1/26, Sunday, 3:30-5pm.
San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society hosts author and reseacher Cecilia D Craig at
Don Edwards NWR Environmental Education Center who gave a talk on Drawbrdge and the cumminity at Drawbridge station over South Bay salt ponds.
I arrived a few minutes late. The building was locked. Had to bang on the door to be let in, even though no light inside to indicate of anything live.
The talk is interesting, maybe more to the locals.
In the late 1800s - early 1900s, few families lived here in cabins on stilts.
Winter time, more came to hunt ducks.
No sewage system, no garbage collection. Twice a day, the tide came in and swept away the refuse.
The community rely on well water, fish and duck for food.
In the 1900s, the aquafer water level started to deplete, eventually, salt water went in.
The US Fish and Wildlife Refuge bought out most lands, and converted to a water treatment.
Now, trying to convert it back to marsh.
After the talk, walked a bit over the marsh. However, due to the work on raising the dyke, the loop was blocked.
Nice sunset. Low water level, not as many birds as I expected. Quite a bit of
black necked stilts.
1/26, Sunday, 3:30-5pm. San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society hosts author and reseacher Cecilia D Craig at Don Edwards NWR Environmental Education Center who gave a talk on Drawbrdge and the cumminity at Drawbridge station over South Bay salt ponds.
I arrived a few minutes late. The building was locked. Had to bang on the door to be let in, even though no light inside to indicate of anything live.
The talk is interesting, maybe more to the locals.
In the late 1800s - early 1900s, few families lived here in cabins on stilts.
Winter time, more came to hunt ducks.
No sewage system, no garbage collection. Twice a day, the tide came in and swept away the refuse.
The community rely on well water, fish and duck for food.
In the 1900s, the aquafer water level started to deplete, eventually, salt water went in.
The US Fish and Wildlife Refuge bought out most lands, and converted to a water treatment.
Now, trying to convert it back to marsh.
After the talk, walked a bit over the marsh. However, due to the work on raising the dyke, the loop was blocked.
Nice sunset. Low water level, not as many birds as I expected. Quite a bit of black necked stilts.
