Join Greenbelt Alliance for a wetlands walk in the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Fremont, a Resilience Hotspot.
Created in 1972, the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge is comprised of many separate parcels of bay and marshlands on both sides of San Francisco Bay. The wildlife refuge provides critical habitat for many species of plants and birds.
We'll hike the LaRiviere, Newark Slough, and Tidelands trails to understand the critical importance of wetlands in providing climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.
Learn more about climate change resilience.
Our route includes some fascinating flora, fauna, and geology, including a strange parasitic marsh plant called "devil's sewing thread," graceful shorebirds, and outcrops of California's official state rock, serpentinite. The park's hilltop overlook area will provide us with a panoramic view of San Francisco Bay and the Newark shoreline
Newark is also a Greenbelt Alliance Bay Area Hotspot. Newark’s unique shoreline is a vital natural resource to protect the region from climate risks of sea level rise and flooding, which pose serious threats to local residents and industries.