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May 16, 2025 - KQED Perspectives

Andrea Mackenzie: Preserve California’s Landscape

Open Space Authority General Manager Andrea Mackenzie shares her thoughts on oak woodlands and their significance as a quintessential California landscape. 

Click here to listen to the episode.
 

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May 9, 2025 - San Jose Spotlight

Silicon Valley nonprofit’s purchase furthers Coyote Valley legacy

A multimillion-dollar purchase of 207 acres by the Peninsula Open Space Trust adds a critical safety facet to the preservation of  Coyote Valley in South County.

Read the full article here. 

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April 22, 2025 - San Jose Spotlight

Op-Ed Andrea Mackenzie: Earth Month — a time to recognize all that nature does for us

Infrastructure isn’t often associated with beauty or inspiration — but in the case of nature, it’s both. The natural environment does more for us than most of us understand. Earth Month reminds us nature isn’t an abstract concept, it’s an asset we must steward and invest in because nature is the most resilient, cost-effective and life-sustaining infrastructure we have.

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April 5, 2025 - ABC7 News

Coyote Valley Open Space concerned about funding for accessible trail project amid federal cuts

The budget upheaval in Washington is triggering concern among environmental planners here in the Bay Area. 

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Public-Private Partnership Protects Another Key Open Space in the Santa Cruz Mountains

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Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) and the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority (Authority) today announced the purchase of a 159-acre property that widens a vital linkage between the Authority’s Rancho Cañada del Oro and Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District’s (Midpen’s) Sierra Azul open space preserves. This adjacency provides opportunities for connecting recreation options across the two preserves, while securing wildlife habitat and expanding a protected corridor between Highway 17 and Coyote Valley – a high priority area for both organizations in their shared goal of creating habitat linkages for native wildlife.
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Our Open Spaces Provide Us with Benefits Valued up to $12.6 Billion

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The value of sweeping open space, working lands, and a thriving natural world can be difficult to place a numerical value on, but a collaboration between the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, the Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County, and Sonoma County Ag + Open Space has done just that by estimating the monetary value of our soil, water, air, plants, and animals – in other words, our ‘natural capital.’
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Open Space Authority Preserves First Redwood Property

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Open Space Authority Preserves First Redwood Property, Gifted by the McPhee Family San Jose, CA – February 26, 2018: The Julian McPhee family donated a 112-acre property adjacent to Uvas Canyon County Park in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority.
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POST Purchases Key Property in mid-Coyote Valley

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October 24, 2017 - (Palo Alto, Calif.) Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) announced today the purchase of a 63-acre property at the intersection of Santa Teresa Boulevard and Richmond Avenue in the mid-Coyote Valley, near the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority’s Coyote Valley Open Space Preserve. This acquisition marks the second project that POST has completed in the Valley over the past 6 months.
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Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority Publishes Landmark Vision for Coyote Valley

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June 15, 2017, San Jose CA: The Coyote Valley Landscape Linkage report articulates a vision to protect and restore areas within Coyote Valley that are critical to ensure ecological connectivity, health, and resilience to climate change. This landmark report, released by the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, outlines recommendations to create a landscape linkage for wildlife, connecting and protecting the biodiversity between the Santa Cruz and Diablo Mountain Ranges.