July 23, 2008 > Get involved by learning and restoring salt
ponds Get involved by learning and restoring salt ponds
Submitted By Jennifer Heroux Photos By courtesy of US Fish &
Wildlife The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project is the
largest wetlands restoration project that has ever taken place
on the West Coast. In 2003, 15,100 acres of South Bay salt ponds
were acquired from Cargill, and over the next few decades, these
ponds will be restored or enhanced to a range of wetland
habitats. Please see our project website for more information:
www.southbayrestoration.org/Project_Description.html. As we
enter the first phase of Restoration work, The Fish & Wildlife
Service is again offering public programs about the South Bay
Salt Pond Restoration Project. From the Environmental Education
Center in Alviso there is an easy, .25-mile boardwalk that takes
visitors through a historic tidal salt marsh to the edge of one
of the ponds. The salt ponds are manmade and were created to
harvest the salt occurring naturall