The voting closes on December 7 for the San Francisco Bay Area’s 2009 Cox Conserves Hero award. There are 5 finalists and the winner will get a $5,000 prize for their project. All of the finalist are worthy, but I’ve got to put in a plug for Barbara Newcombe, a driving force behind the Cleveland Cascade restoration project in Oakland. The project website speaks for itself and this effort is perhaps an uber-model for what Oakland Urban Paths hopes to foster in Oakland.

And the winner is….
Lennie Roberts from Committee for Green Foothills. Congrats to all and keep up the great work Friends of Cleveland Cascade!