Save The Bay Blog

San Francisco Bay’s wetlands are vibrant, complex, and truly beautiful places.   Save The Bay’s wetland restoration sites span the Bay, reaching from Palo Alto and Menlo Park in the South up through Hayward, Oakland, and into Marin.   Each one of these sites has a unique history, geography, and compliment of flora and fauna worthy of [...]

This is a guest blog by Mark Feldman: On a sunny Tuesday morning in January a group of high school students were using an interpretive dance to show middle school students the steps for planting seedlings in the marsh at the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline Park in Oakland.  The older students dramatized how to [...]

When I say service, you say learning: service-learning, service-learning! Three cheers for the 21st Annual National Service Learning Conference. A few short weeks ago, thousands of youth, teachers, and service-learning practitioners from around the globe gathered at the San Jose Convention Center to get inspired, share ideas, and gain tools for engaging young people in [...]

By Chiara Swartout, Canoes In Sloughs Field Educator It’s mid-afternoon at Bothin Marsh and we are approaching the turnaround point of our canoe adventure. It is at this moment that I realize I should have checked the tides more carefully, because I have no memory of this marsh ever coming even close to draining as [...]

By Trisha Allen, Education Coordinator Have you ever wondered what 1,137 middle and high school students navigating the San Francisco Bay sloughs in canoes look like? It looks like gaggles of excited and nervous kids clad in Save The Bay’s finest PFDs, outfitted with paddles, and all geared up for a sensory exploration of the [...]