Eden Landing Ecological Reserve

Eden Landing Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve in Hayward and Union City, California, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. The reserve is managed by the California Department of Fish and Game, and comprises 5,040 acres of former industrial salt ponds now used as a low salinity waterbird habitat.^[1][2] It lies between the Hayward Regional Shoreline, Alameda Creek Regional Trail, and the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge, and is adjacent to the San Mateo – Hayward Bridge, across which lies the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center.^[3] Some waterfowl hunting is periodically permitted.^[4]

The Bay Area environmental organization Save The Bay is working to restore 600 acres of the land to salt marshes. To date, 5,000 pounds of debris have been removed, and three salt pond levees have been breached, to allow bay water to reenter and begin the restoration process.^[5] This is part of the organization's South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project, which is the largest salt pond restoration project on the west coast of the United States.^[6]

References

See also

• List of California Department of Fish and Game protected areas
• Eden Landing, local former community from which its name is derived

External links

• Eden Landing Ecological Reserve at the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) website (minimal content as of 08/2011)
• Eden Landing Ecological Reserve at Bay Nature website
• Eden Landing Salt Pond Restoration Project website
• South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project website
• "Eden Landing Ecological Reserve and the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project: A View of the Alameda Creek Watershed from Its Intersection with the SF Bay", John Krause, CDFG, 2008