... fuel economy standards, is an advocate of California Desert Protection and CALFED, and believes in healthy forest preservation. She was also a part of the Lake Tahoe restoration, the San Francisco Bay Wetlands restoration and the Headwater's Forest agreement. These statutory accomplishments reveal some of her views on our environment. Her choices in legislature involve the continued preservation of our environment ... million fund to stabilize the program. The senator reinforces her preservation views of natural resources through her support of the healthy forest movement, the Headwater...

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... habitats to replace those that were wiped out by drainage. Also, from the late 1950's until 1970, plans were in the works to allow for the expansion of San Francisco, Oakland and the communities near the San Francisco Bay by draining and filling in at an "astounding rate over 2,000 acres of marsh and bay per year." A local group founded by Catherine Kerr, Save ... San Francisco Bay Association, was able to halt the development of the wetlands until a commission designed and implemented a plan to curb expansion. The expansion was decreased from 2000 to 25 acres per ... ...

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