Development Manager Gunther Korshak who has been a member of the Muir Heritage Land Trust staff for the last three years. While here, Gunther’s hard work and professionalism have contributed to improvements in MHLT’s development operations and database management.

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Gunther is leaving for a new position with Mal Warwick Donor Digital, a for-profit fundraising agency in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he will help manage direct marketing appeals for a number of clients. Muir Heritage Land Trust is fortunate to have benefitted from Gunther’s talents for all these years. Thank you, Gunther and good luck for

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It A l l Depends on WATER Our most precious

natural resource

Muir Her i tage Land Trust VISION

Muir Heritage Land Trust believes that the vitality of our open spaces is

essential to the health of our earth, air, water and our native plants and

animals – and all of us. Our vision is to ensure that the beauty, diversity

and fullness of our natural areas continue to enrich and sustain all

generations of life.

We acquire, protect and steward these diminishing lands, and we foster

environmental awareness so that each person understands the need to

preserve our natural heritage. We work for a healthful future, one where

natural areas and all who depend on them will flourish.

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Helen KimballMarian KingKatherine KinoshitaNorman KirshenGeorge KleemanKathy KleinLouanne Klein*Ron KlinePete KlostermanAllison Koerber and Tim FlahertyBarbara Lee Kohn*Therese KonzGregg and Anne KorbinRalph and Carolyn KraetschMark KrauthTim and Julie KruseWally KubicekBarbara KuklewiczNorman La ForceEric LacyGloria LairdJennifer LathamRon and Paula LathropBrad LeachMisa LealJohn and Aiko LeeChaz and Tonya LemmonBarbara LevanderGlen Lewis and Martha JosephStuart and Mary Beth LillyHwi Ling NgLinda LockeBill and Tieli LongSaundra and Robert LormandJanet LuhmannMargaret LunaDavid and Juanita LutherSuzanne and Nathan LutzKathleen LynchJames and Shirley LynchBarbara LynchTatia Mac KinnonJohn and Shirley MacDonaldRennett MacIntyreBeth and Scott MacyMargaret MagyaryMark and Teresa MakarewiczJon and Kimberly MarangoniLinda MarguliesHelen MarlowSteven and Susana MaronVirginia MarquesDavid and Marilyn MartinJoan MasseyDaniel MatsonSherrill MattsonEllen MaurerAnne McCabeLorraine McCauslandJoye and Charles McCoy

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Chandra Paolini-PooleThomas ParkKathleen ParkerDoreen PascoJohn Pasco Jr.Marilyn Paskert*Nancy and Thomas PattenAnne-Lise PeacheeSandra PearsonAnita PearsonHildah PembertonJohn and Dianne PereiraThomas and Cynthia PetersDolores PetersenVeronica PetersenD J PetersenJuanita PetersonMaryly PhillipsChristine PirtzGisela PitreJordan and Noreen PittaBeatrice PixaGary and Jean PokornyZeta PoliLorraine and Warren PossinHelene and Roy PowlanRajiv PrabhakarBarbara PrattBarbara ProfeBetty and Kenneth Purchase*Rina PutnamPaul Radosevich and Elise ThomasWendy RaggioCharleen RainesSusan and Doug RandallWayne and Barbara Ras-mussenVirginia and Blake ReamesEugene ReddingChristopher ReedConstance RegaliaKay and Paul ReganPam RegatusoJean K. ReillyVictor and Jean RemoriniVirginia RenwickTommiette ReyCharles and Linda RickenbacherCharles Rickershauser*Garrett RieggSharon RingDon and Sharon RitcheySonia RivasPeter and Eileen RobertshawMardy Robinson*Aldo RoccaJune RogersDiana and James Rogers*

Shari RosalesRaab Rosalind David RoseMaxine RosstonEd and Dawn RothKathleen Roth M.D.Mary C. RussellJudith RyanDavid and Shari SafianoffBrent and Debra SalmiRoger and Jeane SamuelsenJan SandersonMartha and Jim SanfordLawrence and Elaine SantoneSubir and Mary SanyalGlendoris SargentLaura and Lance SavatgyElene SayreJulie ScaffMark and Leslie SchillingerAlice SchofieldJacqueline and Jeff SchubertDavid and Adele SeaborgDavid ShackelfordEdward and Laurie ShafferPeter and Helen SheaffJoanne and William SherrardRichard SilbertJudith SilvaCindy and Thomas SilvaNancy and Frederick Jr. SilveyKatherine SilveyLeslie and Elizabeth SimmondsRobert Simmons and Judy WhelanLaurel SingerIgor and Shirleymae SkaredoffDana SlausonW. L. and Evelyn SlessingerAlan and JoanSmithDavid Smith and Theresa BlairWilliam D. and Phyllis Smith*Gregory and Jocelyn SmyersMildred SnelsonCharles and Muriel SonneCathy SponsellerErnest SponzilliKonni StalicaHenry and Susan StaufferMargaret H. SteeleDonald and Beverly SteffenAnn SteppanSusan and Maury SternMr. and Mrs. B. Albert Stern, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Robert StoddardBreana StokesGeorge and Helene StraussHarlan Strickland and Carol WileyDavid and Linda SturgisFred and Georgine Sullivan



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Maura Sullivan and Mary HamiltonGretchen SummersAmi Sun and Pierre JasminAlan and Dawn SurgesGeorge and Anna SutherlandJohn and Elouise SutterGreg SuttonVirginia SwanbergJoseph SwicegoodJodie TaylorMitch and Kirsten Taylor-RandallBruce Teel and JoAnne DunecJane and Nicolas ThakarBrian ThiessenJeanne ThomasMarlene ThompsonA. ThorwirthHelen TontiNancy ToppRonald ToppingJim TownsendGeorge TrianoTracy and Anne TrotterDoris TuckerPetal TurnerJohn and Paula TylerRalph and Veronica VacaChristopher Valle-RiestraMarta Van Loan and Barbara HannafanMonica VenablesDiane and Frank VervoortSuzanne VigerMartin and Polina VitzMari VlastosJules and Cecilia VoergeSue-Ellyn VuylstekeVirginia and William Wadsworth+Michael and Joyce WahligElizabeth WaidtlowKathleen WaiteDonn and Tracy Walklet

Catherine WallenMashuri and Rahima WarrenRosa WatsonMichael and Theresa WeberBill WeinerMari WeissJudith WeitznerJerry WendtJerry and Linda WendtAnn and Edward WenselRobert and Karen WetherellIdell WeydemeyerMark Whatley and Danuta ZarodaDavid and Carol WhetstoneClaudia WhitnahBillie and Barry WhittakerTim and Meredith Wieland*Clifford WiestRichard WillBurlington WillesJoscelyn WillettScott and Kay WilliamsMike and Cecil WilliamsMargie Williams and Mark AndersonVirginia WilliamsonChris and Teri WillsRebecca WilsonPeter and Amelia WilsonFred WiltVelvia WimmerMichael Wood and Birgit Hueglin-WoodStephanie WoodsFrank and Tania WoodwardShirley WynnMartin and Jenelyn WyspianskiSteven Young and Rochelle LipmanGina ZagottaRuth ZamistMark and Karen Zemelman

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California State Coastal ConservancyEast Bay Regional Park DistrictNational Park Service

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Absolute PlumbingBlock Talent PartnersC. Overaa & Co.California Bank of CommerceCanogle, Inc.Canyon SportsCar Donation Services, Inc.Chevron Products CompanyFirst Republic BankGarcia Associates GANDAHanford A.R.C.John Muir HealthMechanics BankPacific Gas and Electric CompanyPhillips 66Republic ServicesRestoration Design GroupScott Valley BankShell Oil Products U. S.Tesoro Refining & Marketing Co.The Dow Chemical CompanyUnion BankValero Benicia RefineryWine Thieves

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Contra Costa Hills ClubEl Cerrito Garden ClubIBEW Local 302Orinda Hiking ClubPlumbers and Steamfitters Local 159Trails Club of RossmoorWednesday Walkers

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Kiryle FoundationRichmond Community FoundationS.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

employee matchiNg gift programS

Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.Bank of America Charitable FoundationChevron Humankind Matching Gift ProgramCompton FoundationHeller ConsultingIBM Corporation Matching Grants ProgramKaiser Permanente Community Giving CampaignMicrosoft Matching Gifts ProgramPG&E Corporation FoundationS.D. Bechtel, Jr. FoundationTesoro Refining & Marketing Co.

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Americano Restaurant & Bar Bob AstonTina Batt and Bob DoyleBay Nature Berkeley Repertory Theatre Dawn BlockBlue Waters Kayaking Cambiate Cleanse Cavallo Point Diane CoventryKay Cox and Paul CraigDiablo Rock Gym FunFlicks Drew GoettingHafner Vineyard Maurice and Jean HeleyEliot HudsonDenis HustonSteve HutchcraftKaur Photography Steve KirbyChuck LewisBeth MalloneeDoug McConnellOliveto Restaurant and Cafe Pegasus Voyages

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Peet’s Coffee & Tea Renaissance ClubSport Ted RobertsonRound Hill Country Club Maggie ShepardSkin Spirit Lou StoddardNicolas ThakarTreehouse Green Gifts Tri-Valley Conservancy The Meritage Resort & Spa Ginger and Bill WadsworthWente Vineyards Whole Foods Wine Thieves

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Avista Audio & Visual Rentals Community Focus Contra Costa Times/BANG Diablo Publications Hafner Vineyard Safeway Savoy Events Trader Joe’s Wente Vineyards

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Protecting the Places That Make Contra Costa Special

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Protecting the Places That Make Contra Costa Special

S AV E T H E DAT EM U I R H E R I TA G E L A N D T R U S T25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Saturday, August 23, 20144:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Historic Fernandez Ranch702-acres of beautifully restored open space1075 Christie Rd, Martinez, California

Information and Tickets:www.muirheritagelandtrust.org

925-228-8833

mhlt newsletter spring | summer 2014

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