Your Wetlands Podcast

Autumn on the Wetlands

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:25:10 +0000

A lot is going on in the world of wetlands that surround San Francisco Bay during fall. In this program series, we hear from key Joint Venture partners – Beth Huning, Marc Holmes, and Diane Ross-Leach – on the following topics:

Funding Restoration Efforts (Marc Holmes-Part 2): Marc Holmes gives an update on the current state of funding for restoration efforts.

SFBJV’s 15-Year Anniversary: Diane Ross-Leach, San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Management Board Chair, talks about the Joint Venture’s accomplishments during its first 15 years.

Scale of Wetlands Restoration (Marc Holmes-Part 1): Marc Holmes is the director of The Bay Institute’s Restoration Program as well as a member of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture (SFBJV) Management Board. Marc has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of efforts to restore wetlands around the San Francisco Bay. On this report, he talks about how the scale of restoration has changed since the inception of the SFBJV.

Fall Birding with Beth Huning: Beth Huning, Coordinator of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture and an avid birder herself, provides suggestions for places to catch the fall migration of a variety of birds (links to bird watching hotspots are below!)

Learn more:

Book Link: The San Francisco Bay Joint Venture – Celebrating 15 years of partnerships protecting wetlands and wildlife [5.3 MB PDF]

Bird Watching: For those of you following Beth’s Bay Area hotspots for bird watching during fall migration, here are some links to the places she mentions where you can find more information and directions to these locations!

North Bay:

Summer on the Wetlands

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:35:53 +0000

A lot is going on in the world of wetlands that surround San Francisco Bay. In this August program series, we hear from three key Joint Venture partners about local birding hotspots, current wetlands restoration projects and the release of the first regional State of the Birds Report.

Birding Around the Bay With Beth Huning: The first program in the series features San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Coordinator Beth Huning who shares a plethora of Bay Area birding spots, with some birding identification tips, what you are likely to see and when, as well as other natural history events happening here in the coming months.

What is Going On? With SFBJV Conservation Delivery Chair Marc Holmes: On the second program in this series, Marc talks about some of the Joint Venture’s more current wetland restoration projects that are turning the tide on a history of wetland destruction and bringing back wildlife habitat around the Bay.

The SF Bay State of the Birds Report with SFBJV Outreach Chair Melissa Pitkin: In 2009 the first State of the Birds Report was distributed nationally. This September, PRBO Conservation Science and the SFBJV, along with over 20 contributing bird conservation scientists, are releasing the first regional State of the Birds Report for the Bay Area. (This is the final report in the Summer on the Wetlands series.)

Learn more:

San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Events Page
San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Partners
Bay Nature Events
State of the Birds Report (link will be available soon)

San Francisco Bay’s Subtidal Habitat

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:32:24 +0000

San Francisco Bay is said to be the most studied estuary in the world but most of that effort has been focused on the shoreline and tidal wetland areas. On this report, Marilyn Latta, Project Manager with the California State Coastal Conservancy, tells us about the newly released “San Francisco Bay Subtidal Habitat Goals Report.” It focuses on restoration needs and opportunities for the subtidal habitats in the bay which includes all of the submerged area beneath the water’s surface: mud, shell, sand, rocks, artificial structures, shellfish beds, over 3,700 acres of eelgrass beds, macroalgal beds, and the water column itself.

San Francisco Bay Subtidal Habitat Goals Report

Redwood Creek Construction Update

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:30:26 +0000

An update from Barth Campbell, President of Campbell Grading, the landscape company that is rechannelizing Redwood Creek at Muir Beach which is a primary habitat for the Coho Salmon and Red-Legged frog.

Protecting Critters During Construction

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:25:00 +0000

Darren Fong, Aquatic Ecologist with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, explains what’s being done to help minimize the construction impacts to the animals living in the area during the current restoration project of Redwood Creek at Muir Beach.

Expanded trails and public access at Muir Beach

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:18:37 +0000

This is a continuation of our series about the restoration of Redwood Creek and Big Lagoon at Muir Beach by the National Park Service along with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. Our guest is Carolyn Shoulders, Project Manager for the Redwood Creek Restoration Project at Muir Beach.

Restoring Redwood Creek at Muir Beach

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:05:22 +0000

Last Fall, the National Park Service along with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy began to restore Redwood Creek and Big Lagoon at Muir Beach. The project is in progress and visitors will notice many changes over the coming seasons and years. The restoration seeks to improve water flow, remove non-native species, benefit Coho salmon, the red-legged frog and other wildlife and will increase public access in the surrounding area. Our guest is Carolyn Shoulders, Project Manager for the Redwood Creek Restoration Project at Muir Beach.

An Earth Day for the Birds

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:48:25 +0000

Earth Day is a good time to think about birds and what we can do to protect them. Here are some great ideas from Graham Chisholm, Executive Director of Audubon California. (Photo of Pacific-slope Flycatcher courtesy of David Gardner)

Audublog: Making a better place for birds in San Pablo Bay

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:07:06 +0000

Audubon California just completed its project with the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge to enhance tidal marsh habitat in San Pablo Bay, one of the Bay Area’s most important places for birds. Check out our video on the project, or visit our website to learn more.

State of the Estuary Conference

yourwetlands@gmail.com (San Francisco Bay Joint Venture) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:43:24 +0000

The State of the Estuary Conference provides a biennial assessment of the ecological health of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. Beth Huning, coordinator of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture and conference attendee, talks about this year’s conference. (Photo courtesy of Beth Huning/San Francisco Bay Joint Venture)