The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area

Index

Abascal, Ralph, 221 Abramowitz, Mark, 213 Adams, Ansel, 22, 100, 114, 125 Adams, Janet, 9, 104, 107, 115, 126 Adams, Seth, 50, 77, 147 Adirondack Forest Preserve, New York, 20, 28 agriculture, 3, 35, 37, 38–42; California Land Conservation Act (Williamson Act) (1965), 43, 189, 194; and canneries , 41; and capitalism, 37–39; decline of, 43–45; environmental effects of, 11, 28, 222; farmland loss, 43–44, 66, 86; farmland protection, 43–44, 189– 91, 197, 199, 201; and food promotion , 41–42; and land trusts, 175–77; orchards, 38, 57; and processing, 40– 41, 44, 45; Sonoma County Agricultural Marketing Program, 198; traces on landscape, 37, 39–40, 42; and transport networks, 40; and urbanization, 43–44, 146. See also land trusts; Napa; Sonoma; wine Akono, Azibuke, 235 Alameda County, 112; agriculture, 38; 355 index growth controls, 148–49; mining, 54; parks, 72, 74, 75; protected land, 108; water supply, 47, 50. See also Berkeley; East Bay Municipal Utilities District; East Bay Regional Parks District; Oakland Albany, 70, 113 Albright, Horace, 17, 65. See also National Park Service Alcatraz, 94, 95, 97 Almaden, 41. See also New Almaden mines Altamont Pass, 72, 167, 228 Angel, Bradley, 236, 241 Angel Island, 56, 84, 94, 97; saving of, 89; state park, 68, 90 Anthony, Carl, 232, 233, 237, 239, 243, 244, 245, 253 Antioch, 79, 124, 148 Appalachian Mountain Club, 20, 24 Arguimbau, Nick, 210, 211 Arrigoni, Peter, 92 Asian Pacific Islander Environmental Network (apen), 231, 233, 246, 253 Association of Bay Area Governments (abag), 179, 190, 194, 247, 298n20; and growth controls, 148; origins of, 138; and regional shoreline trail, 157; and regional transportation, 140; and Smart Growth, 153 Audubon Society, 16, 20, 89, 92, 114, 120, 203, 208; Bay chapter, 217; Golden Gate chapter, 236; Marin chapter, 89, 91, 122; South Bay chapter, 218 Azevedo, Margaret, 91, 93 Bari, Judi, 14, 34, 232 Bauer, Catherine, 132 bay. See San Francisco Bay; see also Monterey Bay, Richardson Bay, San Pablo Bay, Suisun Bay Bay Area, 3, 35, 42, 57, 108, 189; agriculture , 35, 37, 38–42; air pollution, 209– 15, 227–28; antinuclear movement, 124–26, 293n34; and class, 6, 82, 163; as conservation hearth, 20, 22–23; and critiques of environmental regulation , 150–52; defined, 3; energy supply, 123–24; and environmental health, 226–27; and environmental justice, 13, 231, 232, 247, 252; and environmentalism , 17–18, 22, 34, 115, 130, 131, 132, 134, 209, 250; exceptionalism, 7; farmland loss, 43–44; greenbelt, 3, 26, 108, 138, 157–58, 180; and government reform, 136; growth of, 82, 131, 136, 146, 159, 160, 253; and growth controls, 130, 142–45, 147–50, 161; housing prices, 151–52, 162; as Left Coast, 17; and liberal environmentalism , 8–18, 134, 249–52; maps, iv, xxv; and militarization, 112–13; natural gifts, 7–8; open space, 3, 62, 83, 108, 180; parks, 59–79; and planning, 130– 42; political culture, 13–15, 17, 130, 131, 132, 134, 159, 160, 168–69, 247, 249–50; population, 7, 19, 131, 159; refineries, 211–12; and second homes, 192, 194– 95; and Smart Growth movement, 153–54; and toxics movement, 220– 27, 228; urbanized area, 3, 36, 108, 253; wealth of, 10, 19, 38, 57, 162, 163, 181, 192; and wine, 187–88 Bay Area Air Quality Management District (baaqmd), 210, 212, 214, 233, 235 Bay Area Council, 137, 141, 153, 247 Bay Area Open Space Council, 149, 153, 178–80, 191, 214 Bay Area Regional Water Quality Control Board, 144, 216 Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, 157 Bay Conservation and Development Commission (bcdc), 122, 126, 215; and Bay Shoreline Trail, 158; and Coastal Conservancy, 178; leaders of, 95, 127, 136, 141; and wetlands, 111, 115, 116, 119 Bay Institute, 52, 117, 217 Behr, Peter, 91, 92 Belliveau, Mike, 14, 211, 222, 223, 238, 241 Bennett, Marty, 204 Berkeley, 15, 17, 70, 154, 209, 253; and abag, 298n20; bay fill, 113; canneries, 45; creek restoration, 51–52; Hillside Club, 63; quarries, 55; parks, 63–64, 72, 79; and Save the Bay Association, 114; water supply, 48. See also East Bay Hills; University of California, Berkeley Berkeley Creek Restoration Ordinance (1989), 52 Berryessa, Lake, 50, 190 Bicycle Coalitions, 215 Big Basin: state park, 28, 34, 58, 64, 68, 99, 100, 171; protection of, 29–30 Bodega Head, 124, 194–95 Bodovitz, Joe 115, 127, 141 Bolinas, 27 Bonwell, Art, 77 356 index Boone and...