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Celebrating Fifteen Years 15 The San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program Celebrating Fifteen Years 15 1 The Conservancy is fortunate to work with fantastic partners. Our conservation and education goals could not be met without the hard work and expertise of partner organizations and agencies. The projects featured throughout this report have been accomplished thanks to the organizations and public agencies below, the recipients of Conservancy grants over the past 15 years. CONTENTS Dear Friend: NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS BAY AREA CITIES We are thrilled to be celebrating the 15th anniversary of the San Francisco Bay Area Acterra Alameda Palo Alto Partners 2 American Rivers Albany Petaluma Conservancy Program. To those who established the Bay Program legislatively, delivered the Arc Ecology Benicia Redwood City Introduction 3 projects funded by the Bay Program, provided matching funds or support, or simply enjoyed a Bay Access, Inc. Berkeley Richmond Bay Nature Institute Brentwood Richmond Redevelopment Agency Who We Are 4 new trail or park, we say Thank You! Bay Area Open Space Council Brisbane San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Bay Area Ridge Trail Council Concord San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department The Coastal Conservancy, which houses the Bay Program, is proud of what we have achieved Berryessa Trails and Conservation East Palo Alto San Leandro Focus Areas Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area Conservation Partnership El Cerrito San Jose in our first fifteen years. This report outlines the major accomplishments in each program California Invasive Plant Council Fairfield San Mateo The Greenbelt 6 California Land Stewardship Institute Half Moon Bay Santa Rosa area and highlights exemplary projects in each of the Bay Area’s nine counties. The number California Sportfishing Alliance Martinez Sausalito Creeks and Rivers 8 of projects completed is staggering, and represents the hard work and commitment of both California State Parks Foundation Oakland Sebastopol California Wildlife Foundation Pacifica Community Based Projects 10 individuals and organizations to protect open space, restore habitats, preserve local farms and Carquinez Regional Environmental Education Center BAY AREA COUNTIES Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration Wetlands 12 ranches, protect our waterways, and connect people to nature. County of Contra Costa Circuit Rider Productions Local Farms 14 Coastal Conservancy Association County of Marin Our partners have included land trusts, open space districts, cities and counties, water districts, Coastal Watershed Council County of Napa Regional Trails 16 Conservation Corps North Bay County of San Mateo ports, fellow state agencies, federal resource agencies, environmental and community organi- Coastside Land Trust County of Santa Clara Urban Waterfronts 18 zations, private foundations, and local universities. Working together, we have moved projects Delta Science Center County of Sonoma Ducks Unlimited Marin County Department of Parks and Open Space Education Centers 20 from dreams to reality, benefiting the people and wildlife of the Bay Area. EcoCity Builders San Mateo Environmental Services Agency Conservation Planning 22 Ecotrust Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department What’s next? We are in significantly tougher economic times right now, and for the foreseeable Fort Mason Foundation Sonoma County Regional Parks Friends of the San Francisco Estuary PORTS future we will not likely see a level of funding comparable to the Bay Program’s first fifteen Friends of Five Creeks Around the Bay Port of Oakland Friends of San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department years. Within the next two to three years our grant funds for new projects will be spent. Port of Richmond Friends of Sausal Creek Port of San Francisco San Francisco 23 However, the Conservancy will continue to dedicate staff time and resources to the projects we Golden Gate Audubon Society Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy SPECIAL DISTRICTS AND JOINT POWERS AUTHORITIES North Bay 24 are currently leading. As new state or regional funds become available, the Conservancy will Greenbelt Alliance Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District East Bay 26 continue our work to ensure that the Bay Area remains among the best places on earth. GreenInfo Network Alameda County Resource Conservation District Island Conservation Alameda County Water District South Bay and Peninsula 28 KTEH-TV Foundation Bay Area Clean Water Agencies Sincerely, Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation Bay Area Toll Authority LandPaths Contra Costa County Resource Conservation District Land Trust of Napa County East Bay Municipal Utility District The Next 15 Years 30 Land Trust of Santa Clara County East Bay Regional Park District Thanks 31 Literacy for Environmental Justice Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District Marin Agricultural Land Trust Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District Marin Audubon Society Greater Vallejo Recreation District Douglas Bosco Samuel Schuchat Martin Luther King Junior Freedom Center Harmony Union School District Muir Heritage Land Trust Livermore Area Recreation and Park District Cover photos: top © JITZE COUPERUS; bottom, 1 & 2 – Annie Burke; 3 – JUDY Irving © PELICAN MEDIA Board Chair Executive Officer National Audubon Society Marin County Open Space District Natural Heritage Institute Marin County Resource Conservation District Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Marin Municipal Water District Ocean Song Farm and Wilderness Center Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District IORITO F Pacifica Land Trust Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District Peninsula Open Space Trust Napa County Resource Conservation District HARLOTTE PRBO Conservation Science Novato Sanitary District C Point Reyes National Seashore Association Richardson Bay Regional Agency Rails-to-Trails Conservancy San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority San Bruno Mountain Watch San Mateo County Resource Conservation District Sail San Francisco Santa Clara County Open Space Authority Riparian Habitat Joint Venture Solano Resource Conservation District San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Solano Transportation Authority San Francisco Bay Trail Project Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society Sonoma County Water Agency San Francisco Estuary Institute Sotoyome Resource Conservation District San Francisco Maritime National Park Association Southern Sonoma County Resource Conservation District San Francisco Parks Trust Zone 7 Water Agency San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association San Francisquito Watershed Council COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation Association of Bay Area Governments Save Mount Diablo Save San Francisco Bay Association (Save The Bay) STATE AGENCIES Save the Redwoods League California Department of Parks and Recreation Solano Land Trust California Department of Fish and Game Sonoma Ecology Center California Department of Water Resources Sonoma Land Trust Delta Protection Commission Spanish Speaking Unity Council Wildlife Conservation Board Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods FEDERAL AGENCIES Sustainable Conservation The Bay Institute National Park Service: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore The Exploratorium U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The Nature Conservancy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge The Watershed Project U.S. Geological Survey Tomales Bay Watershed Council UNIVERSITIES Tri-Valley Conservancy California State University, Sacramento: Center for Collaborative Policy Trout Unlimited Regents of the University of California Trust for Public Land Stanford University Urban Creeks Council University of California, Berkeley Urban Ecology University of California Natural Reserve System ROSNAN J B 1 3 Who We Are Fifteen years ago, State Senator Byron Sher, a “I’m gratified that champion of California’s natural environment, Fifteen years introduced a visionary bill to establish the San my colleagues in the Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program. Signed Over 425 Projects by Governor Wilson later that year, the bill was Legislature joined me in both the culmination of years of work by the Bay creating the Bay Area Protected Land: 83,772 acres Area Open Space Council and the beginning of an 15 effective new program for open space protection, Conservancy Program. Wetland Projects: 34,793 acres habitat restoration, and regional trails and recreation in the nine-county Bay Area. It has exceeded my 4 Regional Trails: over 200 miles Integrating the Bay Program into the existing expectations, advancing 50 Creeks or Rivers structure of the State Coastal Conservancy meant that it could start funding projects right away. hundreds of projects and Conservancy Funding: $316,879,524 Over the past fifteen years, the Bay Program has implemented voter-approved state bond empowering citizens and Matching Funds: $1,029,286,584 measures for clean water and safe parks, namely Propositions 12, 40, 50 and 84. These essential local agencies to work funds have been granted to local non-profits towards a sustainable and public agencies to undertake projects and have been used by the Bay Program to manage Bay Area.” The Conservancy received $63 million in grants projects. for Bay Area projects over the past 15 years The Conservancy works in each of the Bay Area’s nine counties on regionally significant
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