Francis Collins’ Boatworks plans, dated December 2014, went before the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission this week. The plan is to create 182 new homes, scaled back from the 240 proposed in the project’s original plan. As part of the project, the Bay Trail will be extended along the estuary creating an open space for the public to use.
A pair of golfers walk past one of the many huge fallen trees on the Chuck Corica Golf Complex Tuesday. The root system of the fallen tree sticks up just behind the golfer with the red hat at left.
The Chuck Corica Golf Course is still feeling the after effects of a heavy windstorm that struck Alameda last week.
Jerry Juhala and Dean Lauermam work in the CERT’s mobile disaster unit. The unit served as the command post during the search for Anthony Michael Brown
Members of Tau Beta Pi remove weeds near the least tern nesting area in November.
Volunteers at the Alameda Point nesting site of the endangered California least tern continued their efforts this fall after a successful 2014 nesting season.
The first recorded use of the airfield by the least terns was in the mid-1970s when the Navy began efforts to protect their nesting area from vehicle and personnel disturbance. Today, Alameda Point is one of California’s endangered species success stories.
