By Katie Harrington, Bay Nature
Wildlife in the San Francisco Bay can be elusive. If it is not flapping quickly by, it is diving for a meal, cruising the ocean floor or intermittently surfacing to breathe. In other words, it can be hard to take a closer look — that is, until you wade into an eelgrass meadow and literally feel the wildlife brush against your legs.
Beginning this summer, there will be more of those meadows to visit. In June, Kathy Boyer, an associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University’s Romberg Tiburon Center, began a nine-year effort to restore 70 acres of Zostera marina, the native eelgrass in the bay. The work is funded by settlement money from the Cosco Busan oil spill that emptied 58,000 gallons into the bay in 2007.
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