Cargill Salt San Francisco Bay 
“Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea.”
– Pythagoras (580 – 500 BC) |
For generations, salt makers have protected an abundance of wildlife in the colorful salt ponds along the south San Francisco Bay shoreline.
Using nature's power: the sun and wind, Cargill Salt crystallizes natural sea salt from the Bay waters, producing 650,000 tons annually of a vital commodity used in food, industry and agriculture.
The marriage of salt making and wildlife preservation was officially recognized in 1974, when the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, the first urban national wildlife refuge was created on Cargill's operating salt ponds. That bond was strengthened recently when Cargill Salt set the stage for the largest wetland restoration project on the West Coast - an area equal in size to Manhattan, with its sale and donation of 25 square miles of shoreline property to the public.
Salt ponds remain a vital habitat within the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Learn more about the pond colors and wildlife unique to the Salt Pond ecosystem.
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Restoration Project
Learn how Cargill's employees and technical advisors are assisting public agencies and non-profit organizations to recover San Francisco Bay's natural ecosystem through the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project.
Restored salt ponds are for the birds
(Oakland Tribune - 1/1/2007)
In the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, where scientists are monitoring wildlife as part of a huge salt-pond restoration project, the ducks started arriving in October from parts north...read more
