By Mallory Pickett, Bay Nature
The Pier 94 salt marsh is located at the end of a wide road with dirt piled high on either side, past two cement plants and a truck-weighing station. It does not seem like ideal bird habitat. From the road, on a gray Saturday morning in November, the area looks abandoned and barren. But there are signs of life: two Canada geese nestled in front of some dirt mounds and Noreen Weeden, in a windbreaker and baseball cap, preparing for a day of restoration. She is waiting for a crew of new volunteers, who will spend this Saturday morning with her, the dirt and the birds.
Weeden is the volunteer coordinator for the Golden Gate Audubon Society. Pier 94, in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood on the southern side of the Islais Creek outlet, used to be an industrial dump site. Department stores and anyone else with trash would leave their waste here, everything from furniture to tires, right on the edge of the water.
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