Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
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OpenRoad with Doug McConnell and Friends: 10 Years of Accomplishments with Measure AA
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This episode takes you on a journey along the newly improved Alpine Road Trail in Midpen’s Coal Creek Preserve, and features a host of rare local wildlife that are benefitting from restoration efforts in Midpen preserves, all funded by voter-approved Measure AA. (Originally aired on NBC Bay Area in 2024)
Celebrating Open Space Accomplishments at the 10-Year Anniversary of Measure AA
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On the 10-year anniversary of voters passing Midpen's Measure AA, we reflect on the projects this support has allowed Midpen to complete on the public's behalf, from preserving nearly 10,000 additional acres, restoring the natural environment and building new trails and trailheads for the public to enjoy. Oringally aired on NBC in 2024 as part of OpenRoad with Doug McConnell and Friends.
OpenRoad with Doug McConnell and Friends: Alpine Road Trail Renewed (2024)
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Explore a 2.5-mile section of Alpine Road Trail through Midpen's Coal Creek Open Space Preserve that has been improved and made sustainable for the surrounding natural environment and into the future for people thanks to Measure AA funding. This trail provides an important regional connection from the the bayside of the Peninsula to the greenbelt of open space and trails along Skyline Ridge.
OpenRoad with Doug McConnell and Friends: Wildlife Safari (2024)
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From snakes to bats and California's only native freshwater turtle, learn how projects funded by Midpen's Measure AA are benefiting rare wildlife in the preserves. Originally broadcast on NBC in 2024.
Diesel tank excavation in Bear Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve
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As part of Midpen’s mission to reclaim natural areas and restore the land’s natural functions to support a healthy thriving ecosystem, staff recently completed the cleanup of this old landfill discovered within the preserve. The cleanup involved the removal of a 1,200 pound diesel storage tank. Read the full story here: www.openspace.org/stories/restoring-nature-preserving-history-bear-creek-re...
FY22 Accomplishments Video
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FY22 Accomplishments Video
Stories of Mount Umunhum Stop 1 - Summit Shelter
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Welcome - At this stop you’ll be introduced to Mount Umunhum. Here, visitors will be standing on one of the highest peaks in the Bay Area at almost 3,486 feet in elevation - high enough to get snow on a cold winter’s day. From the summit, you can enjoy a 360-degree view spanning more than 2,000 miles. Along with its human history, you’ll discover the unique climate and habitat that makes the Su...
Stories of Mount Umunhum Stop 3 - Radar Tower West Side
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Air Force History - This eight story concrete tower was once a base holding a large radar dish operated by the US Air Force. Between 1957 and 1980, the Air Force used Mount Umunhum’s spectacular views to help protect the West Coast from the possible threat of Soviet planes during the Cold War. The Almaden Air Force Station permanently closed in 1980 when satellite technology made the radar stat...
Stories of Mount Umunhum Stop 4 - Radar Tower East Side
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A Clean Watershed - Today, the summit supports a different kind of technology that is also serving an important role for people: measuring drinking water. Learn how Mount Umunhum is part of a network of weather stations that affect water that eventually comes out of faucets in people’s homes in the valley below.
Stories of Mount Umunhum Stop 5 - East Summit
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Life on the Summit - This mountaintop was not an easy place to live. The high elevation and exposure means it can be baking hot or bitterly cold. Winds can reach 100 miles per hour, and it’s not unusual to see snow in the winter, or for up to ten inches of rain to fall in a single day. Learn how in spite of these challenges, this mountaintop is surprisingly rich with plants and wildlife. Life o...
Stories of Mount Umunhum Stop 6 - Ceremonial Circle
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Creation Story - The first people to visit Mount Umunhum thousands of years ago were the native people of California for whom this mountain was sacred. Their descendants requested a place where they could return to Mount Umunhum for the first time in nearly 200 years to pray and dance where they feel closer to their creator, just like their ancestors did. Music for Creation Story ("Sukhin Sprin...
Stories of Mount Umunhum Stop 7 - West Summit
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Conservation Lands - Standing near the highest point on Mount Umunhum you’ll see the City of Santa Cruz and beyond to the Pacific Ocean. Look directly down the spine of the Santa Cruz Mountains towards other Midpen preserves. A special plaque dedicates Mount Umunhum to you, the public, for generations to come.
Stories of Mount Umunhum Stop 2 - Cantilever Deck
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Views - The deck provides an exhilarating vantage point from which to enjoy sweeping views of the valley below. To the north is the Peninsula, San Francisco and Mount Tamalpais beyond. On a clear day you can even see the Golden Gate Bridge.
How To: Trail Explorer App Tutorial
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Learn how to use the new Trail Explorer app created by Midpen’s expert map-makers in our award-winning Geographic Information Systems (GIS) department. This interactive online tool allows you to filter for 10 different criteria to find the Midpen trails that best suit the experience you’re seeking, from contemplative nature study to easy-access trails a family can enjoy together to more challen...
Midpen Accomplishments FY23
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Midpen Accomplishments FY23
Midpen Grants Connect Local Children to Nature - OpenRoad 2023
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Midpen Grants Connect Local Children to Nature - OpenRoad 2023
Discovering Purple Martins in Sierra Azul Preserve- OpenRoad 2023
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Discovering Purple Martins in Sierra Azul Preserve- OpenRoad 2023
Discovering Kangaroo Rats in Sierra Azul Preserve - OpenRoad 2023
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Discovering Kangaroo Rats in Sierra Azul Preserve - OpenRoad 2023
Wildlife, Ponds and Saved by Nature - OpenRoad with Doug McConnell
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Wildlife, Ponds and Saved by Nature - OpenRoad with Doug McConnell
Onward to Forever: Planning for the Future of Open Space
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Onward to Forever: Planning for the Future of Open Space
Keeping Watersheds Healthy
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Keeping Watersheds Healthy
Conserving Coastal Grasslands
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Conserving Coastal Grasslands
Footprints on the Land
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Footprints on the Land
Coexisting with Wildlife
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Coexisting with Wildlife
The First Fifty Years: How Midpen Came to Be
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The First Fifty Years: How Midpen Came to Be
50 to Forever: Midpen's Mission to Preserve Nature & Open Space
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50 to Forever: Midpen's Mission to Preserve Nature & Open Space
Midpen and POST
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Midpen and POST
Grasshopper Loop Trail Tour
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Grasshopper Loop Trail Tour
Prescribed Fire Virtual Open House, July 18, 2022
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Prescribed Fire Virtual Open House, July 18, 2022

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @DaveKentLive
    @DaveKentLive 13 днів тому

    There's natural bat roosting locations in La Honda creek if you know where to look.

  • @panagiotiskostastheoktisto6709
    @panagiotiskostastheoktisto6709 Місяць тому

    My rights to go hunt for food is a right that cat is not a pet if it decides to challenge you there is a good chance your going to die for me it’s a threat if it sees me and takes a step to intervene towards me at that point I don’t care what you think it’s going to die and left there. They are doing a big harm to deer soon you will see the mistake your making by protecting them the end game is going to be the same they will die.

  • @panagiotiskostastheoktisto6709
    @panagiotiskostastheoktisto6709 Місяць тому

    Hard not to come face to face with them when we hunt the same thing seen many especially as hard as it has become to find a forked buck this days you must spend days in the forest go deeper in only to find that a male thinks it can kill a deer and leave for you like they do in other places that have wolves a lion knows if it looks in your eyes what its chance of victory is I have great respect when all I see is there tail going away from me and none for the one that steps towards me after I have made myself known.

  • @knuckgush
    @knuckgush 2 місяці тому

    I was a “Ranger Aide” for MROSD in 1976 - 1977, and we built the among the first trails and fencing for the district, with Eric Mart and Jim Boland, Chief Ranger and Supervisor respectivly. Quite a lot of stories about then, especially during the rainy seasons. I’m in Pennsylvania now.

  • @billlundeen4983
    @billlundeen4983 3 місяці тому

    Such a beautiful place! So happy to see so much land left open and preserved. Let’s keep on doing it!

  • @willsherman3527
    @willsherman3527 3 місяці тому

    I found it interesting that the other video didn't allow comments that I was looking at, but in any case it was talking about the elusive kangaroo rat. We saw one on our porch in Carmel by the Sea the other day :-)

  • @peterbedford2610
    @peterbedford2610 3 місяці тому

    This is great. Thanks

  • @tamzelic8145
    @tamzelic8145 5 місяців тому

    it’s so cute

  • @patrick8030
    @patrick8030 6 місяців тому

    Crazy - go through all that worthy and great effort to reshape the top of the mountain but then leave the vulgar box out of a very pathetic nostalgia

  • @patrick8030
    @patrick8030 6 місяців тому

    Maintaining that cold war box on the mountain is pathetic and disrespectful to all Native Americans. It's awful looking too.

  • @patrick8030
    @patrick8030 6 місяців тому

    Please don't call the Santa Clara Valley "silicon"

  • @taraschulz
    @taraschulz 8 місяців тому

    Impressive. Great job.

  • @Nicole_Snell
    @Nicole_Snell 9 місяців тому

    Thank you! Poison oak does not have thorns on their stems or vines right?

  • @matthewstorm5188
    @matthewstorm5188 9 місяців тому

    Mount Umunhum is NOT one of the four highest peaks in the Bay Area. Mount Diablo and Mount Hamilton are higher. But so is Rose Peak, Discovery Peak, and neighboring Loma Prieta. These alone make five peaks in the Bay Area that are higher than Mount Umunhum. But there are more peaks than these that are higher than Mount Umunhum.

  • @KT_571
    @KT_571 9 місяців тому

    OMG, the acting was hard to watch!😂😂

  • @JackSmith-po8bs
    @JackSmith-po8bs 10 місяців тому

    My family lived on the base in 1971/1972. My dad was the base medic. It was our favorite duty station. It was paradise.

  • @lindsayjoye9085
    @lindsayjoye9085 11 місяців тому

    Can't find the app in Apple's App store. Is it only for Android?

  • @JoeG-Mac
    @JoeG-Mac Рік тому

    Bring back Ranger Steve! This video was awesome!

  • @pappigee8521
    @pappigee8521 Рік тому

    Helmets? wow When my dad was stationed there twice.We as 8 yrs olds would ride the fire trail started by fire dept and helicopter pad we would ride are bikes non professional or Mountain bikes down to the middle base of the mountain still on USAF land by a mp outpost ....No helmet n zoom zoom zoom 😅

  • @AnonYmous-be9vw
    @AnonYmous-be9vw Рік тому

    Researching the possibility that burrowing owls use badger burrows in the Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington. I frequently see badger sized burrows scattered around areas where I can hear burrowing owls calling at night (which was a cool surprise). I've only ever seen one badger sauntering through a wheatfield in Ritzville... Their burrows are big and pretty distinctive as no other animal makes them here.

  • @willbill808
    @willbill808 Рік тому

    So you can’t be Native American or ex military and be a cyclist? 😂

  • @puzzlecan7142
    @puzzlecan7142 Рік тому

    nice

  • @javierramires2814
    @javierramires2814 Рік тому

    I really, really want to work for Midpen. I love the outdoors.

  • @photonjones5908
    @photonjones5908 Рік тому

    Grew up in Scotts Valley in the 70s, I was lucky enough to get to visit the radar station when it was running as part of a summer school class on aviation and aerospace in 1973, almost fifty years ago. We had great schools before prop 13! It was neat to see my hometown from the summit, after that two hour bus ride, with the Monterey Bay and the Santa Lucia range stretching far to the south, and it was amazing and scary to see what the air force was doing for us all up there as the cold war dragged on. It was a coming of age of sorts. I hope to get back up there when I'm in the area again. Great work to restore the mountaintop, btw, and thank you so much for explaining the meaning and origin of the name and the tribe that remain to share them.

  • @Jdksub
    @Jdksub Рік тому

    The “Russians” what a joke

  • @michellegottbrecht5418
    @michellegottbrecht5418 Рік тому

    Thomas Jefferson was your author. You need to see what he did at his house in VIRGINA.

  • @jeffwalther3935
    @jeffwalther3935 Рік тому

    Combat airspace interception and control REQUIRES maximizing range and (combat) time on station. With Mt. Um's 24/7/365-available, 2nd party, remote fuel managers for EACH of these fuel-hungry engines of all the fighters aloft, the telling razor-thin margins could be immeasurably better used, monitored and conserved - so much so it makes the interceptors viable at all; in the absence of later modern AWACS aerial-borne airspace combat theater radar and support. THIS development with the KC 135's for the Air Force and E-2/C-2 Hawkeye for the Navy replaced Mt. Um's radar base site's raison d'etra and the rest is history. Good tour of duty in those days, I'd wager.

  • @witnesstoitall1144
    @witnesstoitall1144 Рік тому

    Look like its harming the real tree.they should've ended its unnatural life.

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa Рік тому

      No, the albino branch is PART of the real tree! It isn't some parasite.

  • @emmagrace696
    @emmagrace696 Рік тому

    great video! happy to see the progress being made on our parks

  • @AnwarAliAhmad
    @AnwarAliAhmad Рік тому

    Stay safe everyone ❤

  • @edrooks
    @edrooks Рік тому

    Thank you! Our ecological future depends on such wonderful and important work.

  • @meravvon
    @meravvon Рік тому

    such a great presentation! so much info!

  • @lionelzamora4536
    @lionelzamora4536 Рік тому

    Downtown San Jose Northern California in the house

  • @Greg_call
    @Greg_call 2 роки тому

    ... also, I loved the work the Airmen did each Christmas to place a star on the radar tower. Could see this from my bedroom every Christmas until 1979. Additionally, the radar always added a noise to my AM radio every 7 seconds.... or 15 secs.

  • @RobertBanksIV
    @RobertBanksIV 2 роки тому

    family lived there around 1963-64! What a beautiful place.

  • @jihyunso9663
    @jihyunso9663 2 роки тому

    Where are best ridge and trail to see wildflowers in bay area?

  • @MikeMansoursweet
    @MikeMansoursweet 2 роки тому

    Its growing all over the side of the highways all of a sudden!

  • @hollowright
    @hollowright 2 роки тому

    Long live Bay Area Backroads!

  • @lorettanericcio-bohlman567
    @lorettanericcio-bohlman567 2 роки тому

    Thank you! Lovely ranger

  • @crisscrosskao
    @crisscrosskao 2 роки тому

    This is such a well-produced video. Thank you for walking retroactively through the project. I use this trail every day to get to work, and even chatted with another cyclist this morning. The cyclist bikes from Sunnyvale everyday and was telling me how this trail has been such a huge improvement over how he used to have to bike down University Ave with all of the speeding cars.

  • @patriciabeckeryoga
    @patriciabeckeryoga 2 роки тому

    Love what you are doing! thank you so much for this eco tour. 💙🌍💚

  • @patriciabeckeryoga
    @patriciabeckeryoga 2 роки тому

    Thank goodness for Midpen Open Space for you. I look to the west into the beautiful hills that you help preserve and am deeply grateful 💙🌍💚