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High-school surfer urges Rancho Palos Verdes to back kelp restoration
Summary
A Chadwick School senior urged the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council to explore partnerships, set modest pilot funding and support grant applications to restore local kelp forests, warning that kelp off the peninsula has declined sharply and that hands-on restoration is needed to reverse urchin "barrens."
Michael Schnabel, a senior at Chadwick School, told the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council that kelp forests off the peninsula have declined ‘‘by more than 80% in the last century’’ and urged the council to act to protect and restore them.
Schnabel asked the council to direct staff to explore partnerships with organizations already working locally—he cited the Bay Foundation—set aside modest pilot funding in a future budget for kelp…
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