WESTERN SNOWY PLOVER AND CALIFORNIA LEAST TERN MONITORING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY ANNUAL REPORT 2025 ATTACHMENT C Productivity Estimates

Introduction

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Recovery Plan for the western snowy plover lists 1.0 chicks fledged per male as a key recovery metric that each recovery unit (RU) must maintain for five years prior to delisting (USFWS 2007).

WESTERN SNOWY PLOVER AND CALIFORNIA LEAST TERN MONITORING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY ANNUAL REPORT 2025 ATTACHMENT B Motus Tagging Project Final Report

Habitat Enhancement, Community Engagement, and Use of Motus to Support Western Snowy Plover and California Least Tern Recovery at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve, Hayward, California

Final Report

Introduction

Restoration of 275 Acres of Tidal Marsh in San Francisco Bay to Launch with Google Support

The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project is set to begin constructing 275 acres of tidal marsh habitat restoration, sea-level rise adaptation, public access, and carbon sequestration in a former salt pond adjacent to the City of Mountain View’s Shoreline Regional Park. The construction and monitoring are made possible with support from Google, which has called Mountain View home for over 25 years, as well as from other public grant programs.

Celebrate Earth Month at the Don Edwards Refuge with activities for the whole family!

Event flier
Event flier

You can celebrate our Earth with the Don Edwards Refuge at this special event offering tours, arts & crafts, and nature activities!

The event hosted by the Refuge friends group, the San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society, is an open house - feel free to come and stay as you'd like!

Scheduled programs that day:

Tidal Marshes Reborn: Latest $20 Million Salt Pond Restoration Project Restores Habitat, Protects Shoreline, and Opens Public Access

The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project partners, including the California State Coastal Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Ducks Unlimited, achieved another major milestone for tidal marsh restoration this month along the shores of this South Bay community, breaching levees of 435-acre Mountain View Pond A2W in the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge to San Francisco Bay.

Earth Month Habitat Restoration at Eden Landing (Hayward)

Save The Bay volunteers at work. Credit: Save The Bay
Save The Bay volunteers at work. Credit: Save The Bay

Happy Earth Month! You can join Save The Bay at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to help restore former industrial salt ponds into healthy salt marsh habitat! This vision includes turning vulnerable fields of invasive mustard and thistle into resilient shoreline full of natives like California Poppy, Sticky Monkeyflower and Marsh Gumplant. They will be pulling the invasive species crowding their recently planted native species, and will potentially be spreading mulch around native plants as well.

King Tides in Alviso

Alviso tidal marsh. Credit: Hope Presley
Alviso tidal marsh. Credit: Hope Presley

You can come out to the Don Edwards Refuge in Alviso to observe and record high King Tides!

The King Tides event is being held concurrently in two different locations on the Refuge: Alviso and Ravenswood (Menlo Park). The same content will be covered. Visit the Refuge Eventbrite page if you want to attend the Ravenswood event instead.