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Lunch and Learn Science: Benefits for Project Monitoring and Decision-making: the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program and the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project – Christina Toms, WRMP & Donna Ball, Restoration Project

Christina Toms, Regional Water Quality Control Board and Chair, Wetland Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) TAC
Christina Toms, Regional Water Quality Control Board and Chair, Wetland Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) TAC

Learn how wetland managers across the Bay Area are collaborating to conduct monitoring at a regional scale to save on costs and gain greater understanding of the factors affecting wetland restoration success. Christina Toms of the Regional Water Quality Control Board on June 10, 2025, joined Restoration Project Lead Scientist Donna Ball for a joint presentation on this Bay-wide collaboration, called the Wetland Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP).

Weeding Party at Alviso Marina County Park

Volunteers at work.
Volunteers at work.

You are invited to join Santa Clara County Parks Natural Resource Management team, in partnership with San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, in their efforts to restore the coastal habitat of Alviso Marina County Park.

Volunteers will help with removing invasive plants, planting native plants, spreading mulch, and more! SFBBO and County Parks staff will teach volunteers about tidal marsh ecology and the natural history of the San Francisco Bay.

Volunteers will assist in the removal of invasive plants and the spreading of mulch in preparation for the planting of native plants.

Birdy Hour with Lynne Trulio: Beautiful California Biodiversity - Understanding and Protecting It

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We share the Earth with millions of other species.  But, our planet is experiencing a biodiversity crisis in which a significant portion of these species are in danger of extinction in coming decades.  While the Earth has undergone mass extinctions in the past—such as when a meteor strike doomed the dinosaurs—the current mass extinction event is caused by humans.  This loss of species is a tragedy for the Earth’s ecology and non-human inhabitants, but will also have significant impacts on human societies.

Weeding Party at Alviso Marina

Volunteers at work.
Volunteers at work.

You are invited to join Santa Clara County Parks Natural Resource Management team, in partnership with San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, in their efforts to restore the coastal habitat of Alviso Marina County Park.

Volunteers will assist in the removal of invasive plants and the spreading of mulch in preparation for the planting of native plants.

Youth and families are encouraged to participate. 

Please bring sturdy gloves, closed toe shoes (boots if possible), and your can-do attitudes!

Weed Pull at Eden Landing!

People weeding mustard plants. Credit: Save The Bay
People weeding mustard plants. Credit: Save The Bay

You can come join Save The Bay at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's 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. Restoration leaders hope you will enjoy giving their baby native plants the support they need to transform the land!

Mud Stomp March 2025: Help create habitat for threatened birds

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Event flyer

You can join the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) to help set up the first national tagging study for threatened western snowy plovers! Volunteers will help do precision work in wet and muddy areas, carrying rebar and other equipment to set up electronic grids across two ponds at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Hayward.

Register here.