2008
Created the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority by sponsoring Assembly Bill 2954. This new regional agency will secure crucial funding to re-establish 100,000 acres of healthy Bay wetlands, as recommended in the Greening the Bay report.

Launched Cities Keep It Clean program, partnering with San Jose and other Bay Area cities to significantly reduce toxic runoff pollution in the Bay.

Secured federal recognition that 23 Bay shoreline areas are severely polluted by trash, violating the federal Clean Water Act, after Save The Bay named them Bay Trash Hot Spots.

Initiated campaign to prevent Cargill from paving over and developing 1,433 acres of retired salt ponds in Redwood City that could be restored to Bay wetlands.

Named "Nonprofit of the Year" by the Association for Corporate Growth San Francisco Bay Area chapter.

2007
Published Greening the Bay: Financing Wetland Restoration in San Francisco Bay, a report presenting the case for a vibrant, healthy Bay ecosystem and recommendations to achieve it.

Save The Bay's Watershed Education Program reached its ten-year anniversary, educating over 50,000 students from all nine area counties about the Bay and on the Bay.

Placed thought-provoking pollution prevention advertisements on public transit, educating tens of thousands Bay Area residents about how to reduce their impact on the Bay.

Shaped regional response to the Cosco Busan oil spill, encouraging comprehensive accident investigation, damage assessment, and restitution, and prompting improved federal and state efforts to prevent oil spills.

2006
Launched Keep It Clean! campaign showing residents how to reduce Bay pollution from cities and neighborhoods.

Collected 2000 mercury thermometers from Bay Area residents, preventing potential contamination of ten billion gallons of water.

Won Excellence in Restoration Award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Restoration Center.

Secured state funding for Bay Area counties to monitor Bay beaches for bacteria contamination.

2005
Save The Bay's Watershed Education and Restoration programs won the Friends of the San Francisco Estuary Outstanding Project Award.

Ensured restoration of tidal marsh habitat by successfully demanding the U.S. Navy do a full cleanup of toxic Superfund Site 25 at Moffett Field in Mountain View.

2004
Secured passage of Healthy Bay Beaches legislation to protect public health by requiring regular and consistent water quality monitoring at Bay Beaches to make them safe for recreation. more>>

2003
Helped state and federal wildlife agencies secure 16,500 of salt ponds for restoration to wetlands and related habitat. more>>

Forced San Francisco International Airport to cancel runway expansion project that would have filled up to two square miles of the Bay. more>>

Won litigation to force the U.S. Department of Interior to provide an additional 800,000 acre-feet of fresh water annually into the Bay-Delta, as mandated by the Central Valley Project Improvement Act of 1992.

2002
Published Turning Salt Into Environmental Gold, demonstrating the feasibility of South Bay salt pond restoration.

Launched Discover The Bay to provide the public with fun and inspiring adventures on the Bay shoreline.

Published Reclaiming the South Bay Shoreline, a Vision for Wetland restoration at Moffett Field.

2001
Amended San Francisco City Charter to require voter approval for any large Bay fill project—Save The Bay led the coalition that secured passage of Ballot Proposition D by a 3 to 1 margin.

Published Putting It Back Together, drawing lessons from six large-scale ecosystem restoration projects across the nation to generate recommendations for San Francisco Bay-Delta restoration.

Published a new Watershed Ecology Curriculum for Bay Area teachers, meeting California's science standards for sixth through twelfth grades.

2000
Launched a Community-Based Restoration program, mobilizing community volunteers and students to restore wetlands around the Bay.

Published Protecting Local Wetlands: A Toolbox For Your Community, a resource to help community leaders understand and use wetland regulations.

1999
Launched a campaign to prevent unnecessary Bay fill for SFO's proposed runway expansion into the Bay.

Published a study showing the potential for the reuse of clean Bay-dredged materials to restore wetlands habitat on severely subsided Delta islands.

1997
Warned communities about the health risks of eating contaminated fish caught in the Bay. Our Seafood Consumption Information Project provided information in eight languages on how to clean and cook fish to minimize exposure to toxins.

Launched Canoes In Sloughs, Save The Bay's unique, on-the-water student education program.

Produced San Pablo Baylands, a film about North Bay wetlands protection and restoration, and a stewardship program for the region.

1995
Led successful grassroots campaign to defeat Governor Pete Wilson's proposal to eliminate the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, in collaboration with the Bay Planning Coalition.

Helped create Restore America's Estuaries, a national alliance of 11 "Save The Bay" organizations stretching from Maine to Louisiana, and Seattle to Florida.

1994
Helped broker a negotiated settlement of California’s "water wars," the Bay-Delta Accord, which led to the adoption of new state standards for protection of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary.

1992
Save The Bay and a coalition of organizations united as "Share the Water" helped draft and win enactment of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. Authored by Rep. George Miller and Senator Bill Bradley, and signed by President George Bush, the law is one of the most significant water policy reforms in California history.

Helped Citizens for Eastshore State Park secure state acquisition of key parcels to protect and preserve the shoreline of Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany and Richmond.

1986
Submitted a key brief in state court to protect the Bay-Delta Estuary, resulting in the Racanelli decision, regulating the amount of water diverted from the Delta and adjoining river systems.

1982
Campaigned to defeat the Peripheral Canal at the state ballot box, protecting the Delta from additional detrimental fresh water diversion.

1980
Defeated two enormous Bay fill proposals:

• Off the Berkeley shoreline, through a landmark decision by the California Supreme Court in Santa Fe Railroad vs. City of Berkeley and State of California.
• A proposal by the Westbay Community Associates to remove the top of San Bruno Mountain for Bay fill along San Mateo County shoreline.

1974
Secured passage of the state's first wetlands protection law, the Suisun Marsh Preservation Act.

1970
First Earth Day—Save The Bay was cited as an international model at the 1970 Stockholm Conference on the Environment.

1969
Won state legislation to make the Bay Conservation and Development Commission a permanent regulatory agency, empowered to permit development on the Bay and a 100-foot shoreline band, and to require public access to the shoreline.

1965
Mobilized tens of thousands of members and other organizations to win state legislation placing a moratorium on additional filling of San Francisco Bay. The McAteer-Petris Act established the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) as a state agency that would become the first coastal protection agency in the United States.

1961
Save The Bay (Save San Francisco Bay Association) was founded by three women to stop unregulated filling of San Francisco Bay and to open up the Bay shoreline to public access.