SOCIAL: SFNHS 5/20 Lecture: Restoring the Wild Heart of the South Bay - The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

[adrian cotter]

This thursday's lecture at the Randall.

Restoring the Wild Heart of the South Bay
The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project
Guest Speaker: John Bourgeois
7:30pm, Thursday, May 20, 2010

John Bourgeois, the Executive Project Manager for South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, will share with us their exciting restoration work. 

This project is the largest tidal wetland restoration project on the west coast. When complete, the project will have restored 15,100 acres of industrial salt ponds to a tidal wetlands and other habitats. This is part of a larger campaign to restore some 40,000 acres of lost  tidal wetlands in the Bay.

John Bourgeois has 15 years of experience working on large-scale wetland restoration projects. For 11 years he was a restoration ecologist with the Los Gatos-based ecological consulting firm H.T. Harvey and Associates.

More information can be found on their website:
http://www.southbayrestoration.org



FREE; donations encouraged. 
Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way 
Info:  415.554.9600 or http://www.randallmuseum.org 

FUTURE TALKS: 
June 24 -- Historic Watercourses of SF ~ Focus on the Wiggle & the Panhandle 
(Joel Pomerantz)

August  19 -- The History and Prospects for our only Native Freshwater Turtle
(Matthew Bettelheim)

September  16 -- Helping our Most Famous Butterfly: the Mission Blue on Twin Peaks
(Liam O'Brien)

October 21 -- The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
(Professor Richard Walker)

For more INFORMATION about the SFNHS lecture series, please visit
http://sfnhs.wordpress.com/

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