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| Founded | 1961 (1961)[1][2] |
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| Founder | Kay Kerr, Sylvia McLaughlin and Esther Gulick[1][2] |
| Type | Non-profit 501(c)(3) |
| Focus | Open space preservation,Natural habitat restoration,Environmental justice |
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Area served | San Francisco Bay Area |
| Members | 25,000[2] |
Key people | Executive Director David Lewis[3] |
| Website | savesfbay |
Formerly called | Save San Francisco Bay Association |
Save the Bay is anonprofit organization dedicated to preservingSan Francisco Bay and relatedestuarine habitat areas. It was founded byCatherine Kerr,Sylvia McLaughlin, andEsther Gulick in 1961.
The organization aims to protect thebay from development andland reclamation by encouraging restoration to a natural state, allowing habitats such assalt flats to reform.[4]
The organization was founded in 1961 as theSave San Francisco Bay Association by three women —Sylvia McLaughlin, Kay Kerr, andEsther Gulick — and originally began as alobby group. In 1965, statelegislation established theSan Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission as astate agency, which the organization supported. The organization works to protect the wildlife of the Bay Area and quality of the large inland body of water.[1][5] Save The Bay worked to prevent the destruction ofSan Bruno Mountain to fill 27 miles (44km) of theSan Mateo County shoreline.[1] This work has been noted as the first successfulconservation effort in anurban area.[1]
The organization's work led to the creation of theBay Conservation and Development Commission, which was later used as a blueprint for other government commissions such as theTahoe Regional Planning Agency,California Coastal Commission, andDelta Stewardship Council.[1]
The organization has also pushed forplastic bag bans throughout the entire region. It includes strong support for strengthening the San Francisco plastic bag ban in 2011, which banned allretailers from giving out bags made out ofnon-biodegradable materials.[6] Save The Bay supported the 2012San Jose, California, ban on plastic bags.[7]
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