Now hiring!
– Park Aide to work at both Border Field and Tijuana Estuary
– Interpreter to work at both Silver Strand SB and Tijuana Estuary.
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Deadline to apply for both positions: June 23, 2021
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Macy’s Museum Month is back for its 29th year this February. San Diegans and tourists are invited to enjoy 50% off admission at more than 40 San Diego Museum Council (SDMC) member museums the entire month.
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KING TIDE WALK
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 9 AM – 11 AM
Take a guided walk during one of the mornings of the January King Tides, the highest tides of the winter.
Snap the shore, see the future! Help document extreme high tides and winter storms. Anyone with a camera can participate!
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Learn about the process for closing beaches, and when it is safe to surf, swim and fish in the ocean.
Thursday, December 13th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
in the Tijuana Estuary Training Center
South San Diego Water Quality Workshop Read More »
Saturday, September 24th
at Border Field State Park from 9am to noon
National Public Lands Day (NPLD) is the nation’s largest, single-day volunteer event for public lands in the United States.
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CTP also offers field experiences by providing tours of the Reserve and surrounding areas. Tours provide a mechanism to feature and discuss issues that affect the Reserve and put relevant CTP programming into context through on-the-ground experience and visual highlighting of the unique setting and challenges, including transboundary coordination.
Once part of a natural wetland habitat, this 1.25 acre area of land was bought to become a real estate parcel. Even though it was later abandoned due to the site’s government protection, the ecosystem was severely degraded from its original state. Caltrans acquired this site and began their Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) designed to
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Constructed in the 1930s, these sewage ponds were used up until the 1960s, at which point they were abandoned. Over the next two decades, the ponds gradually filled in. Native salt marsh vegetation began to recolonize the edges, but it remained sparse and never the filled in ponds themselves. Thus, in the 1980s, access was
Sewage Ponds Restoration Read More »
Re-vegetation Results Overall the re-vegetation plots experienced significant insect and invasive plant infestation. The kelp amendments used to improve the soil quality were successful in decreasing bulk density and increasing the nitrogen content of the soil and improving the planting conditions. Over time, cord grass grew at the same rate in both the amended and
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History: Before being diked and filled for agricultural and military purposes, the model marsh site had been a fully functional salt marsh. These human activities in this area along with the natural sedimentation from storm events caused a decrease in the tidal flow and accelerated system degradation to this area. Overview: In order to re-create
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