Ninety percent — that’s how much of the Bay Area’s tidal wetlands have been lost to humanactivity in the last 150 years, according to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. From the development of factories and shipyards to encroachment...
AMERICAN CANYON, Calif. — The first thing that struck me on site was the contrast: an aging industrial building set against a working wetland that still behaved like a living system. A few feet beyond the fence line, tidal water moved through channels and tule stands....