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yerba buena

yerba buena (yĕrˈbə bwāˈnə), trailing evergreen perennial (Micromeria chamissonis) of the family Labiatae (mint family). It is native to W North America and especially common to woodland areas along the Pacific coast. Its aromatic leaves were gathered by the Native Americans of California for use in a medicinal tea. Yerba buena is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Lamiales, family Labiatae.

Yerba Buena Island

Yerba Buena Island, 300 acres (121 hectares), W Calif., in San Francisco Bay. It is the midpoint of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, which crosses the island through a tunnel. There are coast guard facilities on the island. Neighboring Treasure Island, 400 acres (162 hectares), connected to Yerba Buena by a causeway, was constructed with fill for the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939–40) and was then (1942–97) a U.S. naval air station.

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A Twitter account identifying as Identity Evropa posted pictures of the sign hung above the I80 tunnel on Yerba Buena Island.

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Concurrent with installation of the tower finials and crane removal, Caltrans positioned and connected the two other major spans of the new east side, the Skyway and the Yerba Buena Island Transition Structure, to the SAS signature span.

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Treasure Island was created from landfill in 1937 and is connected to Yerba Buena Island by a narrow isthmus.

California's Treasure Island draws concerns from The Bay Citizen

The new island was created from fill placed to the north of the existing Yerba Buena Island, a steep rocky landmark in the middle of San Francisco Bay.

Portable gas suppliers used for treasure island customers

These include parts of Bayview Hill, Twin Peaks, the Brotherhood Way native woodlands, Hunter's Point, and Yerba Buena Island.

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We selected 6 US communities that reported relatively few, if any, cases of influenza and no more than 1 influenza-related death while NPIs were enforced during the second wave of the 1918 pandemic: San Francisco Naval Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, California; Gunnison, Colorado; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Saranac Lake, New York; and Fletcher, Vermont (Table).

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All this before reaching Yerba Buena Island. There it absorbed the world's largest tunnel through old Goat Island before continuing as a less-lovely cantilever span and ending, anti-climactically, in a long, ho-hum tress bridge across the Oakland mud fiats.

The Bay Bridge

(Attention Ketchikan and Gravina Island.) Truth be told, islands often figure prominently in bridge building: Lake Washington Floating Bridge and Mercer Island; Golden Gate Bridge and Yerba Buena Island, to name two that are near to us.

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Continue east along the Embarcadero and follow the signs to the Bay Bridge and I-80 east, which tunnels through Yerba Buena Island to ...

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The structure consisted of two back-to-back suspension spans, a tunnel on Yerba Buena Island, a cantilevered truss span, and several through and deck truss spans.

Bridging the bay: the San Francisco-Oakland east span, a 1930s landmark, is being replaced by a seismically advanced structure designed to last for 150 years

The 30-minute trip chugs you past Yerba Buena Island, the Oakland shipyards, and along the estuary (some trips include a stop in Alameda).

Last days for the Bay ferries?

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