Learn about Mountain View wetlands and get some pleasant exercise at a summer solstice evening bike tour.
Part guided tour by bike, part summer solstice celebration, and full-on fun festivities! Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition and Friends of Stevens Creek Trail are partnering for an unforgettable community event. Come together to ride, celebrate nature, hear bikes playing your favorite music from speakers, and experience the Stevens Creek Trail like never before.
Dr. Nathan Van Schmidt, Director of Waterbird Science at the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, will give a virtual presentation on the Restoration Project's dilemma of needing to offer habitat for species that have accidentally ended up in San Francisco Bay after their habitat elsewhere was degraded. The event is hosted by the Golden Gate Bird Alliance.
More info and access here.
The presentation description:
Join the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Refuge for a leisurely, morning stroll to view shorebirds that frequent the Pond SF2! This will be an interpretive guided tour to learn about resident bird species, migratory birds and the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project. Many migratory waterfowl travel through the Bay Area along what is known as the Pacific Flyway migratory path.
Join San Jose State University Professor Dr. Costanza Rampini for a discussion on whose values and voices are prioritized in climate change solutions. Dr. Rampini, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, will inquire into who will benefit, who will lose, and who will be left out as different countries, regions, cities, and communities try to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and implement strategies to cope with the impacts of climate change.
You can join the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) and the Restoration Project to help improve nesting habitat for threatened western snowy plovers and endangered California least terns! Staff and volunteers will spread oyster shells donated from area restaurants on a dry pond bottom.
This event is open to all ages, but please note that there are no restroom facilities at the site. Volunteers will have to drive on a graded dirt road for a short distance. Due to access restrictions, all volunteers will need to stay for the duration of the event.
Join a Refuge biologist for a leisurely morning stroll to view shorebirds that frequent the Pond SF2! This will be an interpretive guided tour to learn about resident bird species, migratory birds and the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project. Many migratory waterfowl are traveling through the Bay Area from October through January along what is known as the Pacific Flyway migratory path. This free event is open to all, but registration is required. Register here.
Interested in a volunteer opportunity you can do for school, work, or just for fun, that you can do on your own or with your household? Calling middle and high school students and scout groups! Come to the Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge and take photos to record the high tides called King Tides. The Refuge has a few spots around Alviso to view the year's highest tides. Participants will snap photos and submit them to the Refuge's Friends organization, the San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society, at [email protected].
You can join ecologists to help restore habitat for birds and other wildlife at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Union City! Volunteers at the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) event will get to tour an active restoration site that is not normally accessible to the public, learn about restoration goals and techniques, view wildlife, and improve the health of San Francisco Bay.
Come join Save The Bay at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to help restore former industrial salt ponds into healthy salt marsh habitat! They will be pulling invasive plants using hand picks and gloves to give the native marsh plants put in over the winter a chance to establish themselves.
See here for registration and more information.
Come join Save The Bay at Ravenswood and help protect marshes from invasive plants! Invasive species degrade habitat by crowding out the California native species that our landscapes and wildlife have adapted to live with. Save The Bay will be pulling invasive plant species to make way for the native plants that staff and volunteers put in the ground. This will transform the degraded habitat around the pond the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project recently breached into healthy salt marsh habitat, giving wildlife good homes and our communities nature-based sea level rise protection!
Come join Save The Bay at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to help restore former industrial salt ponds into healthy salt marsh habitat!
Native plants are the backbone holding the earth at the front lines of sea level rise. The invasive species they will be pulling threaten to crowd the native vegetation out, depriving all species (including humans!) of the benefits that come from healthy salt marshes.
Accessibility: This program involves walking on a gravel trail and working on a sloped dirt surface. There is a porta-potty onsite.
It is planting season! All the work Save The Bay has done throughout the year collecting seed, growing and caring for our precious native plants has been leading to this moment of opportunity provided by the seasonal rains. Save The Bay invites you to join them in putting these plants in the ground at the Ravenswood Unit of Don Edwards NWR, adjacent to Bedwell Bayfront Park.
Learn the latest about the life and times of our local burrowing owls from our own first Lead Scientist, Dr. Lynne Trulio of San Jose State University, at this free online lecture hosted by the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO).
Register here.
Join San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory ecologists to help restore habitat for birds and other wildlife at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Union City!
Volunteers will get to tour a restoration site that was just seeded and planted by SFBBO in fall-winter 2022-2023. The restoration site is not normally accessible to the public, so volunteers will get special access to a restricted area while helping remove invasive weeds like mustard, pepperweed, and poison hemlock!
It is planting season! All the work we’ve done throughout the year collecting seed, growing and caring for our precious native plants has been leading to this moment right as the seasonal rains approach. We hope you will join us in putting these plants in the ground at Eden landing, where they will help reclaim former industrial salt ponds and restore them into healthier salt marsh habitat for all.
More info and registration here.
It is planting season! All the work Save The Bay has done throughout the year collecting seed, growing and caring for precious native plants has been leading to this moment right as the seasonal rains approach. Restoration manager hope you will join in putting these plants in the ground at the Ravenswood Unit of Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge, next to Menlo Park's Bedwell Bayfront Park. These plants will be helping us restore degraded salt pond into healthy salt marsh habitat, giving wildlife good homes and our communities natural sea level rise protection!
It is planting season!
All the work Save The Bay has done throughout the year collecting seed, growing and caring for precious native plants has been leading to this moment right as the seasonal rains approach.
Save The Bay restoration managers hope you will join them in putting these plants in the ground at Eden Landing, where they will help transform former industrial salt ponds into healthier salt marsh habitat for all. The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project appreciates Save The Bay and community volunteers helping with this work at the ecological reserve!
Winter is coming!
For our partners at Save The Bay who are growing plants for our Ravenswood marsh restoration, that means it is time to prepare for planting season in high hopes of catching the seasonal rain.
Save The Bay restoration managers hope you will join them at the Ravenswood Nursery to get the native plants they’ve been growing all season ready to restore the marsh in front of Menlo Park's Bedwell Bayfront Park.
Register here.
