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Marin Sierra Club
Protect Marin's Hamilton Wetlands from a development disaster - Take Action Now!
SAY "NO" to development near protected wetlands - Save protected species.
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Hello Friends of the Hamilton Wetlands:
Please take immediate action to protect our amazing restored Hamilton Wetlands in Marin County!
Click on the TAKE ACTION NOW LINKS to learn more and send online letters to our elected officials and the Army representative, voicing your concerns for the protection of the Hamilton Wetlands Restoration Project.
A commercial developer is planning to build a massive private sports complex right next to the Hamilton Wetlands Preserve: a model wetland-restoration project on the San Pablo Bay, in Novato. We need your help to stop this development and protect the largest restored wetland in the Bay Area.
The proposed development would be right on top of a former U.S. Army hazardous-waste landfill. Disturbing the landfill by building on top of it could increase the release of toxic waste into the wetlands and the bay. Noise, traffic, light pollution, and litter from the proposed development would also put our wetland ecosystems at risk.
With habitat for over 38 special-status and endangered species, Hamilton Wetlands is known as one of the best places in the Bay Area to watch all kinds of wildlife, from a large diversity of migratory birds and waterfowl to river otters and western pond turtles.
Help protect this environmental treasure by sending a message to Marin's elected officials. This irreplaceable ecosystem is under direct threat from proposed commercial development.
To learn more about this campaign Read the Sierra Club Marin Group position statement here.
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Protect Marin's precious Hamilton Wetlands from a development disaster.
A LETTER FROM CHAPTER CHAIR, BECKY EVANS
A well-connected commercial developer is planning a sprawling private sports complex right next to a model wetland project in Marin. The proposal raises lots of red flags, including the fact that the project site is right on top of an old U.S. Army hazardous-waste landfill. Building on top of the landfill could increase the release of toxic waste into the wetlands and the bay. Noise, traffic, light pollution, and litter from 400,000 estimated yearly visitors would also put our wetland ecosystems at risk.
We need your help to stop this risky development and protect the largest restored wetland in the Bay Area. Will you speak up to protect our wetlands?
What's at stake is Marin County's newest environmental treasure: the Hamilton Wetlands Restoration Project on the San Pablo Bay in Novato. With habitat for over 38 special-status and endangered species, the area is one of the best places in the Bay Area to watch all kinds of wildlife. Hamilton's restoration is the first stage in a larger vision for 2,600 acres of restored tidal and seasonal wetlands. But that vision is now in jeopardy.
Tell your elected officials and Army representatives to stop this risky development in our established open space.
Don't be fooled by slick advertising and manipulated studies paid for by the developer with claims of a "community park"; the entire site would be privately owned and controlled as a for profit sports complex for non-local visitors and professional teams. It would be the largest private sports complex in Northern California.
A sprawling private development on a toxic landfill is not worth the risks to wetland habitat and the Bay. Send a message to Marin's elected officials and Army representatives asking them to protect our wetlands and open space.
Sincerely,
Becky Evans
Chapter Chair
Organization: Sierra Club - San Francisco Bay Chapter
Website: http://sierra.force.com/actions/SanFranciscoBay?actionId=AR0042324