Aquatic Park EGRET is the stewardship group for the tidal
wetlands of Berkeley’s largest city park. Volunteers from the
community help us tend native coastal plantings to improve the
shoreline of San Francisco Bay for wildlife habitat. Over 90
people showed up to help clean and landscape on January 18th.
Photos can be seen here:
http://web.mac.com/hoohaus/iWeb/Site/AquaParkCleanUp-PHOTOS.html
As a major stop on the Pacific Flyway, Berkeley’s Aquatic Park
hosts many migratory birds stopping on their way south. This
category will be used to post announcements of migratory birds
seen in the park. The City of Berkeley is requesting a “Negative
Declaration” of environmental impact of a major dredging
project. Read details here. Help stop flooding and habitat
damage to Aquatic Park The City of Berkeley plans to use $2
million in Clean Water Bond money from the State Coastal
Conservancy to open discharge outlets from the City’s primary
storm drains into the tidal bay ponds of Aquatic Park. Discharge
of contaminated