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Portola Valley: Eight households win habitat award

Original post made on Jan 12, 2016

On the Portola Valley property of Geoff Nuttall and Livia Sohn, milkweed grows and Monarch butterfly larvae feed where once was a lawn, a swimming pool, a garage, a driveway and a cottage. Eight households, including this one, won Backyard Habitat awards for 2015.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, January 11, 2016, 10:18 AM

Comments (4)

Posted by Nancy Reyering
a resident of Woodside: Mountain Home Road
on Jan 12, 2016 at 3:50 pm

Big congratulations to the award winners, and to Portola Valley's wonderful Conservation Committee. The article doesn't mention that this program in PV is an offshoot of Woodside's Backyard Habitat Program, and the result of warm collaboration between the respective parties. Woodside's BYHP was the brainchild of council member Peter Mason's wife Virginia Dare, a longtime active member of Woodside's Open Space Committee. Fellow committee members Julie White and myself helped bring the program to fruition, and Woodside now has over 50 award winners.


Posted by dear editor
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Jan 12, 2016 at 7:19 pm

why are you preventing negative comments regarding Nancy's comment?

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Posted by Tom Johnson
a resident of Woodside: other
on Jan 13, 2016 at 7:12 am

Nancy,
Thanks for letting folks know where it started---in Woodside.
Congratulations to all the award winners,in PV


Posted by Danna
a resident of Portola Valley: Central Portola Valley
on Jan 17, 2016 at 5:59 pm

I was in the audience the night of the awards and it was thrilling so have so many recipients. I hope more people will apply for the award. It is a beautiful thing...the effort and the award itself.


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