Cleaning Up The San Diego River

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published February 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM PST

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

A group of volunteers have special permission to use kayaks and canoes Saturday in the San Diego River Estuary. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce explains.

A group of volunteers have special permission to use kayaks and canoes Saturday in the San Diego River Estuary. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce explains.

The San Diego River Park Foundation will be using the boats to remove trash and other debris from the estuary between the Sunset Cliffs bridge and past the Mission Bay bridge.

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Program Manager Richard Dhu says the volunteers will clean up the area for migratory birds and species such as egrets and herons that make the estuary a year round home.

Dhu: We're just hoping to really go in there and put a nice shine on the area especially with the nesting season beginning in March.

He says volunteers will also be removing trash and other debris from the shoreline.

The wildlife habitat preserve is home to nesting birds and is a stopping point each year for many species along the Pacific Flyway between Mexico and Alaska.

Ed Joyce, KPBS News.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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