Helping nature in the East Bay --Hands On

Click photos below for slide shows on projects -- including summer 2009 GPS pepperweed survey! Surveying Invasive Pepperweed Finishing up the broom forest at the mouth of Schoolhouse Creek Taking down the ugly fence at restored Cerrito Creek at Adams Street.

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 annual newsletter.

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

Click here to donate or join!

NO JULY MEETING: Join us instead on a Berkeley waterfront walk exploring restoration sites, ending with refreshments and a view of the sunset and full-moon rise!

Map of volunteer restoration/greening

See hands-on projects in street, satellite, contour, or Google Earth views! Get directions; find links and photos! This new F5C projects is a collaborative WIKI; see the map or contact us to add projects.

Visit www.bluegreenbldg.org

our web site showcasing over 50 East Bay projects that befriend creeks and Bay by reducing pollution and damage from urban runoff.

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.