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Wetland Habitat Restoration; a collaborative pond project

    A Pond Collaboration for Wetland Habitat Restoration

    A collaboration between Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS/USDA), US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), The Hawkes Family, and wildfarmers/spif.

    wetland habitat restoration

          Wetlands  are at a critical point. California has lost over 90% of it's wetlands.  The Central Valley of California extending north to south for over 450  miles has harbored most of the biodiversity for over a millenia. By the  1970's the Central Valley had lost over 90% of it's wetlands to  unsustainable agriculture and development. Since then the yearly losses  of wetlands in the valley have greatly reduced the availability of  wetlands. The Central Valley and the eastern rim of the coastal  mountains are a globally important bird area. Aquatic birds as well as  others migrate yearly from South America to the Arctic. They have to  stop to rest and refuel many times on that flight. The stop overs have  vanished. A million migratory birds die every year and the numbers are  increasing. Freshwater wetlands make up only 1% of the earth's surface  but they support over 10% of all the animals on earth. Fifty percent of  federally listed animals and 28% of plants depend on wetlands for  survival. In reality, most non marine wildlife depend on wetlands to  some degree.

    Why should we care? Landmark  studies have consistently linked human health to animal and plant  biodiversity the greatest of which are found in wetlands. A landmark  study on climate change in 2017 showed that nature can deliver at least  30% of emissions reductions needed by 2030 to prevent climate  catastrophe. Protecting and increasing biodiversity plays a crucial part  in increasing these emissions reductions.
    The health and lives of the human community are integrally linked to the health and survival of our wetlands and wildlands.

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    the pond project/wetland habitat restoration-a collaboration

    NRCS Engineers

    NRCS engineers Adriana Campagna and Mark Moehling spending a long day of surveying and staking out the wetland habitat restoration area at wildfarmers pond site.

    Learning Opportunity!

     Bigger is better? Not so. This little guy, a tiger salamander, shows us that the smallest beings, hidden from us in oak leaf litter or under water, the workers we don't see; make the biggest impact. The wildfarmers wetland habitat restoration is guided by the needs of the Tiger Salamander showing us the way to restore balance in a pond translating to balance in nature and restoring balance in our lives.

    Pre Construction Planning Meeting

    Wildfarmers Director of Operations, Tony Stork, the contractors, NRCS engineer; Mark Barnet, and USFWS biologist Shawn Milar; discussing the parameters of the pond and wetland habitat restoration.

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