Save The Bay Blog

Here at Save The Bay, we have been excitedly planning our clean-up at Damon Slough this Saturday. Located in Oakland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline, Damon Slough was the winner of our annual Bay Trash Hot Spots contest in 2011, beating out other trash-clogged waterways like San Jose’s Guadalupe River and Pulgas Creek in San [...]

After a stern rejection in Redwood City last week, Cargill’s development partner DMB immediately promised to keep pushing to build a new city on restorable salt ponds that would threaten the health of the Bay, put residents in the path of rising seas and forever destroy open space. Despite overwhelming public opposition, these stubborn corporations [...]

It was a hot Saturday morning and my fellow field staff Jon and I were busy preparing for a full public program on Cinco de Mayo.  As we drove out onto the levee at Eden Landing Ecological Preserve we notice how well all of the California native plants were doing.  “Wow! Look at that Marsh [...]

Earlier this week, we shared that the developers behind Cargill’s massive bay fill project have officially withdrawn their proposal to build thousands of houses on Redwood City’s restorable salt ponds. The fight is not over, so please take action and tell Cargill: it’s time to sell these salt ponds to be restored – not paved [...]

It’s Bike to Work week, so the Save The Bay wonks thought it would be a great opportunity to talk about one of our favorite long-term projects, and how we can work together to increase the number of shoreline bike and walking paths around the Bay, as well as expanding access to thousands of acres [...]