The restoration team kicked off the revegetation planting season in November with a field trip to long-time plant propagation partner, The Watershed Nursery Cooperative, to tour the facilities and to learn more about nursery best management practices.
This year, the project’s workforce development program hired and trained additional field staff to help cover the increased project scale, as well as providing vital opportunities for the emerging generation of stewardship professionals.
Invasive Spartina treatment may not be considered the most sexy restoration activity, but it is a critical action to enable the San Francisco Bay to adapt to sea level rise. Surrounded by residential and industrial development, agriculture, and infrastructure, the San Francisco Bay is the most urbanized estuary west of the Mississippi River.
This year, the ISP enters its 18th season of monitoring and treating invasive Spartina in the San Francisco Estuary. In late June, biologists began surveys across the 221 sites within the project’s 70,000 acres, spanning the shoreline of nine counties. Inventory surveys and mapping will continue through the fall to inform treatment or to confirm absence of the invasive plant.
ISP biologists just finished this year’s rail surveys, which means we have been seeing lots of sunrises and sunsets!
Invasive Spartina treatment work is almost complete for the 2021 season! A total of 153 sites were treated, beginning in early June and slated for completion during the first week of December.
The Invasive Spartina Project (ISP) has been busy gearing up for the 2021 treatment season! The California Invasive Plant Council, the State Coastal Conservancy, and our many partners have been working hard to eradicate invasive cordgrass and restore tidal marshes and mudflats across San Francisco Bay, providing crucial habitat for Ridgway’s rail and other sensitive … Summer 2021 Update