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In this Your Wetlands report we provide an update regarding the 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill.

The San Francisco Bay Joint Venture is celebrating its 15th anniversary, and we’ve been looking back at its history of preserving, protecting, and restoring wetlands around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Habitat Joint Ventures are groups of businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations who get together and determine key habitats that need to be preserved or restored.

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to some of the greatest wetland restoration projects the country has ever seen. With thousands upon thousands of acres being transformed, we truly have something to celebrate this May during American Wetlands Month.

One of the consequences of climate change is the predicted rise in sea level. How are communities and infrastructure going to be impacted from a rise in sea level?

Urban wetlands are just about everywhere. We sometimes just need to take a moment to notice them. They are the streams and creeks running through our neighborhoods and parks. They are the marshy areas where the Bay meets the land.

Located on the southern end of San Francisco Bay, the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project is the largest tidal wetland restoration project on the West Coast of North America.

On this edition of Your Wetlands, we’re continuing our discussion about the changing landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area with Malk Holmes of the Bay Institute.

Just down the road from Muir Woods National Monument is another amazing jewel: Muir Beach. And that is the site of an exciting restoration project.

Decades ago, a group of Berkley and Richmond area citizens founded the Urban Creeks Council in opposition to a channelization project by the Army Corps of Engineers.