“You Just Have To Be There”: North Bay Woman's 30-Year Mission To Protect The San Pablo Bay Shoreline

Protecting the wetlands and their inhabitants along the northern edge of San Pablo Bay has been Myrna Hayes’ driving passion for the past three decades.

An unlikely calling, considering her previous experience with wetlands. Or lack thereof.

“I knew nothing about wetlands. I don’t know that I knew the word” said Hayes, who grew up hundreds of miles away in the Butte County town of Paradise.

But in the early 1990s, Hayes was living in Vallejo and was drafted by her neighbors into the effort to fight a proposed development. Once Hayes understood the value of what she was working to preserve, there was no

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