Massive earth-moving project re-creates wetlands as they were 60 years ago

Driven by a high tide, water from Tomales Bay now flows onto a pasture skirting Point Reyes Station, almost 2 miles past where a levee had once been constructed.

The water moves in long fingers, overflowing the meandering path of what Lagunitas and Tomasini creeks looked like six decades ago, before a series of levees, roads and ditches were built on the Giacomini dairy.

"A lot of that pasture vegetation will die off, and the wetlands vegetation will come back," said Mark Cederborg of Hanford Applied Restoration & Conservation, the Sonoma company that is reconstructing the marsh.

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