Balancing conservation and human and conservation needs in the San Francisco Estuary

Balancing conservation and human and conservation needs in the San Francisco Estuary

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The San Francisco Estuary stretches from the ridges of the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Golden Gate strait, where it meets the Pacific Ocean, an area bigger than the state of Georgia. At almost 60,000 square miles, it is one of the largest estuaries on the American continent. About eight million people live on or near the estuary’s shorelines. Hundreds of industries and thousands of wildlife species depend on the estuary, whose wetlands extend into several bays where freshwater and seawater mingle.

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