November 2014 Voter’s Guide
Never mind the barrage of campaign ads filling your mailbox and coming after you on TV. All you have to do this year is Vote the Environment. To help you do so, Treehuggers International has compiled a last-minute voter’s guide to the 2014 midterm elections. This piece will continue to be updated with newer picks throughout the day on Election Day for California and San Diego County, and with polls open until 8:00 pm you’ve got plenty of time to vote – so please vote the environment, and let’s prove the pollsters wrong on turnout.
November 2014 Voter Guide
All you have to do this year is Vote the Environment. To help you do so, Treehuggers International has compiled a last-minute voter’s guide to the 2014 midterm elections in San Diego County. This piece will continue to be updated with newer picks throughout the day on Election Day for California, and with polls open until 8:00 pm you’ve got plenty of time to vote on Election Day – so please vote the environment this year, and let’s prove the pollsters wrong on turnout.
Radical Plans Threaten Balboa Park’s Historic Integrity
A proposal to build a freeway-style off ramp from the Cabrillo Bridge at San Diego’s Balboa Park is raising more than a few eyebrows among preservationists and park advocates. Even the National Park Service is voicing its concern, stating the development threatens Balboa Park’s status as a National Historic Site. Bruce Coons of the Save Our Heritage Organisation talks about the proposed redesign’s threats to the integrity of one of the nation’s great urban spaces.
Peg Reiter and the Legacy of Jerry Schad
A special conversation with Peg Reiter, Jerry Schad’s widow, about their hikes, explorations, and all too brief time together, along with Peg’s involvement with Jerry’s final book, 50 Best Short Hikes San Diego. Peg Reiter came to play an instrumental role in the completion of the book, and after consulting with the team at Wilderness Press, Treehuggers International producer and host Tommy Hough felt the best way to feature the book and Jerry’s lasting legacy, was to welcome Peg onto the program.
Losing A Friend: Jerry Schad, 1949 – 2011
A hiker, outdoorsman, astronomer and lifelong Californian, Jerry Schad was the author of 16 books, including Afoot and Afield In San Diego, considered the definitive publication of San Diego County hikes and trails. He was also the author of Orange and Los Angeles county editions of Afoot and Afield, a regional “best of,” and books on bicycling and trail running. Jerry also authored the Roam-A-Rama column in the San Diego Reader, which ran for 18 years until he brought it to a close earlier this year.
Jerry Schad’s Afoot and Afield Legacy
Before long, I was driving up fire roads on the Los Coyotes reservation near Warner Springs to the forests at the base of Hot Springs Mountain, only to be sideswiped by a view of the Salton Sea I will never forget, appearing like a giant mirage through the trees. I visited the oak groves of Oakoasis in Lakeside and was pleased to find such heavy tree wisdom so close to civilization, cared for as a county park. I walked along the headwaters of the wild Santa Margarita River on the backside of Camp Pendleton, and was calmed by its stillness and quiet.
Fireworks Over La Jolla Cove
Environmental attorney Marco Gonzalez is the co-founder of the Coast Law Group and the Executive Director of CERF, the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation, and has been in the vanguard in the fight against fireworks displays over the beaches at La Jolla Cove. Mr. Gonzalez and his team have also been active in pointing out the willingness of elected officials, and even the pubic, to turn a blind eye to blatant violations of state and federal clean water and clean air laws.
Pro Peninsula Wild and Scenic Film Festival and International Sea Turtle Symposium
Treehuggers International extends our thanks to Pro Peninsula for again naming us the official media sponsor of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, presented this year in conjunction with the International Sea Turtle Symposium. We welcome Pro Peninsula Executive Director Kama Dean and Communications and Marketing Manager Giuliana Schroeder back to the show, along with Dr. Jeffrey Seminoff from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and leader of the Marine Turtle Ecology and Assessment Program.
