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The San Francisco Estuary Partnership (or simply the Partnership) is one of the 28 National Estuary Programs created in the 1987 Amendments to the Clean Water Act.The Partnership is a non-regulatory federal-state-local collaboration working to restore water quality and manage the natural resources of the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta estuary.
[a] The marsh land is part of a tidal estuary, and subject to tidal ebb and flood. The marsh is home to many species of birds and other wildlife, and is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers between Martinez and Suisun City, California and several other smaller, local watersheds.
Part of the land area designated as Medway Estuary and Marshes SSSI is owned by the Church Commissioners [6]. This site is internationally important for its wintering birds, and nationally important for its breeding birds. It is also has an outstanding flora, such as the nationally rare oak-leaved goosefoot and the nationally scarce slender ...
South Thames Estuary and Marshes is a 5,289-hectare (13,070-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches between Gravesend and the mouth of the River Medway in Kent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Part of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, [ 3 ] and part is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve. [ 4 ]
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission is a NOAA coastal zone managing agency within the San Francisco Estuary that partners with the reserve on coastal resilience and planning. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was involved in the South Bay during the reserve's planning phase.
San Pablo Bay, shown with San Francisco Bay San Pablo Bay and the Carquinez Strait Panorama of San Pablo Bay from Wildcat Mountain near Sears Point in Sonoma County. San Pablo Bay is a tidal estuary that forms the northern extension of the San Francisco Bay in the East Bay and North Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California.
It also supports a corresponding abundance of other river-dependent wildlife, especially birds. The river is profoundly influenced by the ocean's tides for over half its length, creating an estuary which stretches 153 miles (246 km) and includes a wide range of wetland habitats.