My love for West Marin runs deep. I grew up hiking Mount Tamalpais, exploring Point Reyes, and peering into the fragile tidepools of Duxbury Reef. Conservation is in my blood; my mother led hikes for the Marin Sierra Club from the 1960s well into the 1990s, teaching me early on that protecting nature requires reverence and community trust.
Decades later, as executive director of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, I strived to honor…