Estuary Pearls is published by the San Francisco Estuary Partnership. In this month’s edition: Beaver dams may offer wildfire protection to western watersheds, in addition to providing better-known benefits such as groundwater recharge, wetland and habitat creation, and riparian restoration. Smack in the middle of the unprecedented disruption of normal life brought on by the Covid-19 crisis comes a new report detailing the challenges sea level rise might bring to the Bay region without proactive planning. A new project should dramatically … Continue reading ESTUARY PEARLS: Beaver dams, new sea level rise report, improving conditions for endangered steelhead trout, a resurgence of dinoflagellates, and more …