Latest Coastal Conservancy News

Coastal Conservancy Awards 11 Climate Ready Project Implementation Grants (Posted March 27, 2015)

In January 2015 the Coastal Conservancy awarded more than $2 million for 11 competitively selected projects to help California adapt to climate change. The funding came from the second grant round of the Climate Ready program, designed to help California’s coastal and San Francisco Bay Area communities prepare for rising seas, drought, warming temperatures, and […]

Online Wheelchair Rider’s Guide Now Covers All of California’s Coast

A Wheelchair Rider’s Guide to the California Coast (www.wheelingcalscoast.org/) has been expanded to include the entire coastline of California and the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. Wheelchair-accessible sites in the South Coast, North Coast, and San Francisco Bay Area were recently added to the website, which was launched in 2010.

Strategic Plan Update (Posted March 12, 2015)

The Coastal Conservancy has updated its Strategic Plan to include priorities for Proposition 1 (Water Bond) expenditure, to update our Climate Change objectives and to address the newly created Santa Ana River Conservancy Program. The Strategic Plan update is available here.

Proposition 1: Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Posted February 2, 2015)

Development of Prop 1 Guidelines: The Coastal Conservancy has developed draft project solicitation and evaluation guidelines for water bond implementation. The public is encouraged to review and comment on these draft guidelines. Written comments should be emailed to: comments@scc.ca.gov or mailed to: The Coastal Conservancy 1330 Broadway #1300 Oakland, CA 94612. The deadline for comments […]

Safeguard our Coast Day (Posted August 13, 2014)

Thanks to State Senator Mark Leno and the Natural Resources Defense Council, a state resolution (SJR 20) passed through the legislature in August of 2014 that salutes the 50th anniversary of the state’s leadership and innovation in coastal planning and management and proclaims February 16, 2015, and each third Monday in February thereafter as “Safeguard […]

Final Mitigated Negative Declaration, Initial Study/Environmental Assessment for Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge Thin-layer Salt Marsh Sediment Augmentation Pilot Project (Posted August 7, 2014)

Link to Final Mitigated Negative Declaration CEQA document. Link to Final Initial Study/Environmental Assessment CEQA document.

Garrapata State Beach Coastal Trail, Big Sur (Posted May 30, 2014)

  With funding from the Coastal Conservancy, State Park and California Conservation Corps trail crews are installing a new footbridge and repairing connecting trails in Garrapata State Park in northern Big Sur, May 20, 2014.  

Hamilton Wetlands Restored! (Posted April 28, 2014)

On Friday, April 25, 2014, the Coastal Conservancy and Corps of Engineers took the final step in the restoration of Hamilton Airfield to tidal marsh habitat, breaching the levee that has separated Hamilton from the Bay for over a century. 

The Economic Case for Restoring Coastal Ecosystems (Posted April 14, 2014)

A new report by the Center for American Progress and OXFAM America found that investing in coastal restoration can be highly cost effective.

The Island that Came in from the Cold (Posted March 11, 2014)

For years, Skaggs Island was a tantalizing blank in the map of San Pablo Bay wetlands restoration. Two-thirds of it was owned by the US Navy, which had operated a top- secret listening post there; the rest was privately-owned farmland, where the Haire family grew oat hay. Converting any of the 4,400 acres back to […]