Home Donate Trailer Updates Overview The Series Production Team Underwriters Links

The California Hornblower embarked from Pier 3 in San Francisco carrying hundreds of Saving the Bay supporters on April 20, 2009. The cruise around the Bay, featured fine wine and local cuisine along with a celebration of ESA's 40 years of service to the area and a special screening of part of Saving the Bay: The Story of San Francisco Bay. Click here to go to the Updates page and view photos from the cruise as well as other projecnet news.

ESA, along with our partners, KQED and Hornblower Cruises and Events, hosted a fund raising event for Saving the Bay and to mark ESA’s 40 Years in restoring and balancing the environmental and community values of the Bay. This public education project is designed to raise awareness about San Francisco Bay — its evolution, how human activities have affected it, and what steps are being taken to plan its future including wetland restoration, increased public access and balancing the often competing needs within a fragile ecosystem. Play a part of the final completion of the documentary soon to be aired on KQED.

Donations are still needed and can be made by debit, credit card, or check directly at the Saving the Bay Donation Page. Checks should be made out to KQED, noting Saving the Bay, and can also be sent to: Ron Blatman, c/o ESA, 225 Bush Street, Suite 1700, San Francisco, CA 94104.

* * * * * * *

Saving the Bay, narrated by Robert Redford, is a lively and timely public television series about one of America's greatest natural resources -- San Francisco Bay. Being shot in HDTV for national broadcast, Saving the Bay consists of four one-hour episodes focusing on the geological, cultural, and developmental history of San Francisco Bay and the larger northern California watershed from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Farallon Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Conceived as more than purely a television series, Saving the Bay is a huge public education project designed to raise awareness about San Francisco Bay -- its evolution, how we almost lost and then saved the Bay, and how we are planning the future of the Bay including wetland restoration, increased public access and balancing the often competing needs of a fragile ecosystem which is the centerpiece of a major urban area with over 7 million people.

The first airings are planned for Fall 2009 on Northern California Public Television -- KQED, KTEH and KQET. National distribution will follow.

San Francisco Bay is an irreplaceable gift of nature that man can either abuse and ultimately destroy -– or improve and protect for future generations. San Francisco Bay Plan, 1969