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New Flight Pattern for Hamilton

It's birds, not a planes landing at Hamilton.

The Hamilton Wetlands Restoration Project has been under way since 2007 and will continue until 2014 when the levees are breached. At that point the project will include 2,600 acres of tidal wetlands.

Why is it project so environmentally important? The project will restore the natural beauty of the tidal wetlands as part of the San Francisco Bay. That part of eastern Novato was all tidal wetlands until the early 1800s, when dikes were built to create farmland. In 1930s farmers were displaced by the new U.S. Army airfield.

According to the project's official website, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the lead federal agency on the work being done and the California State Coastal Conservancy is the local sponsor. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission serves as a collaborating partner on the project.

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After many years of construction and dredging sediment from the bay, you can walk the Bay Trail and see migratory birds creating their nests as you walk along the Bay Trail. The parched land naturally floods in the winter, and the birds flock back in the summer to the pools already forming.

Take a break and explore this Bay Trail today!

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