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Environment
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 week ago

Contra Costa's ecosystem being restored, one indigenous plant at a time

Volunteer-led native planting converted Clayton Valley Drain from 5% native cover in 2013 to 100% in 2024, improving habitat and watershed health.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Salmon returning to Bay Area creek for first time in 70 years could be sign of environmental renewal to come

Since the beginning of November, volunteers from the nonprofit group Alameda Creek Alliance which has worked to remove dams and install fish ladders since 1997 have recorded nearly a dozen specimens of Chinook Salmon. These sightings come just weeks after PG&E and the nonprofit CalTrout finished a $15 million project to remove a gas pipeline that was the last barrier impeding fish migration upstream.
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