Lucy Kortum, Sonoma County Environmental Activist, Passes Away

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Longtime Sonoma County environmental activist and preservationist Lucy Kortum is dead at the age of 94. Kortum, the wife of the late Bill Kortum, died Wednesday. The couple was behind several local historic preservation efforts. They included stopping PG&E from building a nuclear power plant on Bodega Head, and protecting public access to ten miles of land on the north Sonoma Coast. A large subdivision was proposed for that land in the early 1960’s. The Kortum’s were also behind the creation of the California Coastal Commission and the landmark California Coastal Act in the 1970’s.