March 20: Bring Your Own Bag Day

March 21 - A Celebration of the Life of Silvia Lange

April 23-26: Point Reyes Birding Festival

Legacy of the Land - A history of MCL

BRING YOUR OWN BAG DAY, Third Saturday of each month until Earth Day:

Californians use 19 BILLION single-use bags annually.  These eventually end up in our landfills, streets and oceans.
The County of Marin, Teens Turning Green, EcoMoms Alliance and local grocers are working together with other organizations on crafting an ordinance that will reduce Marin’s contribution of single-use bags to the waste stream.
ONLY 10 — 15% OF PAPER BAGS AND 1 — 3% OF PLASTIC BAGS ARE RECYCLED!
Show your support for the environment— bring your own bag. And help our local economy by shopping community merchants with your own bag on the 3rd Saturday of each month: Mar. 20 and Apr. 17.  See byobagmarin for more details!

A Celebration of the Life of Silvia Lange, Sunday, March 21

The Celebration of the Life of Sivia Lange will take place on Sunday, March 21, at Angel Island.  People from Marin take the 10 AM ferry from Tiburon, and people from San Francisco take the 10:35 ferry. The event will start just after 11 to allow time for the San Francisco ferry to arrive.  We will probably be in the picnic area behind the Visitor's Center. There will be refreshments around 12 noon and a hike about 1PM.  For those who don't want to hike, we hope to have videos/DVDs of Silvia to play at the Visitor's Center.

Please forward this to anyone you know who would want to know about this.  Silvia had many people in her life.

We are collecting poems and songs by Silvia, poems and songs written for Silvia, and photos (even recipes if anyone has her Great Balls of Fire recipe) for a book we will put together. Please send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it If you would like to speak, sing or read something at the Celebration of Silvia, please let us know. We would love to have someone with singing experience to lead the singing, and still need volunteers to bring food as well as a videographer who can make a video for the members of her family who cannot attend. If that's something you can do, please let us know. --Wendy and Bill Dreskin This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tribute to Silvia Lange

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Point Reyes Birding and Nature Festival, April 23 through 26

Registration is now open for the very first Point Reyes Birding and Nature Festival! The weekend of April 23 through 26 will be packed with exciting birding and natural history outings, led by well-known area naturalists, including Rich Stallcup, Jules Evens, David Wimpfheimer, Keith Hansen, Allen Fish and more.  There will be birding-by-ear classes, two evening programs, informative indoor presentations, a silent auction and a vendor display to round out the festivities.

For more information and online registration, visit pointreyesbirdingfestival.org.

Legacy of the Land - A History of the Marin Conservation League:

One of the highlights of MCL's 75th Anniversary project will be the release in 2010 of our organization's history. Written by well-known local writer Barry Spitz (Mill Valley, The Dipsea), Legacy of the Land will take the reader from 1934 and the extraordinary story of the four founders of the League through the creation of the vast areas of parks and open space we know and love so well, to the League's present day's environmental advocacy work.