The campaign to save Knowland Park, a grassroots effort born from people’s love for this place, is just one among many, many other grassroots efforts to defend our remaining parks and open space. These efforts have common threads:
About Ruth
Ruth Malone is an Oakland resident since 1983, a founding member and co-chair of Friends of Knowland Park and a longtime Oakland neighborhood activist. Since 2007, she has been working to educate and organize environmentalists, park users, and community members to protect the park. In her day job, she is a professor of nursing and health policy at University of California, San Francisco, where she helps students study the links between health and political, social and natural environments, and conducts research on the tobacco industry and its efforts to thwart public health efforts worldwide. Ruth Malone’s Reflections Blog offers a combination of reflective essays and updates from the Protect Knowland Park Campaign, linking the fight to protect Knowland Park to broader environmental and ethical issues.A locally-based 21st century conservation movement: There are others out there
FollowWelcome to saveknowland.org!
The purpose of this site is to educate the public about Knowland Park and the campaign to protect its rare, beautiful natural resources from being lost to a “conservation”-themed Oakland Zoo expansion into the park. Enjoy the photographs of the Park’s wildflowers and other native plants, its birds and animals, its views and vistas.
Learn about the history of Knowland Park, the threat to its preservation, and the campaign to protect it. Find out how to access its trails. Our blog will be published twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and at other intervals as new events happen or new information becomes available.
Ways you can help:
- Go to our Take Action page and find out how to help protect Knowland Park
- Subscribe now to the blog! Get regular email updates on new blog posts and updates on our campaign Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/Atv6B5
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- Comment on our posts and share our site with your network.
- Contact us directly to get more involved.
Thank you so much for your help and interest in redefining conservation in the 21st Century.
Protecting the Park by demanding real environmental review
On January 13, 2012, lawyers for Friends of Knowland Park and the California Native Plant Society filed their opening brief in their lawsuit against the city of Oakland and the Oakland Zoo, which seeks to compel the city to prepare a full environmental impact report on the Zoo’s Knowland Park development project. The City and Zoo will file their opposing brief in February, after which we will have an opportunity to respond to it. The case will be heard in April.
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