Update 3-28-2007
FROG SURVEY TRAINING MONDAY
"ART TO ACTION" GALLERY SHOW MOVES TO LIVE OAK PARK
THANKS
ACTIVITIES OF OTHERS
MARCH 31 WORK PARTIES
San Lorenzo Creek volunteers will propagate and clean up 10 am - noon Saturday; meet at 951 Turner Court, Hayward, 94545. For information contact Paul Modrell, (510) 670-5248 or paulm@acpwa.org.
HELP NEEDED TO MONITOR SALMON
ALAMEDA CO. WATERSHED FORUM MEETS TUESDAY
APRIL 14 MEETING ON GLOBAL WARMING
APRIL 18 TALK ON PLANNING FOR URBAN WILDLIFE
SUMMER WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS
Hope to see you soon!
Hope to see many of you at the training session for our every-other-year frog survey, 7 pm Monday, April 2, in the Edith Stone Room at Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin. You don't need to attend the training to help with the survey (alas, our meeting time falls on Passover this year). The information, forms, and recorded frog calls are on our website, www.fivecreeks.org. I'll be happy to recommend listening sites and answer questions. But the session should be especially interesting -- Krishna Feldman, our wonderful volunteer Cerrito Creek steward who will lead the meeting, is also an amphibian biologist who has worked for several years on problems of frog populations in the Sierra Nevada.
The photos from our three 2006 "Art to Action" sessions, in which environmental artist Zach Pine led creation of ephemeral art at creek headwaters, middle reaches, and mouth, is scheduled to move to Live Oak Park Community Center Wednesday, April 4. Many thanks to River of Words' Young at Art gallery for hosting the show since January. (Winning works from their annual international contest for student art with a watershed go on display soon -- keep your eye out for it at the Sawtooth Building, 2547 8th Street, 13B.)
Big thank-yous to the Berkeley homeschooling Roots and Shoots group for help removing ice plant and pepperweed at the mouth of Strawberry Creek Tuesday, and to the Piedmont High School service club as well as a dozen F5C "regulars" for great work on Cerrito Creek blackberries at our work party Saturday. Thanks in advance to Oceanview School students who will plant and weed on lower Codornices Creek March 29 and 30 as part of the Kids for the Bay environmental-education program.
Greens at Work will pull broom on the waterfront at Miller-Knox Regional Park in Pt. Richmond 10am-2pm on Saturday, March 31st, followed by a picnic. Those big weed wrenches are fun! Meet at the Ramblers building, east sdie of Dornan Drive (map and directions to park at http://www.ebparks.org/parks/gmiller.htm). Bring water, sunblock, hat, gloves, and loppers or weed wrench if you have them. RSVP to Jane at janek@migcom.com.
SPAWN, which works to restore endangered coho salmon in Marin, needs volunteers to help check outmigrant traps, every day starting at 8 am. Volunteers will learn a lot, counting, measuring, and weighing juveniles of several species. Contact natalie@spawnusa.org or 415-488-0370x112.
The Alameda County Watershed forum meets 7-9 pm (refreshments at 6:30 pm) Tuesday, April 3rd, in Hearing Room 3 , Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza (between 14th and 15th Streets at Clay; near 12th Street BART; directions at http://www.oaklandnet.com/cityhall.html). Jan O'Hara of the Regional Water Quality Control Board will speak on the Board's efforts to develop a regionwide stormwater permit and new emphasis on low impact development. Information at dhopkins@waterboards.ca.gov.
Assemblywoman Loni Hancock hosts a "town hall meeting on solutions to the global warming crisis," 9:30 am - 1 pm Saturday, April 14th, Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center Street (between Shattuck & Milvia), Berkeley (near downtown Berkeley BART) Information at (510) 559-1406.
Shannah Anderson and Kathryn Gaffney will discuss efforts to plan for urban wildlife at UC Berkeley's landscape-architecture colloquium, 1-2 pm Wednesday, Apr. 18, 315A Wurster Hall. Information at
http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/events/colloquium.
Teachers interested in integrating more environmental education into their classes should check the summer offerings of Save the Bay and The Watershed Project. For example, Save the Bay has a two-week session partners with San Francisco's Exploratorium, starting with canoeing in the foothills and ending on a sailboat at the Golden Gate! And The Watershed Project's courses include Kids in Marshes, with stipend and the opportunity for mini-grants. Information at http://www.savesfbay.org/site/pp.asp?c=dgKLLSOwEnH&b=490225 or http://www.thewatershedproject.org/default/files/pdf/sum07_brochure.pdf.
Susan Schwartz