Autumn on the Wetlands
December 16th, 2011
A lot is going on in the world of wetlands that surround San Francisco Bay during fall. In this program series, we hear from key Joint Venture partners – Beth Huning, Marc Holmes, and Diane Ross-Leach – on the following topics:
Funding Restoration Efforts (Marc Holmes-Part 2): Marc Holmes gives an update on the current state of funding for restoration efforts.
SFBJV’s 15-Year Anniversary: Diane Ross-Leach, San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Management Board Chair, talks about the Joint Venture’s accomplishments during its first 15 years.
Scale of Wetlands Restoration (Marc Holmes-Part 1): Marc Holmes is the director of The Bay Institute’s Restoration Program as well as a member of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture (SFBJV) Management Board. Marc has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of efforts to restore wetlands around the San Francisco Bay. On this report, he talks about how the scale of restoration has changed since the inception of the SFBJV.
Fall Birding with Beth Huning: Beth Huning, Coordinator of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture and an avid birder herself, provides suggestions for places to catch the fall migration of a variety of birds (links to bird watching hotspots are below!)
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Bird Watching: For those of you following Beth’s Bay Area hotspots for bird watching during fall migration, here are some links to the places she mentions where you can find more information and directions to these locations!
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South Bay:
- Eden Landing
- Hayward Interpretive Center
- Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge
- Dumbarton Bridge (pond SF2)
North Bay:
A lot is going on in the world of wetlands that surround San Francisco Bay. In this August program series, we hear from three key Joint Venture partners about local birding hotspots, current wetlands restoration projects and the release of the first regional State of the Birds Report.
San Francisco Bay is said to be the most studied estuary in the world but most of that effort has been focused on the shoreline and tidal wetland areas. On this report, Marilyn Latta, Project Manager with the California State Coastal Conservancy, tells us about the newly released “San Francisco Bay Subtidal Habitat Goals Report.” It focuses on restoration needs and opportunities for the subtidal habitats in the bay which includes all of the submerged area beneath the water’s surface: mud, shell, sand, rocks, artificial structures, shellfish beds, over 3,700 acres of eelgrass beds, macroalgal beds, and the water column itself.
An update from Barth Campbell, President of Campbell Grading, the landscape company that is rechannelizing Redwood Creek at Muir Beach which is a primary habitat for the Coho Salmon and Red-Legged frog.
