Edgewater Seasonal Wetland Jan. 2011 - MLK Shoreline
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WETLANDS RESTORATION: In 1998 one of the East Bay’s most significant wetlands restoration projects was completed at Martin Luther King Jr.Regional Shoreline, which restored tidal flow to 71acres of tidal and seasonal wetlands that had been filled in the mid 1980s. The project was a co-operative effort of the Park District, the Port of Oakland, the Golden Gate Audubon Society, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board, all in partnership with Save San Francisco Bay Association, the Sierra Club, and Citizens for Alameda’s Last Marshlands. The project resulted in recolonization of native plants and the return of many species of birds. Thousands of migrating birds have returned to the marsh annually to rest and feed, and for some species such as avocets, terns, egrets, and the endangered California clapper rail and burrowing owl, to live at the marsh year round.
Edgewater Seasonal Wetland Jan. 2011 - MLK Shoreline
ebparks.org/
WETLANDS RESTORATION: In 1998 one of the East Bay’s most significant wetlands restoration projects was completed at Martin Luther King Jr.Regional Shoreline, which restored tidal flow to 71acres of tidal and seasonal wetlands that had been filled in the mid 1980s. The project was a co-operative effort of the Park District, the Port of Oakland, the Golden Gate Audubon Society, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board, all in partnership with Save San Francisco Bay Association, the Sierra Club, and Citizens for Alameda’s Last Marshlands. The project resulted in recolonization of native plants and the return of many species of birds. Thousands of migrating birds have returned to the marsh annually to rest and feed, and for some species such as avocets, terns, egrets, and the endangered California clapper rail and burrowing owl, to live at the marsh year round.