Existing Regional Collaborations

Existing Regional Collaborative Efforts

San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program — by BC Capps — last modified 2007-02-18 15:55

The San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy helps public agencies and private nonprofit organizations preserve open space, protect and restore fish and wildlife habitat, promote the use of habitat restoration projects for environmental education, provide public access to open space areas, and restore urban waterfronts in the nine Bay Area counties.

Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan — by BC Capps — last modified 2007-02-18 15:57

Overseen by the San Francisco Estuary Project, the CCMP presents a blueprint of 145 specific actions to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Bay and Delta. It seeks to achieve high standards of water quality; to maintain an appropriate indigenous population of fish, shellfish and wildlife; to support recreational activities; and to protect the beneficial uses of the Estuary.

Integrated Regional Water Management Plan — by BC Capps — last modified 2007-02-18 16:01

The Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (Bay Area IRWMP) is a multi-stakeholder, nine-county effort to coordinate a strategic approach to regional water resources management. The Plan will build on water resources needs and planning strategies identified throughout the Bay Area, leveraging regional cooperation to more effectively address the needs identified.

Upland Habitat Goals Project — by BC Capps — last modified 2007-02-19 06:06

The San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project is a science-based process that will use existing and new data supplemented by expert opinion to recommend the types, amounts and distribution of upland habitats, linkages, compatible uses and the ecological processes needed to sustain diverse and healthy communities of plant, fish and wildlife resources in the nine-county Bay Area.

Bay Area Stream Goals Project — by BC Capps — last modified 2007-02-18 15:46

The Stream Goals Project is focused on sustaining the beneficial uses of our rivers, streams, springs, and related wetlands. The central tenets are that 1) local communities and agencies would benefit from a scientifically based, long-term, common vision of healthy streams; and 2) state and regional agencies would benefit from a standard process to develop stream health goals and to monitor progress toward achieving those goals.

Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program — by BC Capps — last modified 2007-02-18 15:33

SWAMP is a statewide monitoring effort designed to assess the conditions of surface waters throughout the state of California. The program is administered by the State Water Board. Responsibility for implementation of monitoring activities resides with the nine Regional Water Quality Control Boards that have jurisdiction over their specific geographical areas of the state. Monitoring is conducted in SWAMP through the Department of Fish and Game and U.S. Geological Survey master contracts and local Regional Boards monitoring contracts.

Bay Area Conservation Commons — by BC Capps — last modified 2007-02-19 06:05

The San Francisco Bay Area Conservation Commons is regional environmental information made available through a distributed digital library network, as well as the shared resources, policies, and expertise that make it possible. Participation in the Commons at all levels is open to all regional organizations. Through the use of published open specifications, anyone may contribute data for propagation into multiple databases as well as harvest data for analysis purposes or to aggregate into an information system.