Preparing for the next phase of restoration in Sonoma Creek marsh
Our 2015 project is already providing important habitat for sensitive bird species.
Published May 16, 2019
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Following up on ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ California's in San Francisco Bay, our staff went out to the site recently to prepare for the second phase of the project. The collaborative project between ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ California and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has already helped revitalize nearly 200 acres of prime Ridgway’s Rail and Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse habitat. Our climate-adaptive pilot project is already being looked at by decision makers throughout the Bay Area as a great example of sea-level rise resiliency through beneficial reuse of sediment.
The video is of a marsh pond draining the way it’s supposed to. Before our project, the water stagnated, killing habitat and creating breeding ground for mosquitos.