Environment
San Francisco Bay Trail anniversary gets national attention
November 8, 2019
Planning Magazine's article on the San Francisco Bay Trail is featured in the November issue.
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Estuary Report Provides Report Card on Bay and Delta Health
October 21, 2019
Noah Berger
State of the Estuary conference Monday, in Oakland.
Resiliency is the key issue highlighted in the State of the Estuary Report issued Monday by the San Francisco Estuary Partnership.
This is the first report on the health of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary since 2015. It’s being issued as the two-day, 14th biennial State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference gets underway at the Scottish Rite Center in Oakland. The report can be found at www.sfestuary.org/our-estuary/soter. A video on the report is here. Read More
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Bay Trail contest winner gets "lost in the actual beauty of the Bay”
October 11, 2019
Instagram user and "Share Your 30” contest winner Maxwell Corleone with his son at the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center.
Maxwell Corleone of Hayward first explored the San Francisco Bay Trail through a middle school science club biking from the San Leandro Marina to the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center without ever needing to go on a street. Read More
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San Francisco Estuary Partnership works to improve Bay's water quality
September 24, 2019
Stormwater mitigation work on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley. Josh Bradt.
A landmark project for the Bay Area aimed at reducing the amount of polluted water draining into San Francisco Bay broke ground Monday in Berkeley. Read More
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San Francisco Estuary Partnership wins award for Bay-Delta stewardship
September 18, 2019
(L-R) Kimberly Riley, The Bay Foundation; Vicki Gambale, The Bay Foundation; Preston Smith, Office of Environmental Health Services, Virginia Department of Health; Adrien Baudrimont, San Francisco Estuary Partnership; Natasha Dunn, San Francisco Estuary Partnership. Photo by Lynda Richardson, Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries.
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership’s Clean Vessel Act Program received an Outstanding Service Award from the States Organization for Boating Access (SOBA) at the national SOBA meeting last week in Virginia. Read More
Environment
Senate designates September 14-21, 2019 as National Estuaries Week
September 13, 2019
Mark Prado
San Rafael Bay.
Last month, the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution designating September 14-21, 2019 as the seventh annual National Estuaries Week. Read More
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New bill would help San Francisco Estuary Partnership’s resiliency efforts
July 29, 2019
By Kowitz via Creative Commons.
The Protect and Restore America’s Estuaries Act, a bipartisan bill which would reauthorize the National Estuary Program (NEP), was introduced last week by U.S. Representative Tom Malinowski (D-NJ). Read More
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MTC and partners nab federal environmental planning award for Highway 37
July 11, 2019
Mark Prado
MTC and its partners received a 2019 Environmental Excellence Award from the Federal Highway Administration for work on their State Route 37 Resilient Corridor Program. Read More
Environment
Little oyster to combat sea-level rise
June 28, 2019
Olympia oysters. Photo by Matthew Gray, Oregon State University.
The Giant Marsh Living Shoreline project along the western edge of Contra Costa County has gotten underway with the goal of creating a healthy marine environment for native oysters, which will improve aquatic quality and help gird against sea-level rise. Read More
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San Francisco Bay Trail featured by Bay Nature!
June 27, 2019
Noah Berger
Bay Trail in Albany.
The San Francisco Bay Trail is featured in the summer edition of Bay Nature and provides an overview of the pathway, while highlighting certain segments. Read More