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Trading Salt Ponds for Salt Marshes

An initiative underway on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay would bring back tens of thousands of acres of wetlands that now serve as commercial salt ponds.

Fertile wetlands once lined the southern shore of the San Francisco Bay. But these wetlands have since been replaced by ponds used to harvest salt. Now, a collaborative effort to bring back tens of thousands of acres of those original marshes is underway. Andrea Kissack reports.