Brooks Island Salt Marsh

Brooks Island Salt Marsh is a wetlands area on Brooks Island in Brooks Island Regional Shoreline[1] a San Francisco Bay Area East Bay Regional Parks District preserve in Richmond, California. The marsh serves as important nesting ground for Caspian terns.[1] Harbor seals have a rookery on the nearby Castro Rocks. The marsh is off limits[1] to visitors all year long and access to the island is restricted to those with a special permit.[1]

Notes

  1. Brooks Island profile, East Bay Regional Parks District website, retrieved August 3, 2007


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