released a resilient landscape vision for lower Novato Creek that incorporates habitat restoration actions into flood risk management. The vision, developed in coordination with a team of regional science experts, highlights opportunities for restoring and sustaining vital tidal wetland habitats around lower Novato Creek while supporting a
high level of flood protection under rising San Francisco Bay water level scenarios. It provides Marin County Flood Control & Conservation
District and other local partners with several “nature-based” adaption options that can benefit both habitat and people. A similar vision development effort is currently underway for lower Walnut Creek and
will be completed in Spring 2016. This work is part of the EPA-funded
Flood Control 2.0 project with support from the SFBJV provided through our design review program and workshop participation.
The Conservancy has released their Proposal Solicitation for the next round of Prop 1 grants. These grants fund
multi-benefit ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration projects. Priority project types include:
water sustainability improvements, anadromous fish habitat enhancement, wetland restoration and urban greening. For more information or an application visit their website.
JV HIGHLIGHTS
Our chance to fill you in on some of what we have been up to since our last Bulletin.
Our first Joint Venture Management Board meeting in 2016 took place on
January 26 at the Aquarium of the Bay in downtown San Francisco. We come together quarterly to report on our working committee activities and other partner project news, as well as receive their valuable input and guidance on
our annual workplan and other priorities for the months ahead. We are so grateful to all who serve on the Management Board and for their wealth of knowledge and expertise. Let this be a shout of gratitude to all! Thank you!
There will be a joint meeting of the Conservation Delivery and Science Steering Committees on March 17. The dates for Conservation Delivery meetings the remainder of the year are planned for: April 28, June 9, August 11, October 13
and December 8th – all meeting times are from 10:30-1:30. Anyone interested
in more information, should contact Sandra Scoggin.
And this is the time when our Government Affairs committee is busy making
plans for their visits to Washington DC in the months ahead.
Remembering two local heros
The Bay Area recently paid tribute to two environmental champions who left
their mark on Bay Area restoration.
movement working to protect San Francisco Bay. She was a co-founder of Save the Bay and in the words of Executive Director David Lewis – “The fact that we still have a bay today is due in large part to Sylvia’s leadership in a time when there weren’t environmental leaders and there certainly weren’t women leading that kind of an effort.” You can read more about Sylvia and her legacy on the Save the Bay website.
Former Democratic Congressman Don Edwards
passed at the age of 100 in October, and was
celebrated in several memorials including one just
last week. The Congressman was instrumental in working with local citizens and Congress to create
the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge,
later renamed after him. Florence La Riviere,
another staunch early environmentalist, shared
her thoughts on him in a recollection, including this:
“Mr. Edwards’ living legacy is the marshes of San Francisco Bay, the wildlife that inhabits them,
clean air, water and places of serenity for the
human population”
The Alameda Fish & Game Commission encourages applications relating to activities that protect and conserve fish and wildlife, including improvement of fish and wildlife
habitat, public education about fish and wildlife conservation,
and scientific fish & wildlife research in Alameda County for these funds.
The California Watershed Protection Fund supports projects designed to
benefit the water quality of many of California’s watersheds and their
ecosystems.
The NAWCA program provides matching grants to wetlands conservation
projects in the United States, Canada, and Mexico and requires coordination
well in advance of the due date with SFBJV Coordinator Beth Huning.
$760,000 of funding is still available for this grant program and the RFP has
been extended until February 18. A Q&A session will be held at 1:30 pm on
Jan. 12, 2016 for those interested. More information about this grant can
be found on our website or theirs.
Ongoing Grants
Many of our funding source links have no deadlines, are cyclical or ongoing,
please visit our grants page for more information.
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