Urban Canyonlands

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ARTICLES / COLUMNS
Restoration effort starts for canyons
Mike Lee, San Diego Union-Tribune
Article, Aug. 13, 2005,
Community and environmental groups yesterday christened an unprecedented effort to restore San Diego's canyons and reduce pollution in San Diego Bay.

San Diego's Canyonlands
Sanford Goodkin, SD Daily Transcript
Column, March 24, 2005
One of San Diego's most extraordinary assets, its canyonlands, provides the linkage and the uniqueness which sets this region apart. San Diego has more canyons than any other city.

Venice's canals; San Diego's canyons
Richard Louv, San Diego Union-Tribune
Column, May 10, 2005,
Last week, the San Diego Unified School District announced a resurrected plan to flatten and fill a portion of Golden Hill's Thirty-Second Street Canyon. For years, people who live in the immediate community had resisted the district's efforts to first build a school in the canyon. They thought they had won. Now comes a new threat: a proposed ball field.

Teaching Kids About Our Canyons:
A watershed day for San Diego
Eric Bowlby, Mary Ann Sandersfeld & Tershia D'Elgin, Voice of San Diego
Column, April 11, 2005
For five years the Sierra Club Canyons Campaign has been fostering awareness, appreciation and community involvement in stewardship of San Diego's unique open space canyons. The program has built 30 new "friends groups" for canyons and creeks throughout San Diego and is now working with other groups to increase the enrollment of San Diego's youth.