This winter the Friends worked extra hard to apply for large private and public grants to make creek restoration on the Willow Creek Academy (WCA) campus a reality. Board member Emily Schmidt was a sponsor for our application to the Lennox Foundation to design a daylighted creek in the upper campus, and remove the non-native […]
March 31st, 2017 Marks the Sixth Anniversary of Friends of the Creek Today marks our 6th anniversary as a 501c3 nonprofit, as we were established on March 31, 2011, in anticipation of Earth Day that year when we cleared the Nevada and Bridgeway Willow Grove site for the first time. Since then, we’ve not looked
Friends Board member Anne Siskin has been working with head of School Tara Seekins and Maintenance Chief Alan Rothkop, as well as some WCA 3rd graders and mentor students from Marin Country Day, to design a drainage system to go with our new 2000 square foot hillside native plant garden. On MLK Day this year,
On August 2 the Sausalito Marin City School Board passed a resolution to include $500,000 in funding for drainage improvements and creek restoration in the upcoming bond measure. The Willow Creek Daylighting Project is now officially part of the proposed measure that goes before voters on Tuesday, November 8. The Friends of Willow Creek, Sausalito will raise an additional $2 Million
Friends of Willow Creek will be hosting the fourth annual Earth Day Willow Creek Community Cleanup and Native Plant Restoration on Saturday, April 26th, from 9:00 am to 12:30pm. Each year, Friends of the Creek volunteers invite community members and families to join this annual event dedicated to clearing invasives and planting natives. Willow Creek
Did you know that throughout this historic drought in California, the lowest rainfall in recorded history (about 150 years), our neighborhood Willow Creek has continued to flow year round? Q: How can this little creek flow year-round, when there was almost no rain between January 2013 and February 2014? Where does this water come from?
Thanks to all of you who joined us in Sept and Oct to clean up the creek area and plant some gorgeous native plants. The place looks great (and ready for some more rain!). On Nov. 20 we had a decent storm and I attached 2 pictures of the creek at the “Willow Grove” for
Thanks to all who joined us for a successful Earth Day/Global Youth Service Day event on Sat. April 27! It was another wonderfully successful event, where we cleared more space near the creek of blackberries and ivy, and also planted over 200 of our native plants that we nurture up on Willow Creek campus in
The Friends of Willow Creek are honored and excited to announce our receiving an $8,000 grant to create a creek daylighting plan for the Willow Creek Watershed. Daylighting is when you remove a creek from an underground pipe and re-create its open, vegetated channel above ground. Since 2011, we have submitted numerous grant applications, including
First, The Friends Board of Directors would like to wish you a happy new year and hope your holidays have been merry! Christmas for Willow Creek was a very wet and merry one, and the native plants are enjoying their inundation in the floodplain we are restoring and vegetating at Nevada and Bridgeway. This is
