The Spring 2021 Issue of Tide Rising, our quarterly newsletter, is here

by Ceal Craig

Tide Rising: Volume 2, Issue 3, Spring 2021.

The San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society is happy to publish the latest issue of its digital newsletter, Tide Rising: Volume 2, Issue 3, Spring 2021. This issue’s theme is Endangered & Threatened Species.

In this issue:

• Learn what our Friends group can do to advocate for the endangered and threatened species on our Refuge Complex. Find ideas and read an interview with the President of CORFA (Coalition of Refuge Friends & Advocates).
• See how the Veterans Affairs (VA) Alameda Point staff and volunteers pivoted during the pandemic supporting the least tern, an endangered species on our Refuge. Not quite business as usual.
• Discover whether a new species has been found on the Antioch Dunes NWR? Learn more about the evening primrose, Clade X.
• Volunteers in FY2020: they are the lifeblood of the Refuge Complex. Last year and a pandemic didn’t stop our USFWS volunteers.
• Take a look at the photographs galore this issue!

Readers' feedback:
Based on readers feedback, you will see a new format for the email version of the newsletter. A short synopsis will be in this email with a photo or two, with an Acrobat .pdf file LINK with the FULL story. This should help you read the whole newsletter in brief, and dive into stories that interest you more easily.

Editors: Ceal Craig, PhD; Renee Fitzsimons
Contributors: Ceal Craig, Mary Deschene, Renee Fitzsimons (SFBWS). Louis Terrezas (USFWS), Meg Marriott (USFWS), Paul Mueller (USFWS), Susan Euing (USFWS).
Photographers: Ambarish Goswami, Ceal Craig, Cindy Roessler, Joanne Ong, Louis Terrazas, Say Zhee Lim, S. Euing, USFWS, USGS.

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See previous issues of the newsletter, Tide Rising, for articles about animals, habitats, restoration efforts, people (volunteers and staff), research, and Society efforts. The newsletter is sent quarterly using Constant Contact via email if you have signed up for it. In addition, you will be able to download a printable PDF file from the Society website.

In each issue, we will share information from other partners as well as new ideas and opportunities for partnerships. Look for articles from our sister Friends organization, Friends of the San Pablo Bay NWR, highlighting volunteers and FWS staff, as well as providing information about advocacy.

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Cecilia (Ceal) D. Craig, PhD
Member, SFBWS Board of Directors