The objective of our Hidden Ecologies Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Researve Drawbridge Site Study is to follow Salt Marsh evolution in two salt ponds in the Drawbridge area. The levees impounding salt water in these ponds were breached in the spring of 2006. Development of a healthy Salt Marsh depends [...]

We staged another expedition to Drawbridge on Sunday. It was an abnormally high tide and we wanted to see the inundation of the newly-opened salt ponds. On the way out we stopped at the weeps along the railroad tracks to photograph and take some samples.

Jungmoo, a graduate student at CAL, takes a close look at [...]

The New Chicago Marsh is a non-tidal salt marsh behind the Environmental Education Center of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. If you go out the back of the Environmental Education Center, you will find yourself on New Chicago Marsh Boardwalk.

My son Charlie Benton and I hiked out to Drawbridge on Sunday and I was able to take my first aerial photographs thereabouts. Drawbridge is an abandonded town out in the South Bay wetlands. For background information take a look at the US Fish & Wildlife Service brochure on Drawbridge (lovely cover shot).

Trains appear suddenly [...]

A week or so ago Wayne Lanier and I took a hike out to Drawbridge. Starting at the Alviso Marina, we stopped in several places where Wayne took microbiological samples and I shot aerial photographs. I headed back down to Drawbridge on Sunday with my son Charlie Benton and this time I collected a few [...]