Happy new year! The Friends Of The Creek are keeping busy advancing the prospect of daylighting the creek through Sausalito, but also building partnerships around stewardship in the watershed, and supporting the teachers of the local public school in environmental, experiential education. Recent success in the City to protect the Lincoln-Butte open space next to […]
During the holiday break, Professor Matthew Cover of Cal State Stanislaus joined Friends of the Creek, Chair, Steve Moore to sampled benthic macroinvertebrates (i.e., aquatic insects & other critters) from the stream bed on the Willow Grove site. The population of insects that live in streams indicate the level of water quality. If there is
Friends of Willow Creek (of Sausalito), Happy new (school) year! For the friends, that means fall work parties to take care of the creek at Willow Grove! Fall Community Cleanup Events at Willow Grove, Corner of Nevada St. and Bridgeway Saturday September 27, 9:00 – 11:00 A.M., end of summer weeding and watering of recently
We hope you are having a great summer! Board Meeting, Sunday August 17, 4pm The board of the nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, Friends of Willow Creek, will be meeting Creekside at Nevada and Bridgeway (Willow Grove) at 4:00 pm on Sunday August 17, in case you would like to come by and talk about the creek
Please save the date to celebrate our 4th Annual Earth Day cleanup and planting! When: Saturday April 26, 9am to 12:30pm Where: Willow Grove at Nevada and Bridgeway, Sausalito How: Work with neighbors and naturalists to identify and remove nonnative blackberry, fennel, ivy, hemlock, and broom plants that crowd out natives and open space by
The plan and profile of the existing Willow Creek drainage through Sausalito is now mapped on an aerial photograph and available for review. Email me if you would like a PDF for reference. It is 5 MB and 7 pages of 11 X 17 dimension, in case you want to print it. Creek board of
With school out, Friends have been taking care of the Hoop House native plant nursery on Willow Creek Academy campus by watering our 3300 remaining natives twice and week, and also visiting the creek and checking on the native plantings there through the warmer weather. The long days encourage the re-growth of the non-natives (blackberry,
