Save The Bay Blog

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 [...]

The numbers have been tallied and we are please to announce the total numbers of native plants installed by SAVE THE BAY VOLUNTEERS for 2011-12 planting season is: 9804 at the Martin Luther King Jr Shoreline in Oakland 411 in Mill Valley at Bothin Marsh 5461 at the Palo Alto Baylands 4284 in East Palo [...]

Earth Day is known as a time to celebrate the wondrous biological diversity on this planet and the tremendous efforts people throughout the world are undertaking to protect, conserve, and restore nature’s finite and fragile ecosystems. Here at Save The Bay, over 60 volunteers came out to remove invasive species and plant over 300 seedlings [...]

Every once in a while a group comes along that stands out. Driving down to Eden Landing in the rain with my co-instructor Jack we were worried about volunteers showing up on a rainy Saturday morning. We quickly realized that we’d be okay when a giant bus full of high school choir students from Allentown, [...]

A tip of a fin poked out from the water. “Look at that!” I exclaim, looking up from the quadrat, where I was busily measuring plant heights during a day of monitoring at one of our restoration sites. “Look at what?” my field partner replies. “That,” I say, “Look at that,” I now say again [...]