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Exploring California’s Marine Protected Areas: Point Arena State Marine Reserve and Point Arena State Marine Conservation Area
Occasionally warm and sunny, but more often cool and shrouded in a layer of fog, the Point Arena headland is a uniquely beautiful and ecologically important site on California’s northern coast. Located five miles north of its namesake town and 150 miles north of San Francisco, the waters off Point Arena are part of a […]
Exploring California’s Marine Protected Areas: Portuguese Ledge State Marine Conservation Area
Portuguese Ledge State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) lies four miles offshore of the Monterey peninsula in central California. The SMCA was established following the passage of the Marine Life Protection Act in 1999, which mandated the redesign of California’s marine protected area (MPA) system into a cohesive network. Currently, only 14 of the 124 state […]
South Coast Report on MPAs Makes a Splash
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> FEATURED IN MULTIPLE MEDIA OUTLETS Did you miss the launch of the State of the California South Coast report? Catch up on the media coverage and what California leaders are saying about the release of this important research establishing a baseline for marine protected area monitoring […]
Exploring California’s Marine Protected Areas: Año Nuevo State Marine Reserve
Año Nuevo’s unique environment led to the establishment of a land-based state park in 1985 and a marine protected area (MPA) in the adjacent ocean in 2007. Año Nuevo State Park is comprised of wetland marshes, rolling sand dunes, chaparral, coastal scrub and terrace prairie. Año Nuevo State Marine Reserve (SMR), the most recently established MPA (established […]