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National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (SCLDF)
CA Dept. Of Fish & Game
Agency seeks public comments on a project
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comments on a project that would build 71 homes on San Bruno Mountain. Comments should be based upon a permit application to destroy habitat and butterflies, and the service's environmental assessment report. The deadline is June 16.
Brookfield Homes is seeking an incidental take permit from USFW to build homes on the Mountain's northeast ridge, in habitat for the callippe silverspot butterfly, a federal endangered species.
As mitigation, the San Mateo County Habitat Trust would be guaranteed a $4 million endowment from the developer to maintain other habitat at Guadalupe Canyon Parkway.
The Brisbane City Council approved a tentative map to limit where and what can be developed and what will be conserved.
Copies of the application and the environmental assessment report can be obtained from Eric Tattersall, acting chief of Conservation Planning and Recovery Division, Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento Fish and Wildlife office, 2800 Cottage Way, W-2605, Sacramento, CA, 95825. 916-414-6600.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO --
Friday March 30 2007
WALK AND PRAY TO HONOR OHLONE AND ALL ANCESTORS PROTECT THE SAN BRUNO MOUNTAIN SHELLMOUND!
The timing is crucial. This shellmound that we walked to in 2005 sits just north of a gigantic development site where work is scheduled to begin next month. Right now this is a wild slope just above the Bayshore Highway on San Bruno Mountain. The SF Chronicle called the development the largest planned in the region since 2001. Office Towers, supermarket, cinemas, and condos that developers call a “campus” will bring traffic, noise, pollution, and consumerism to within yards of this sacred site. San Bruno Mountain Watch says proper studies of the impact have not been done. Many South San Franciscans oppose development and our walk will encourage them to stand up for this sacred site and Mother Earth.
Walk co-sponsored by Indian People Organizing for Change (IPOC), Vallejo Intertribal, Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order, San Bruno Mountain Watch.
For more information, contact 925-286-5869.
Tentative plan—South San Francisco BART station to Brisbane (6-8 miles total). Visit 3 shellmound sites—the first one covered over by urban development, the second gravely at risk, the third undisturbed and beautiful in springtime. Walk through downtown SSF past Old City Hall where decisions about development get made. Details and times of ceremonies at the 3 shellmounds available soon.
A 5,000-year-old Ohlone Indian shellmound in South City contains "unique" data worth preserving and may indeed be the oldest record of Bay Area human history, according to a report commissioned by developers who plan to build on the land.
The archaeological evaluation, prepared for the planned Terra Bay project, is also critical of the developer's plans for protecting the shellmound, which holds ancient human burials as well as cultural artifacts.
Current plans for handling the site include grading and compacting the surrounding area, filling it with up to six feet of dirt and covering part of the mound itself with two paved parking lots. The report said doing so could damage the archaeological record and "expose, disturb, or even destroy human burials in the site."
Although the report, done by Holman and Associates of San Francisco, questions the developer's plans for protecting the site, that is not seen as a problem by Terra Bay representative Dennis Breen of Sterling Pacific Management Services in Phoenix, the developer.
Call Friends of San Bruno Mountain at (415) 584-7320 to assist with the new native plant garden. or find out about this unique bastion of open space, snails and snakes.
A new variety of coffee plant was developed several years ago that grows in full sunlight and requires lots of pesticide and fertilizer. Prior to this, all coffee grew in shade, i.e., under a rainforest canopy, and didn't require any pesticide or fertilizer. The "old" coffee, at least in Mexico and Central America, also provided winter habitat for song birds from the eastern U.S. Nowadays since the passage of NAFTA, accelerated planting of this new variety results in less rainforest and fewer songbirds (such as the Baltimore Oriole), and more pollution. Many eastern songbirds have started to decline in numbers since this new coffee was introduced. Fortunately, the coffee we used to drink is now called "organic" or "shade grown" coffee; you make the choice. Buy now, b4 prices go up! TED: Shade Grown Coffee
Short answer, yes and no!, depends on the C'tor. Here's some code to use for testing (taken from Blogs)
SGEN utility was used to pregenerate the XmlSerializers, saves some compilation time and shouldn't go into a different appdomain
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
private static bool leakMemory = true;
private static XmlSerializer serial = null;
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
for (int index = 0; index < 1000000; index++) {
Test test = new Test();
test.Id = index;
test.Time = DateTime.Now;
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(builder);
if (leakMemory || serial == null)
{
serial = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Test)); // NO LEAK
serial = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Base), new Type[] { typeof(Test) }); // LEAKS!!!!
serial = new TestSerializer(); // NO LEAKS, using pregenerated DLLs
}
serial.Serialize(writer, test);
string xml = builder.ToString();
/** add-ons to the original sample so as to exhaust possible workarounds */
serial = null;
test = null;
builder = null;
writer.Close();
writer = null;
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100); // allow GC to kick off
GC.Collect();
/* end of additions */
}
}
}