California Coast Gets Intrepid Internet Watchdog
Detailed Aerial Photos by Husband-Wife Team Called Boon for Environmental Activism

California's 1,100-mile coast has a new watchdog: a retired tech mogul with a helicopter and a digital camera who is posting detailed photos on the Internet of every inch of the oceanfront, from the redwood- studded cliffs of the north to the rows of mansions crowding the south.

Ken Adelman's two-week-old Internet site, the California Coastal Records Project, attracts thousands of viewers daily and is being called a big technological advance for environmental activism.

"You can click and see bulldozers on the beach," said Sierra Club coastal director Mark Massara. "You can see funky homemade seawalls and coastal resource degradation."
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California Coastal Records Project

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