California must build climate resilience now through conservation and stewardship of natural and working lands. Coyote Valley protects communities by buffering wildfires, recharging groundwater, absorbing floodwaters, supporting agriculture, and connecting over one million acres of wildlife corridors. Nature-based solutions are cost-effective, scalable, equitable, and improve public health and biodiversity. High-speed rail remains a necessary environmentally friendly alternative to intrastate car and plane travel. The state should remove obstacles, mitigate unnecessary burdens, seek greater efficiencies, and continue pursuing federal funding to complete high-speed rail and reduce transportation emissions.
Coyote Valley, just south of San José, 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. These aren't just ecological perks. This is essential infrastructure.
"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.
#nature-based-climate-resilience #coyote-valley-conservation #high-speed-rail #infrastructure-investment
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