In a move to restore vital marsh habitat and combat sea level rise, the East Bay Regional Park District has acquired 77-acres of the Hayward Regional Shoreline from the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District.
The property transfer this week furthers East Bay Parks’ vision to open the shoreline for public access along the San Francisco Bay Trail and revitalize the tidal marshes that existed there over a century ago, before industrial salt ponds peppered the San Francisco Bay shoreline.
“As sea levels rise, marshes should keep up with it, and so they can rise along with the sea levels, and they can continue providing those benefits decades out into the future,” said Dave Halsing, the executive project manager for the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project for the California State Coastal Conservancy. “What’s difficult is having to do it safely.”…