The SFBJV has undergone many transformations since August 2023, with a new Coordinator, Management Board Chair & Vice Chair, and 12 new Management Board members. The Management Board guides the work of the JV, ensuring that our partnership is achieving the 2022 Implementation Strategy goals. We are incredibly grateful for the support and leadership from the JV Management Board. 

Learn more about our newest Management Board members and why they are excited to join the Board and how they spend their time in the Bay Area.

Meet the new JV Project Tracking Technician:

Emma Railey



Emma (she/they) is a recent graduate from an International Master program in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRsea), where she studied marine habitat restoration and completed her thesis on seagrass transplantation in southern Portugal. Originally from the East Coast, she is thrilled to be making her home in the Bay and connecting with SFBJV partners doing wonderful conservation and restoration work in the area.

Emma is looking forward to her work helping to maintain Project Tracker this summer and is excited by the potential of technology to help people accomplish their conservation goals. Emma loves team sports and is playing in an ultimate frisbee league this summer.

Feature your work in a JV newsletter!

Do you want to feature a project or people that are doing great environmental work around the Bay and surrounding upland habitats?

Contact our Policy & Communications Coordinator Nikki for more information.

Three JV partners - Rebecca Schwartz Lesberg, Casey Skinner, and Julian Wood - were quoted in Bay Nature magazine this month about their work to restore Richardson Bay eelgrass meadows. The detailed article documents the many-years the region has worked to make this process more equitable as the anchor-out era comes to a close in Sausalito. Photo credit: Audubon CA

• Several important achievements for the Land Back and Tribal Nature Based Solutions Projects were made this past month including the return of over 38,000 acres of ancestral land to tribal stewardship. In early April, the state awarded $107M for 33 Tribal projects that will help bring CA closer to its 30x30 goals.

• Justice Outside and the Lawrence Hall of Science Center for Environmental Learning announce the Network Leaders 2024 Application. The Network for Network Leaders is recruiting a new cohort of aspiring and current network leaders of emerging or newly established regional and/or statewide networks that are centered around connecting people to the outdoors in meaningful ways. Apply by July 11.

• Explore the new DEI guidebook for Conservation Professionals from Soil & Water Conservation Society.

This report, which includes updated sea level scenarios and policy recommendations, serves as the 2024 update to the 2018 California Sea Level Rise Guidance.

It will support state and local action to assess vulnerability to rising seas and climate-driven flooding and the creation of adaptation plans and projects that build resilience into the future. 

SediMatch is a tool that matches dirt brokers and dredgers to the restoration and conservation community. Through an online portal you can see who's giving away materials and who needs materials for wetland restoration.



Help us get our first match and share this tool with partners!

It is an election year which means you can make a big difference in the outcome of legislative priorities or by providing feedback on important environmental priorities. See below for calls to action from the Power in Nature Coalition and other partners.

• Help protect statewide 30x30 funding - Contact your State Assembly member and Senator directly using the following three key messages: 1) Support proposal to keep funding the Wildlife Conservation Board; 2) Oppose proposal to shift $45M from the Habitat Conservation Fund to General Fund; 3) Pass a statewide Climate Bond now.

• Submit comments on the California Climate Adaptation Strategy through July 12. Email comments directly to climate resilience.

• Bay Nature BioBlitz - June 29

• Community Clean-Up in Antioch (Email Devanie White) (Contra Costa RCD) - July 7th

• Volunteers needed at Don Edwards NWR Fremont Visitor Station (Email Mary Deschene) - Ongoing

• Submit a Proposal for the Annual Climate Summit for San Mateo County - Aug 1

• Save the Date! Bay Adapt Summit (BCDC) - August 8

News

• Habitat Conservation Fund $ in Danger of Being Cut from State Budget

• AB 2875 Passes State Assembly - to Codify State Policy with No Net Loss of Wetlands

• California Biodiversity Network Launches New Workforce Stewardship Development Training Website

• California has the Highest Concentration of at Risk Plants in the Nation

• Ship Speed Reduction Lowers CA Coastal Air Pollution

Resources

• Explore the SFBJV List of Job Environmental Job Boards

• Biden Administration Ocean Climate Action & Recommend Steps

• Climate Smart Tools to Protect CA Freshwater Biodiversity

• Guide to Identifying Path to Efficient Permitting on the North-Central Coast