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Photo by Save the Bay
At Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Hayward, and Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland, trained community volunteers directed by Save the Bay will establish and enhance tidal marsh transition zone habitat for recovery of endangered species and improved water quality. MLK Shoreline is at the confluence of five urban creeks, and is a magnet for thousands of stewardship volunteers; Eden Landing Ecological Reserve is at the mouth of Alameda Creek, where additional upstream restoration activities are underway to benefit salmon and steelhead.
Seven thousand native plants will be planted, 750 volunteers trained, and 6,000 pounds of non-native plants removed, resulting in the restoration of a high quality transition zone at the tidal salt marsh and managed ponds, improved water quality and habitat for endangered species including the California clapper rail and salt marsh harvest mouse, and reduced infestations of invasive species (Lepidium latifolium, Spartina alterniflora, and Carpobrotus edulis). The increased cover of native plant species (Jaumea carnosa, Distichlis spicata, Frankenia salina, and Grindelia stricta) will result in improved vegetation structure and detrital resources for fisheries and marine mammals in the intertidal and subtidal habitats of the project areas. The project overall will demonstrate effective habitat restoration methods at former salt ponds by comparing revegetation and invasive control treatments to determine the best techniques and species for wetland vegetation reestablishment.
As of November 2009, with the help of over 500 student and adult volunteers, Save the Bay had removed 6,600 pounds of invasive plants from the marsh transition zones at Eden Landing and the Martin Luther King Jr. shoreline and had begun propagating 7,000 native plants to help restore those areas.
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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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