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Article: San Bruno Mountain conservancy taking new approach
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 26, 2009
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BRISBANE
Looking out across an empty, rolling grassland pressed up against
the Northeast Ridge of San Bruno Mountain, Ken McIntire sees hiking
trails in place of a chain-link fence that reminds people that this
site is private property. He also sees dollar signs.
"We're all broke right now, but we have to dream, you know?" said
McIntire, executive director of the newly-renamed San Bruno Mountain
Watch Conservancy.
McIntire is doing a lot of dreaming these days. He plans to
transform the conservancy into a trust with enough funding to
purchase at least five vacant properties in and around Brisbane,