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Photo by California State Parks Foundation
Photo by California State Parks Foundation
Bay Youth for the Environment, a wetland education program under the auspices of the California State Parks Foundation, will propagate and plant 5,000 to 6,000 native species in the Yosemite Slough Wetlands, the largest contiguous wetland area in the City and County of San Francisco. This project offers participating youth from the underserved Hunter’s Point community a unique combination of training in wetland ecology, horticultural techniques, and nursery operations, plus gives them some general life/professional skills development. At the same time, it restores an area of the Bay where urban impacts to wetlands have been among the most severe; the project site is currently undergoing remediation to remove toxic sediment, which runs off into the Bay in stormwater during high rainfall events. Once remediation and restoration are complete, Yosemite Slough will provide increased opportunity for recreation for the community. The youth involved in the project will also organize and attend community meetings and events to do outreach about the ecology of the restored wetlands and wetlands stewardship.
The restoration project will result in greater mid- and high marsh cover, more transitional habitat, and a reduction in invasive plants, as well as offer an example of tidal marsh restoration in an urbanized watershed, greater community involvement and stewardship of Candlestick Point, and improved stormwater quality. |
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This project is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund. |
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