Much of the Bay Area’s shoreline once looked a lot like the Petaluma River estuary, where 12 miles of tidal sloughs still twist and turn through scenic places like Shollenberger Park.

Bill Long, Chris DeGabrielle and Judy Arnold take us 10 miles north of the Golden Gate, where over eons of time, Novato Creek carved a lush valley into the Marin County hills.

A journey up the Dry Creek Valley to Warm Springs Dam and Lake Sonoma, where scientists work to re-establish a self-sustaining run of coho salmon.

The Russian Riverkeeper reminds us that, “No matter where you live, you’re connected to a river or a lake or the ocean and what you do at your house affects those water bodies because of the way we built our cities.”