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fromThe Mercury News
2 weeks agoLetters: Bay Area must do better to protect our children
The community must shift investment from punishment to prevention, supporting youth with violence prevention, education, and safe public spaces.
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.