SF State’s Romberg Tiburon Center to lead California’s largest reserve

WHAT:
Dedication of the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (SF Bay NERR), California’s newest and largest National Estuarine Research Reserve, Friday, Oct. 10, at San Francisco State University’s Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies.

Established to restore tidal marshes and protect estuarine habitats, the Reserve is comprised of two sites: China Camp State Park in San Rafael (1,640 acres in Marin County) and the Rush Ranch Open Space Preserve (2,070 acres in Solano County). The Reserve is the 26th in the national federal-state partnership and the largest of the three NERR sites in California. It is managed by and headquartered at the University’s Romberg Tiburon Center.

The SF Bay NERR is a partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), California Department of Parks and Recreation, Solano Land Trust and San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission that operates in conjunction with local communities and regional groups.

WHO:
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey; Eldon Hout, NOAA director of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management; Thomas R. Lindberg, superintendent, Marin Sector of California State Parks; Jim Ball, Solano Land Trust executive director; Will Travis, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission; Robert A. Corrigan, SFSU president; Alissa Arp, director of the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies; and Jaime C. Kooser, manager of the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

WHEN:
1:30-3:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 10, 2003