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How Activists Stopped Developers From Filling in the Bay

In the early 1960s, cities around the San Francisco Bay Area proposed plans to fill in the bay waters and expand. At the time, there was no regional agency looking at what all those projects together would do to the bay as whole. That's where three Berkeley women stepped in to save the bay.

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EXHIBIT: Voices For the Environment: A Century of Bay Area Activism

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