Throughout her career in the U.S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein was a champion for the environment and conservation of California's wild places.
In 2003, Feinstein helped negotiate the purchase of thousands of acres of salt ponds from Cargill on the San Francisco Bay with the goal of restoring them to tidal wetland.
"This wouldn't have happened without her. She was the primary driving force behind the acquisition of the 15,000 acres of salt ponds from Cargill," said Dave Halsing, executive project manager of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project.It's the largest tidal wetland restoration project on the West Coast, according to the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project's website.
The first completed part of the project came in September 2010 in East Palo Alto. Feinstein was there celebrating the accomplishment."This is a remarkable beginning. It is perhaps the most costly of all because of various things that had to be accomplished here and were accomplished," Feinstein said.In 1997, Feinstein helped inaugurate the annual Lake Tahoe Summit, a partnership between Nevada and California to keep the lake healthy and forests maintained.
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