New in Estuary News: Choice Mountain Parcels Help Preserve the Bay

How is the bay connected with the hills and the mountains that surround it? Through creeks and streams, most of which begin as rainfall in the upper watershed. While these flows are heavily managed today, with reservoirs, weirs, flood-control channels, and other elements of modern infrastructure intervening, in some key ways they still perform much as they always have, delivering freshwater to the bay's estuaries while providing valuable aquatic and riparian habitat along the way. as they twist and tumble downstream.
All of which is to day that upper-watershed lands ringing the bay are valuable not only in and of themselves, but also because of their broader function in regional ecosystems -- which explains why they represent a key target for conservation groups throughout the greater Bay Area.
Read more in my latest article for Estuary News.