On: Salt Ponds of the San Francisco Bay

[542458]

Cool! What was the motivation for the restoration project? Like, were the salt ponds causing some sort of environmental damage, or was the smell hurting property values, or something else?

[thenewwazoo → 542458]

There's a big push to restore the wetlands to something approaching their pre-industrial state, which were salt marshes housing many species and benefiting the ecology of the area.

[azinman2 → thenewwazoo]

But did they not make money any more? Why did cargill care?

[andrewbinstock → 542458]

What made the Bay such an especially good place for getting salt?

[Gibbon1 → andrewbinstock]

It's sunny and doesn't rain much/at all for 8-9 months out of the year. And the tidal flats are protected because they are inside the bay.