Save The Bay Blog

Wetland Habitat means more and healthier fish! A new report from our partners at Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) provides yet another strong argument in favor of restoring our shorelines and wetland habitat. More Habitat Means More Fish, the most recent in a series of reports on the fragile state of our nation’s wetlands and marine [...]

For most of you, this week’s to do list includes buying chocolate, flowers, and cards for the mothers in your life.  After all, mothers deserve a special day of recognition for everything they do for us.  But what about Mother Nature? Mother Nature provides a myriad of incredible benefits that we all enjoy and usually [...]

Save The Bay was thrilled last week to join the Redwood City community in a celebration of an important milestone in the nearly-completed restoration of Bair Island. Last Monday morning, the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge celebrated the opening of a new pedestrian bridge, and the first segment of trails accessible to [...]

Click here to view the interactive map which accompanies this post. First there were marshes; then there were dumps. The dumps were eventually turned into regulated landfills, and the landfills into shoreline parks. After the Gold Rush, a full one-third of the San Francisco Bay was diked off or filled in for development. Over three [...]

The State of California is providing global leadership on adapting to sea level rise from climate change. But a state strategy update is in the works, and it is not yet clear that it is going to be a step forward. In 2009, under Gov. Schwarzenegger, California released a groundbreaking Climate Adaptation Strategy (CAS). With the sea [...]