Please mark your calendars for the Mission Bay Planning Committee Meeting to support wetland restoration Tuesday, November 7th 6pm Mission Bay High School We know climate change is real. We are already seeing its impacts around our nation. Earlier this summer we saw the damage of climate change-fueled hurricanes, which we know wetlands help protect […]
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8/31/17 Project update
Hi there ReWild community, Just a quick update about what’s going on behind the scenes: Earlier this summer, San Diego Audubon released the final restoration alternatives for public review and comment. From there, the ReWild consultant team updated the plans based on that feedback, and began analyzing and evaluating the final restoration alternatives for things […]
Residents ask for more habitat restoration to safeguard environment and communities Misguided priorities for De Anza cove impacts simultaneous effort in northeast corner of bay SAN DIEGO, June 30, 2017 — San Diego Audubon says the City of San Diego’s De Anza Cove plans are driven by misguided priorities and therefore have a shortsighted approach to protecting Mission […]
By Kelsey Wadman, San Diego Audubon THANK YOU to the huge crowd of ReWild and Audubon supporters who came out to the City’s De Anza Revitalization plan meeting yesterday. What a win for birds and other wildlife to see all the ReWild shirts in the crowd who were there to support the restoration of wetlands […]
San Diego Audubon’s director of conservation, Rebecca Schwartz Lesberg, looks over Kendall-Frost Marsh on the north side of Mission Bay. (K.C. Alfred / San Diego Union-Tribune) By David Garrick, published on 5/2/17 by the Los Angeles Times San Diego’s iconic Mission Bay is mostly known for zooming jet skis, gliding sailboats, resort hotels and SeaWorld, […]
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Just released: draft final alternatives
Tonight, ReWild Mission Bay revealed its draft final three options for restoration for the North East corner of Mission Bay. Based on community suggestions from three public workshops earlier this year, the draft plans were presented to more than 140 community members to collect input one last time. The project — led by San Diego Audubon and […]
Mission Bay started its life as a 4,500 acre estuary complex at the mouth of the San Diego River. In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, the City of San Diego (along with state and federal agencies) set out to transform this “useless swamp” into the recreational destination we see today. At the time, the importance of […]
Our project teams spent the past few months reviewing public input, working with stakeholders, and gathering scientific feedback on the eight initial wetlands restoration alternatives released last fall (check them out here). We used all of this information, plus guidance from the Coastal Commission and the Mission Bay Park Master Plan, to create three updated final […]
11/29/16 Update: You can email your comments directly to the City via info@deanzarevitalizationplan.com, if you don’t want to participate in their full online engagement activity here. For suggestions on what to say, keep scrolling. The City of San Diego has a once in a lifetime chance to protect wetlands in Mission Bay when they “revitalize” De Anza […]
Earlier this year, we held two public workshops to gather ideas for how we can restore wetlands in northeast Mission Bay. Your ideas were used to create draft plans for protecting these threatened habitats, which were shared with our community on September 27, 2016. Download the initial draft alternatives here, and then go here to share […]