Featured Story
The Mercury News
May 28, 2025
MARTINEZ — It took $25 million and 22 years to restore the 122 acres of Pacheco Marsh, the historic saltwater marshland just northeast of downtown Martinez, where Walnut Creek flows into the Carquinez Strait.
Now, kayakers paddle through tidal currents past native wildflowers and coyote brush, while young families and seniors plod along nearly 2.5 miles of flat, paved trails and pedestrian bridges while migratory birds fly overhead – a peculiar juxtaposition of concrete, steam and steel on the horizon from the first Bay Delta project stewarded by the John Muir Land Trust.
