Save The Bay Blog

Check out this week’s Weekly Roundup for breaking news affecting San Francisco Bay. CNN 4/22/13 7 stunning U.S. spots for wildlife Naturalist Beth Pratt has been exploring and celebrating wildlife since she was a child, whether discovering the great whales of Cape Cod with her parents or creating a special luxury habitat for her backyard [...]

“So are we going into the marsh?” A question I receive every so often when a volunteer looks out into the Bay and imagines us trudging around in knee high mud doing restoration work. At Save The Bay, our restoration work actually focuses on the ecotone. Eco-what? For many this is not a word they [...]

In this week’s roundup, Save The Bay’s founder Sylvia McLaughlin is honored with a renaming of Eastshore State Park. Monday was a big day for fighting plastic pollution in the Bay, as San Francisco’s plastic ban now applies to all local retailers. David Lewis was quoted in the Chronicle: “San Francisco is showing that it [...]

Cargill and its Arizona-based luxury housing developer DMB Associates withdrew their controversial bay fill plan in Redwood City back in May. They announced they would return with a revised development after working to avoid key federal environmental rules like the Clean Water Act from applying in any way to salt ponds in San Francisco Bay. If [...]

When I came to Save The Bay in 2007, I spent some time getting up to speed on SF Bay history. I was born in San Francisco in 1965, and graduated from San Francisco’s Hastings Law School about 30 years later. Yet it was news to me that back in the 1960s, a salt company [...]