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Wildlife conservation groups set their sights on ending lethal means of controlling predators by federal agency
Mayor sees tactic as key to ending traffic fatalities By Michael Cabanatuan and Steve Rubenstein
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Francis Cornett says sometimes lethal control is necessary to protect his flocks of sheep from predators.
Targeting trappers By Peter Fimrite Federal trapper Chris Brennan is the go-to guy in Mendocino County when sheep or cattle are being threatened by predators, which, it is generally acknowledged, don’t stand much of a chance when he is on the case. He is an excellent tracker, an expert with snares and other traps and a pretty good shot. He has the added benefit, say wildlife advocates and quite a few neighbors, of being a merciless killer. Brennan, a 55-year-old trapper for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services, has killed coyotes, mountain lions, bears, skunks, raccoons, bobcats and, by his own estimate, 400 Trappers continues on A10
San Francisco’s streets, already home to cameras that spit out tickets to drivers who run red lights and park in Muni zones, will also be dotted with devices to catch speeders, if city leaders have their way. The idea of employing radar beams and cameras to snag speeding motorists may seem to some like a further intrusion of technology into everyday life or an example of an expanding police state — while still others don’t have a problem with “careful” speeding. But traffic safety, pedestrian and bicycling advocates say it’s the most effective way to slow cars and trucks, change a city’s traffic culture and make the streets safer for everyone. As San Francisco works on its Vision Zero
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Backyard pools lose their splash during drought By Kurtis Alexander
Cornett primarily uses dogs, including Great Pyrenees, to guard his flocks. He has 17 dogs to protect 2,300 sheep in the Tomales area.
Once a pillar of suburban comfort, the backyard swimming pool is now the prey of many California communities trying to save water. Drought policies passed by cities and utilities across the Bay Area and beyond are increasingly targeting the liquid luxury by limiting how often pools can be filled and by how much — and sometimes barring fill-ups entirely. Now, as a fourth dry year looms, some pool owners are finding it easier to throw in the towel rather than play by the rules, and they’re simply doing away with the fixture. “We’re going to have restrictions and ration-
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Postmodern dance outsider finds place in pantheon By Rachel Howard
men of lap-swimming and hula hoops, she takes a seat overlookFifteen years ago, choreograing the famous “dance deck” at pher Anna Halprin opened the her Marin County home, where door to her mountainside home in the ’50s and ’60s she essentialin Kentfield, buck naked. “Just a ly invented postmodern dance. moment!” she said “Martha Graham impishly to a startled used to say it takes 10 reporter, and slipped on years to make a dancer,” a kimono. Halprin says and then This time around, on Anna Halprin giggles. “I said, ‘No, I a recent weekday, the think it takes more like 94-year-old Halprin is fully 10 seconds.’ ” dressed in a turquoise tunic and Of course, she quickly qualsilver necklace, but her uninhib- ifies, a lot happens in that 10 ited way of being is still obvious. seconds, a transformation of Relaxed from a morning regiHalprin continues on A8
Choreographer Anna Halprin stops along Balmy Street this month to look at the murals during a re-enactment of her “Blank Placard Dance” march through the Mission District.
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