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The lagoon is really a great place for
birders.

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Bolinas Lagoon is a big stopover spot

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along the Pacific Flyway.

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So we get a lot of great seabirds as well,

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pelicans, cormorants,

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and then we get a big harbor seal population as well.

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Not only do they come here to rest and haul out

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and protect themselves from the white sharks out there in Bolinas Bay

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but we get close to 200 pups that are born here every year as well.

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We are at Bolinas Lagoon

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which is an 1,100 acre estuary in West Marin

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just about 15 miles north of San Francisco.

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The lagoon was part of Greater Farallones National
Marine Sanctuary

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when it was dedicated in 1981.

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The sanctuary works really
closely with the National Park Service

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and local Marin County.

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Those three agencies manage the lagoon

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and as part of that management we work to
incorporate the community

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in pretty much everything we do.

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So there's a big combination of sort of human-induced impacts

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and then there's also
environmental impacts.

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There's a lot of local coastal towns that abut the lagoon.

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The lagoon itself has a hardened shoreline

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because of highway 1 and
because of those towns.

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It's pretty restricted.

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So when you're talking about
climate change, sea level rise,

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increased storm surge, flooding,

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the lagoon really
doesn't have anywhere to go

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and so a lot of the wildlife doesn't really have much
space to retreat as well.

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We're doing habitat restoration, invasive species
removal, living shorelines projects.

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We're doing some road removal and realignment of creeks

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to reestablish reconnectivity.

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And we're really folding in all of the
different public and local organizations

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so that they can be a part of the
process too.

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I think we've done a lot of great work over the last decade or so.

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We have a great partnership with all the different agencies.

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Our relationships with the community members are strengthening day in and day out.

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So I just want to continue on the great progress we're doing.

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So that's what a
lot of our projects are really focusing on.

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Giving the lagoon space to expand and
adapt to those changes

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and then allowing the wildlife to follow that.