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Save The Bay Planting at Eden Landing!

Volunteers planting. Credit: Save The Bay
Volunteers planting. Credit: Save The Bay

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. They hope you will join them in putting these plants in the ground at the California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife's Eden Landing Ecological Reserve, where they will restore former industrial salt ponds into healthier salt marsh habitat for all.

Lunch and Learn Science: Fish and Fish Habitats in South Bay Wetlands – Levi Lewis, UC Davis OG Fish Lab

Dr. Levi S. Lewis, Director of the UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry and Fish Ecology Laboratory
Dr. Levi S. Lewis, Director of the UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry and Fish Ecology Laboratory

Dr. Levi S. Lewis, Director of the UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry and Fish Ecology Laboratory, discusses studies of South Bay fish and fish habitats, highlighting key findings regarding their status and trends, and how these results have informed the development of bay-wide fish monitoring under the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program.

WEATHER CANCELLATION: Fall 2024 Mud Stomp II - Help Create Habitat for Threatened Birds

Event flyer
Event flyer

You can join us to help improve the nesting success of threatened western snowy plovers at the Ravenswood Ponds! 

Partner San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) will host a volunteer and scientist event to stomp nesting holes in the mud and scatter oyster shells for camouflage at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Menlo Park. These activities increase ground and pond texture and habitat complexity, helping the birds camouflage their nests so they can better evade predators.

Plover and Tern 2024 Fall Mud Stomp at Ravenswood!

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Event flyer

Help create habitat for threatened birds! You can join the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory at the Ravenswood Ponds in Menlo Park to stomp in the mud and thereby improve nesting habitat for threatened western snowy plovers.

To help improve the nesting success of these threatened species, SFBBO and volunteers will increase ground and pond texture and habitat complexity to help camouflage nests from predators. The event is at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge near the Dumbarton Bridge. 

Discover the Flyway Trail at the Ravenswood Ponds!

Visitors at the Flyway Trail
Visitors at the Flyway Trail

You can discover wildlife from a 360 degree view at the shore-side new Flyway Trail in Menlo Park! 

Join Park Rangers for a walk of less than 2 miles along the new trail, which travels along bird ponds and newly restoring tidal marsh, connecting Bayfront Highway and the Meta Bridge with Menlo Park's Bedwell Bayfront Park. The trail, newly built by the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, is in the Ravenswood Unit of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

Brown Bag Science: Breach it and they will come: Protecting SBSP restoration marshes from invasive plants, the uninvited guests to the party – Drew Kerr, Invasive Spartina Project

Drew Kerr on the Bay
Drew Kerr on the Bay

Drew Kerr of the Invasive Spartina Project discussed how managing invasive plants as tidal marshes develop and mature provides a critical foundation for successfully establishing diverse Restoration Project marsh plant communities.