Sears Point Wetland Restoration Project on San Pablo Bay

Levee breach at Tubbs Island

Project Update – February 2022 On Sunday October 25, 2015 Sonoma Land Trust breached a levee along the north edge of San Francisco Bay at Sears Point Ranch. The 285-foot-wide breach allowed salt water to fill a recently constructed 1,000-acre tidal marsh basin for the first time in over a century. The area is located … Read more

Beth Huning

Beth Huning

Beth Huning served as the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Coordinator from 2001-2018, and was a driving force behind its establishment. While working at Audubon, she collaborated with the first Joint Venture (JV) Coordinator, Nancy Schaefer, and colleagues Marge Kolar (USFWS), Marc Holmes (The Bay Institute), Holly Andree (Ducks Unlimited), Carl Wilcox (CDFW), and others … Read more

Do Look Up

Motus Tower

Motus towers have arrived in the South Bay! These radio telemetry towers track the locations of an array of animals including birds, bats, and dragonflies.

Five Years Later

Bufflehead

It has been five years since property-owners in the nine county Bay Area started paying $12/year toward the first-ever, region-wide parcel tax known as Measure AA, or the San Francisco Bay Clean Water, Pollution Prevention and Habitat Restoration Measure.

Nature-based solutions being pioneered at Sears Point

Sears Point

It’s already been more than six years since a 285-foot-wide breach allowed salt water to fill a 1,000-acre tidal marsh basin for the first time in over a century at Sears Point Ranch along Highway 37 in the North Bay.