Breon says one count found 140 different bird species along the creek in a single day. The valley's edges are still relatively undeveloped. For the time being, Alviso remains mostly marsh. Right now, Breon says, there is an opportunity to create a horseshoe ring of habitat that will cater to the frog and the butterfly as well as the steelhead and salmon that still trudge up the Guadalupe and Coyote rivers, a place where people can go to learn how to interact with the natural world instead of pushing it aside and fencing it in. Following are some of the species that we stand to lose if nothing is done.
Golf courses displace the once-thriving California tiger salamander.
The Chinook salmon finds its way to the Guadalupe River, barely. The California clapper rail dwindles because of shrinking habitat and a sly fox. Metro Publishing Inc. MetroActive is affiliated with the Boulevards Network .