Archive for August, 2006

Group hopes $400,000 it raised will preserve Coyote Point Museum

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Group hopes $400,000 it raised will preserve Coyote Point Museum
Proponents of a climate center there showing less interest

- Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer, Wednesday, August 23, 2006

A community group that wants to preserve San Mateo’s Coyote Point Museum has raised more than $400,000, and museum officials said Tuesday that a rival proposal to scrap the aging attraction to make way for a global warming study center will most likely be rejected after receiving bad reviews from the public.

Also on Tuesday, the 11th Hour Project, the Silicon Valley-based environmental group that proposed scrapping Coyote Point Museum,

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Global warming group eyes museum

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

SAN MATEO
Global warming group eyes museum
- Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer, Thursday, August 3, 2006

Map - Coyote Point Museum

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Fans of the popular-but-struggling Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo are worried about the future of the 52-year-old wildlife learning center, but the nonprofit’s directors on Wednesday said the Peninsula mainstay would stay open because two groups have expressed interest in helping.

But Rob Thomas, president of the center’s board of trustees, wouldn’t directly address reports that a group with ties to former Vice President Al Gore — the Silicon Valley-based 11th Hour Project — is interested in scrapping the center and rebuilding it as a global-warming education hub.

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COYOTE POINT MUSEUM PLANS WILDLIFE CENTER

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

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COYOTE POINT MUSEUM PLANS WILDLIFE CENTER

Source: ANN MURAKAMI, Mercury News Staff Writer
By Spring 1991, people will be able to walk on the wild side and rub elbows with Bay Area animals in a new wildlife center at the Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo. Construction is expected to begin later this month for the three-acre center, which will feature every creature native to the area, from river otters to banana slugs. The center, in the Coyote Point Recreation Area, will include large rock formations with pockets of exhibits housing small mammals. The entire outcrop area will be

Published on October 4, 1989, Page 10, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

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