Protected natural and working lands in Coyote Valley provide buffers from wildfires, recharge groundwater through floodplains, absorb stormwater in wetlands, prevent downstream flooding, produce food on farmlands, and connect over one million acres of wildlife corridors. These natural functions serve as essential infrastructure that enhances public health, biodiversity, equity, and climate resilience. Nature-based solutions are cost-effective, scalable, and protect all communities. Support for continuing California's high-speed rail emphasizes reducing intrastate car and plane travel, providing an environmentally friendly alternative, and urging removal of obstacles, efficiency gains, and pursuit of federal support.
As climate impacts intensify, California must act now to build climate resilience for tomorrow and for future generations. Coyote Valley, just south of San Jose, offers a model for how conservation and stewardship of nature can do that. Here, protected natural and working lands provide a buffer from catastrophic wildfires, floodplains recharge groundwater, wetlands soak up rains to prevent downstream flooding, farmlands grow our food and open space connects over one million acres of critical wildlife corridors.
Yes! California's high-speed rail should continue, is my answer to your question of Aug. 17. I am a transplant from New England. California had many things of which to be proud. It is never a time to create things of which to be ashamed. All the reasons to attempt this project are still valid. We still need to wean ourselves off intrastate car and plane travel, or at least, provide a good alternative. This is still the environmentally friendly thing to do.
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