February 9, 2008 Clay Phillips La Mesa resident Clay Phillips, 53, is a superintendent for California State Parks and manager of the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, a federally protected wetland. Phillips says he hopes to promote public awareness about the Tijuana Estuary and encourage visitors to observe diverse wildlife in their natural salt-marsh

California Coastal Cleanup Day is the premier volunteer event focused on the marine environment in the country. In 2009, more than 80,500 volunteers worked together to collect more than 1,300,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from our beaches, lakes, and waterways. California Coastal Cleanup Day has been hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records