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October 29, 2021

Levee Breached on Purpose in Martinez to Restore Pacheco Marsh

Jocelyn Moran reports on crews restoring the Pacheco Marsh by breaching a levee (10-29-2021)
October 29, 2021

East Bay levee breached after 100-year closure in effort to restore rare wildlife to marshland

 PACHECO, Calif. (KGO) — A long abandoned marshland is back up and running in the East Bay as part of a larger effort to restore […]
October 29, 2021

232-acre East Bay tidal marsh restoration complete

MARTINEZ, Calif. – The East Bay is getting a new environmental playground as a project, decades in the making, by completing the last major task to turn it […]
October 13, 2021

Dramatic Levee Breach Is Major Milestone in $24.5 Million Restoration of Pacheco Marsh and Lower Walnut Creek

  MEDIA ALERT Pacheco Marsh Levee Breach October 29, 2021,  9 am Location:  Pacheco Marsh,  2501 Waterfront Rd, Martinez, CA 94533 Martinez, CA — John Muir […]
June 7, 2021

Donor Spotlight: Jan Berckefeldt

April 12, 2021

Former foster youth regenerate farm, healing the land and themselves

  PITTSBURG, Calif. — Underneath a blanket of powerlines, a stretch of forgotten land is coming back to life. “Being outside and out in nature is […]
March 26, 2021

Teens + Nature

Teenagers feel less connected to nature than children and adults, study finds A widely publicized survey of over 2,000 people in the United Kingdom asked respondents […]
January 8, 2021

East Bay urban farm helps foster youths find purpose, community

Transitioning foster youths work in new John Muir Land Trust farm in western Pittsburg Yahel Moreno didn’t consider himself an outdoors type of person. But last […]
January 3, 2021

Contra Costa Co. Family Farm Grows Produce, Sense Of Community

PITTSBURG, CA — Mary Cherry was once in foster care, and later spent five years working on a farm. When the chance to do that again […]
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