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BOLINAS: A discussion about eucalyptus trees that fell into the lagoon in recent years is prompting the Bolinas Lagoon Advisory Council to question what power it has to influence the county’s Open Space District, which is more autonomous than it once was.   David Briggs

Locals aired frustrations during a Bolinas Lagoon Advisory Council meeting last Friday over two unsightly eucalyptus trees that have fallen in recent years on the western edge of the lagoon. Though scientists brought in from the county said the trees are not harming the ecosystem, and the prospects for the removal of the two fallen trees, which would cost $40,000, remain dim, some council members worried about the potential impacts—environmental and aesthetic—were more to fall…