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FollowWelcome Baby Knowland!
We hear a baby was born in a car very near Knowland Park and the parents have named it Knowland (http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-police-help-deliver-baby-in-car-4026459.php). Congratulations! We hope that in a few years, little Knowland will still be able to run, play and explore the beautiful natural park he or she is named after! And that decades hence, his children will be, too.
Measure A1 Did Not Pass – Against the Odds, Old Fashioned Grassroots Campaigning Worked!
Although votes are still being counted, there is as of now no mathematical or practical possibility that the pro-A1 side could get enough votes to achieve the needed 2/3 majority. They would now need more than 100% of the remaining votes to be yes. So, thanks to all the tremendous effort put forth by so many people, the zoo’s million-dollar campaign did not succeed – just as we hoped, the public sorted this one out for themselves after they read the measure and realized they weren’t being told the full story by Measure A1 proponents.
Update on Alameda County Ballot Count
We learned last night that there is an unusually high number of ballots from Tuesday’s election that remain uncounted – more than 100,000 mail and provisional ballots, on paper, that were mailed or dropped off at polls. The estimate now from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters is that the final certification of results will not be done for a couple more weeks.
However, according to calculations run by a statistically-savvy member of our group, and independently by the East Bay Express, the pro-A1 side would need to get almost 80% of the remaining ballots to change the outcome. This would be highly improbable. So we remain confident, but unfortunately at this point we also just have to remain patient until the final, final is out! And be glad this isn’t Florida!
Wild Animals of the Maritime Chaparral in Knowland Park
Over a period of several weeks, teacher and photographer Christian Naventi took a series of photos of a few of the species of wildlife from within the rare maritime chaparral. This area would be fenced off if the Oakland Zoo succeeds in building its proposed expansion. Setting up a camera along a trail, he was able to capture species that use the area to forage, hunt, and mark their territories.
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