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Northern California Coast as seen from Muir Beach Overlook. The California Coastal Commission was established in 1972 by voter initiative via Proposition 20. [8] This was partially in response to the controversy surrounding the development of Sea Ranch, a planned coastal community in Sonoma County.
The California Coastal Records Project, founded in 2002, [1] documents the California coastline with aerial photos taken from a helicopter flying parallel to the shore. Their webpage provides access to these images. One photo was taken every 500 feet. [2] [3] Each photo showed a few hundred yards of the coastline, with frames overlapping. [4]
California Fish and Game also collaborated with the indigenous Native American Tribes to ensure their proper fishing rights. The Yurok tribe has collaborated with them as recently as 2011. [ 2 ] The department also helped figure out the official count of fish killed (which was around 30,000) [ 3 ] in the 2002 Fish Kill on the Klamath River .
A person walks along landslide damage amid an ongoing land movement crisis in the area which forced power shutoffs to homes, on Sept. 3, 2024, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Circa 1975, when the city of Los Angeles handed over management of the “lifeguards, maintenance, parking and concessions” at their beaches to the county, the department oversaw 73 mi (117 km) of the 76.5 mi (123.1 km) of beaches in the county, including 38 mi (61 km) miles of “improved beaches.” [8]
The number of fish on the government's overfishing list sunk to a new low last year in a sign of healthy U.S. fisheries, federal officials said. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
The deep landslides beneath the multimillion-dollar homes in Rancho Palos Verdes moved at an almost glacial pace, until they didn’t. This affluent coastal city in Southern California, around 30 ...
Destructive fishing practices are fishing practices which easily result in irreversible damage to habitats and the sustainability of the fishery ecosystems.Such damages can be caused by direct physical destruction of the underwater landform and vegetation, overfishing (especially of keystone species), indiscriminate killing/maiming of aquatic life, disruption of vital reproductive cycles, and ...