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Key Initiatives

We foster collaboration, integrate science with conservation action and help problem solve with creativity and innovation.
Primary drivers influence our focus areas and activities:

Habitat Goals

The SFBJV achieves habitat and wildlife goals by working with project partners to add acres of high-quality habitat to the region. Maintaining, improving, and expanding habitat is vital to all efforts the SFBJV supports, promotes, and implements. It is critical to maintain a focus on SFBJV’s protection, restoration, and enhancement goals across all focus areas and activities.
San Francisco Bay Wetlands

Planning

The SFBJV will support projects that prioritize natural over built infrastructure, and which restore functional wetlands and ecosystem connectivity. The SFBJV will actively communicate the critical importance of wildlife and ecosystem health as key components for all planning efforts. Planning efforts should recognize that threats often create increased vulnerability for people. These efforts should seek opportunities to minimize negative impacts on and maximize benefits to communities.

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Green Tape

Many agencies and organizations across California have identified “cutting green tape” as critical to “improving interagency coordination, partnerships, and agency processes and policies to allow ecological restoration and stewardship to occur more quickly, simply, and cost-effectively.” Actualizing the SFBJV’s habitat goals requires expanding efforts to accelerate the permitting of restoration projects and cross collaboration among partners and agencies that share a mission to protect and restore the San Francisco Estuary.
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Sediment

Region-wide sediment supply and distribution is frequently a limiting factor in habitat restoration. Current policies result in large quantities of clean, dredged sediment transported out of the estuary and dumped at a deep ocean “disposal” site. To address the projected sediment deficit in the Estuary beginning after 2030, studies have shown that we need to significantly increase the amount of sediment remaining in the system and used for beneficial purposes at restoration sites.

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Funding

Accomplishing broader SFBJV goals requires significant funding for all aspects of conservation implementation, including project design, review, implementation, and monitoring. The primary focus of this action is on securing funding for implementation of on-the-ground habitat projects.
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