UC Merced's New Wetlands Preserve
20 July 2000 - 9:30am
Amid concern about the environmental impacts of a new UC Merced campus, 60,000 acrese around the campus will be purchased as a wetlands preserve.
Aileen Adams, chairman of the governor's UC Merced implementation team, and charged with expediting the Valley's first University of California campus reported that the project is Governor Davis' top priority. Adams says that buying 60,000 acres -- twice the size of the city of San Francisco -- as a wetlands preserve should help resolve environmentalists' fears.
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The Fresno Bee, July 20, 2000
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