Maya Akkaraju

Maya Akkaraju recently graduated with a BS from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied molecular environmental biology and worked as a reporter and deputy editor for The Daily Californian. Currently, she’s an aquatics and hydrology intern with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and she brought her hydro know-how to her reporting on the wetland restoration of Patterson Ranch in the East Bay.

At Coyote Hills, 300 Acres of Farmland are Transforming

March 28, 2024 • by Maya Akkaraju

More than 100 different species of birds—from American bitterns to marsh wrens—have visited the native salt grass and sprawling, stubby pickleweed in the newly constructed seasonal wetland.