More Open Space Protected in Bay Area

Good news. Notice that this is in Walnut Creek, which is kind of the Orange County of the Bay Area; no communes there, but plenty of attorneys and business owners. The city (and its neighbors) want property values to stay high and they know which side their bread is buttered on, so they spend the money to preserve the space. The John Muir Land Trust contributed as well.

One of the valuable things this does is preserve a large stretch of contiguous space. You can see this better in the East Bay Ridge below, which stretches (almost) uninterrupted from Richmond to Fremont. Around here we have unintentional preserves in the form of the parks and canyons abutting Miramar MCAS (like Mission Trails); military bases are often accidental wildlife refuges.