I was on the fence about the parcel tax in 2016. Now that the wetland habitat restoration is happening, I am happy that I voted yes. It is my small way of giving back to my community.

Yay!! So happy to hear about this restoration work, restoring this area will go a long way toward improving our resilience to climate change.

Glad to hear this. I took my Ecology students from Santa Clara University on a series of field trips to Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge this past fall. It's a beautiful place but could certainly use some capital improvements. One sad fact to know is that, due to excessive groundwater pumping and land subsidence, Alviso and nearby cities have sunk so much that the natural Bay can no longer be allowed to adjoin the land. The whole area would flood and cause billions of dollars of damage. Instead, we are stuck with using a series of levees (dams) basically forever.

And with climate change continuing practically unabated due to our short-sightedness, the levees will have to be built higher and higher. It's not a good situation, but I'm glad that we have enough money to deal with it. This is why there's such a stark contrast between expected climate change impacts in developed vs. developing countries: Rich communities spend millions of dollars on seawalls; poor communities just have to retreat, and/or clean up the resulting mess.