South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
The central online connection to the agencies working on the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, the largest tidal wetland restoration project on the West Coast.
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A Happy Return for Bird’s Beak
April 01, 2011 by Erica Reder
It’s always nice to see plants and wildlife return to a restored site. But it’s especially nice when a plant that’s both rare and finicky shows up in a spot miles away from the nearest remaining population. That’s what happened when Point Reyes bird’s beak appeared at LaRiviere Marsh near Newark.
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Counting Gulls, with Protective Gear
July 01, 2009 by Aleta George
Clad in bike helmets and ratty clothes, staff and volunteers with the San Francisco Bird Observatory brave the South Bay’s raucous seagull nesting colonies, where the explosion of breeding gulls threatens to push aside less aggressive species.
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Raising Bair Island
October 01, 2008 by Carolyn J. Strange
Redwood City’s Bair Island is the domino that that didn’t fall to development, and now an unusual team of activists, business leaders, and government officials is leading the way toward restoration.
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Napa-Sonoma Marshes
July 01, 2007 by John Hart
We are somewhere west of the Napa River, nosing in a small boat along a slough between hollow islands known …
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Decontaminating Navy Land
January 01, 2005 by Christine Sculati
Along the Mountain View shoreline in the South Bay, activists are pressuring the U.S. Navy to fully decontaminate bayside property …
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Invitation to a Restoration
October 01, 2004 by Susan Pultz Williams
Planners designing a strategy for one of the biggest wetlands recovery projects ever undertaken in this country—the South Bay salt …
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Refuge Volunteer: Eileen McLaughlin
October 01, 2004 by Kathleen M. Wong
The baylands’ swampy smells and power lines are distasteful to many. But to Eileen McLaughlin, Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge …
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Shrimper: Tom Laine
October 01, 2004 by Kathleen M. Wong
Tom Laine knew the salt ponds long before they were making salt. “I was born here in 1937, and I’ve …
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Man in the Mud
October 01, 2004 by Lisa Owens-Viani
Since immigrating to the United States from Norway in the 1950s, Hallvard Haugnes spent almost every day of his life …
