Save The Bay Blog

Are you looking to hone your wildland weed management skills? The California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC) offers invasive plant management trainings. Their Wildland Weed Field Courses are full-day workshops that provide expert instruction on core subjects for your work, including strategic approaches for wildland weed management, invasive plant biology and identification, control methods, and mapping. [...]

Save The Bay hosted a planting training day for the Golden Gate Audubon (GGAS) in exchange for a birding expedition at the Emeryville cresent. As a trade off, GGAS led a birding trip for Save The Bay.  We saw White and Brown Pelicans, Coots, Grebes (Eared and Western), Canvasback, Surf Scooter, Ruddy Ducks, Egrets, Herons, [...]

What does a Bay Area resident have to do to find the luck-bringing creature, the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse? For years, I have read the tales of ecologists spotting these tiny creatures in the wee hours of the night and imagined it happening to me. Up until this past Saturday, the only mouse I had [...]

by Amy Alton, Communications Associate Just two months into our winter planting season, we are nearly halfway to reaching our goal of planting 20,000 native seedlings at several sites along the shoreline to restore wetland habitat for the Bay and its wildlife. With many more programs scheduled from now until the end of March, we [...]