Vallejo City Council votes against including Mare Island Preserve Park in San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Vallejo City Council votes against including Mare Island Preserve Park in San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge

VALLEJO — The Vallejo City Council unanimously voted down a measure to include the Mare Island Preserve Park in a proposed expansion of the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge at a contentious city council meeting on Tuesday, The land’s inclusion in the act would have allowed, but not required, the city to make a future transfer of the land to the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge, under the management of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servi…