It began as a request from a private citizen.

We support the San Lorenzo Valley Water District Plan to control Silver Wattle Acacia, French Broom, and Portuguese Broom at the Olympia Wellfield site. We are environmental scientists, each with over 20 years of experience restoring coastal California ecosystems. We consider the proposed methods consistent with best management practices to remove these invasive species, conserve the threatened Santa Cruz sand hills habitat, and minimize risks to water quality.

Dear Editor, This note is in regard to the proposed management of invasive plants on water district property. The sand hills in question are full...

In 2004, Dr. Jodi McGraw wrote a 354-page Sandhills Conservation and Management Plan: A Strategy for Preserving Native Diversity in the Santa Cruz Sandhills, for the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County. One section of the report assessed various eradication techniques for invasive plants.

April 12, 2017

Dear Editor   April 7

by Bruce Holloway

The most recent storms have pushed damages in the County to more than $30 million in damage to our local roads and infrastructure, causing some of the most significant challenges in recent memory.

I was headed to San Francisco on Saturday evening, Feb. 18, around 5 p.m. We were stopped in the fast lane of Highway 17 about one mile south of the Granite Creek exit in Scotts Valley.