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Marin Baylands Advocates
Marin Baylands Advocates (MBA) is an all-volunteer group of environmentalists in Marin County, California. We are dedicated to permanently protecting baylands along the eastern shoreline of Marin County, bordering San Pablo and San Francisco Bays.
Together with our fiduciary agent, the Marin Audubon Society, we achieve our goals by raising funds from individuals, foundations, and public agencies to acquire baylands at risk of being lost because they are in private ownership, and to educate decision-makers and the public about the value of baylands.
Since our inception in the mid-1990s, Marin Baylands Advocates has saved or helped to save 15 bayland properties totaling more than 2,000 acres, plus 27 small wetland and associated upland properties on which owners had defaulted on property taxes.
Permanently protected bayland habitat is a gift for all of us, one that will live on to benefit Marin's wildlife and human residents as well as people from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Our work will enable you and all future generations to enjoy the wildlife, open space, and views, as well as environmental benefits, including clean air, clean water, and floodwater retention.
We invite you to learn more about the baylands by exploring our successes, our current projects, our work, and our goals for the future. Please join us in this urgent - and wonderful - effort to save Marin County's Baylands.
SUCCESS!!!
With the help of a State Coasal Consevancy grant, substantial contributions from our Marin Baylands community in response to our annual appeal focusing on this acquisition, Marin Audubon Society, and a generous grant from the Maureen Groper estate, we recently closed escrow on the Greater Bahia Baylands Expansion Project.
These diked baylands, totaling 323.28 acres, are former tidal marsh. The acquisition, two parcels at the center of a corridor of tidal marshes along the Petaluma River, will enable Marin Audubon to restore the site to tidal marsh habitat. Extending from the Petaluma Marsh, the largest marsh in California that has never been diked, to the mouth of the Petaluma River, the property will fill a gap in this vital marsh corridor.
Once restored, new habitat will again support native plants, and include vegetative cover for endangered Ridgway Rails, California Black Rails and other species to protect them from predators.
Click here for more information about this project.
Click here for more information on Acquisitions completed to date.
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