Friends of Five Creeks

Helping nature in the East Bay --Hands On

New natural history plaques installed in Upper Codornices Watershed! Read our annual newsletter. Click photos below for slide shows on projects.

Interpretive Signs

Surveying Invasive Pepperweed

Friends of Five Creeks is an all-volunteer group working hands-on for clean water and healthy watersheds. We protect and restore natural areas that welcome both wildlife and people on the urbanized east side of San Francisco Bay. See some of our restoration projects.

Please join us in:

Work parties restoring native vegetation and wildlife habitat, lessening erosion and flooding, providing trails and green corridors.

Free guided walks and talks open to all

Weekday "weed warriors" in varied natural areas.

Outreach and public education including signs, publications, web applications, appearances at festivals, and more

Advocating, participating in political processes, and partnering with agencies and other groups.

Ideas on how you can help creeks.

Read our 2009 annual newsletter.

To get email or mail updates on volunteering and events, or arrange a work party for your group, email F5Creeks@aol.com
or call (510) 848-9358.

Click here to donate or join!

New:

Edible and useful wild plants and weeds for our area

Volunteer restoration and nature-oriented events Bay wide, including clickable map, now at Bay Nature Calendar. Thanks to a grant from the Rose Foundation for Communities and Environment, Northern California Grassroots Fund, for this joint effort!

Visit www.bluegreenbldg.org, our web site showcasing over 50 East Bay projects using low-impact development -- methods that befriend creeks and Bay by reducing pollution and damage from urban runoff.

About Us:

Friends of Five Creeks strives to keep nature a vital part of the urbanized east side of San Francisco Bay, in Berkeley, Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito, and Richmond. The "five creeks" in our name are Codornices, Village, Marin, Middle (Blackberry), and Cerrito Creeks and their tributaries. We also have projects on Schoolhouse and Strawberry Creeks and on the Bay shore.

Our grassroots group (bylaws), founded in 1996, operates under the fiscal sponsorship of Berkeley Partners for Parks, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation.

We meet at 7 pm on first Mondays (second Monday if the first is a holiday) at Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin.

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