When we enjoy local #Dungeness crab, we're tasting the North Bay, the Central Bay & the Pacific Ocean in each bite.

But today, these remarkable creatures face mounting threats 🦀

Read more in our executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh's latest column: https://baykeeper.org/column/shells-smiles-and-the-season-of-thanks/

Illustration: Fiorella Ikeue in collaboration with Baykeeper

#crab #crabbing #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #wildlife #baywildlife #thanksgiving

The Trump admin's newly proposed changes to the #CleanWaterAct would reduce or eliminate environmental protections in the Bay Area and across the U.S.

“This proposed rule could strip protections from the vast majority of wetlands in California, which are necessary to protect Bay Area communities from rising seas," as Baykeeper senior scientist Ian Wren said in a statement. "We can’t protect the Bay’s ecosystem and clean water if the law no longer recognizes the wetlands that make it possible."

#WOTUS #BayArea #SFBay #SanfranciscoBay #wetlands

Read more: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/epa-issues-proposed-clean-water-act-rollbacks-baykeeper-statement/

BREAKING: We're putting the Trump administration on legal notice for killing and harming winter-run Chinook #Salmon, Central Valley #Steelhead, and Green #Sturgeon in the Bay-Delta.

“The Bureau of Reclamation is blatantly violating the #EndangeredSpeciesAct and putting the Bay’s most iconic fish species at greater risk of extinction,” as our lead attorney Eric Buescher said. “There is simply no excuse for its actions or refusal to comply with the law."

Thanks to our great coalition partners at the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the River

Read more: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/environmental-groups-send-trump-administration-legal-notice-for-killing-endangered-species/

Illustration of a Central Valley Steelhead by Fiorella Ikeue

#endangeredspecies #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #fish #bureauofreclamation

Those of us in the greater Bay area and certainly people in Sonoma need to pay attention to this story. You don’t want a network state city in your county. You really don’t. We don’t need Ripple, Benioff or Horowitz or any of them from Silicon Valley, taking more power than they already have. The usurpation of local government through the back door of equipping police departments with their surveillance state is another concern.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/esmeralda-network-state-comes-to-sonoma-county-2/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

@MLNow

#sonomaCounty #california #sfbay

Madilynne Medina & Olivia Hebert: 'Solidarity melts #ICE': Photos of a defiant Dia de los Muertos in the Bay Area

#DiadelosMuertos #sfbay #SanFrancisco #Oakland #California #immigration #Solidarity
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-dia-de-los-muertos-political-21135504.php

Sometimes, the scariest things are what we *can't* see 😶‍🌫️

As our director Sejal Choksi-Chugh writes in her latest column, metal shredding pollution is a big problem - but we recently scored a major win to get the industry to clean up its act!

Learn more: https://baykeeper.org/column/graveyard-smash/

#waterpollution #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #heavymetals

The Bay Area is more than halfway to its goal of restoring 100,000 acres of tidal #wetlands, which are a natural buffer to floodwaters from #SeaLevelRise 🌊

The region now boasts 57,800 acres of restored tidal marsh!
https://www.kqed.org/science/1998966/rising-tides-drive-a-bay-area-push-to-bring-back-vanished-marshlands

#bayarea #marsh #marshlands #sfbay #sanfranciscobay

Join us for an inspiring conversation celebrating endurance, environmental stewardship & the power of women in water at Manny's in SF on 11/12 🏊‍♀️

Distance swimmer Michelle Goodwin will share her journey swimming the English channel in dialogue with Baykeeper board member Diane Walton, exploring the intersection of athletic achievement and environmental advocacy.

We hope to see you there!

#swimming #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #bayarea #openwaterswimming #swim

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/water-warriors-protecting-the-bay-one-stroke-at-a-time-tickets-1778791927539

It's #VoteEarlyDay! 🥳 San Francisco is so awesome that you've been able to return your election ballot for a couple of weeks already! (you cast yours, right? riiiiiiight?)

But tbh, the number of people who have returned their ballot return envelope without a signature is a big bummer.

#SanFrancisco #SFBA #SFBay #SFpol #SFElections #Vote #Democracy #GOTV #ElectionDay #Election2025 #VotingRights #VoteReady #EveryVoteCounts #BeAVoter #RegisterToVote #Proposition50 #Prop50 #SFvotes #CAvotes