Products
- partial map of all homeowners along Fairfax creeks
- mailing list developed of creekside homeowners
Activities
- identified outflows into Fairfax's major creeks
- informational seminar for creekside homeowners
- distributed MCSTOPPP material
Canal Community Alliance
Contact: Jaclyn Fabre
Site: San Rafael Canal
Products
- published a feature article about water pollution prevention in Canal Vision,
reaching about 4000 residents and businesses
Activities
- reached over 1000 residents with feature segment on Radio Canal about water
pollution prevention
- conducted an awareness week promoting water pollution prevention with fun
educational activities for the community
- conducted 4 separate field trips promoting water consciousness and environmental
awareness to 56 students ages 5-20
- conducted Canal Water class for local clubs
- XCEL presenters spoke with 51 students (ages 5-11) at Novato Youth Center
regarding pollution in Canal waters
Friends of Corte Madera Creek
Contact: Carole d'Alessio
Sites: Fairfax, San Anselmo, Sleepy Hollow, Ross, Larkspur, Tamalpais, and
Corte Madera Creeks
Products
- created a volunteer survey handbook of protocols for measuring the creeks
physical parameters
- Creek Chronicles was sent to 2300 people that live along the Corte Madera
Creek watershed
Activities
- gave training workshop for volunteers that included quantitative data collection
- trained volunteers on how to pebble-count and measure creek cross-sections
- increased number of creekwatchers by 14 Core creekwatchers include 53 adult
volunteers and 6 students
- met with Canyon Road homeowners group in Fairfax to discuss how residents
can protect health of local creek
- planted 4 willows and 6 alders along San Anselmo Creek
Tamalpais Valley Improvement Club
Contact: Elizabeth McKee
Site: Coyote Creek
Students/volunteers: 40+
Products
- designed door hangers and posters on Coyote Creek distributed
Activities
- 10 cub scouts, 25+ school kids and 8 committee members participated in distributing
posters and door hangers to residents in Tam Valley
- expanded watershed committee by recruiting new members
Hill Middle School
Contact: Trudie Behr-Scott
Site: Warner Creek (Novato)
Students Involved: 60; Also 20 parent volunteers
Products
- developed creek guide in Spanish language
- song written by students about "Kids with a Cause"
- ESL classroom developed native plant guide
- made film about "Kids with a Cause" and shown by Channel 23; teacher
also participated in Parent Forum on Channel 23
- native plant garden established
Activities
- expanded Creek Club to another classroom (60 students)
- participated in North Bay Riparian Station and added 3 data stations
- started "Kids with a Cause"
Kent Middle School
Contact: Cassie McCord
Site: Corte Madera Creek near Ross School
Students Involved: 125
Products
- produced 5 posters which included data on the creek
- researched info for 15 plant/tree cards
Activities
- taught 5 classes how to determine health of a creek through water chemistry,
experiments, invertebrate study and vegetation
- unit culminated in a "Creek Day" where all students rotated through 3 learning
stations
- input information onto North Bay Riparian Station site
San Jose Middle School
Contact: Dave Moore/Melissa Wrinkle
Sites: Ignacio Creek and main stem of Arroyo Creek
San Jose Students involved: 300; Also 80 parents
Products
- constructed watershed awareness website
- updated creek portfolio with current photos, samples and data
- built garden boxes
- 300 doorknob hangers distributed
- 472 students participated in student poetry, art, essays relating to watershed
through schoolwide project
- built scale model of Arroyo San Jose watershed
Activities
- students presented work on the web to community at open house on 5-29-99
- initiated involvement with local community redevelopment plan to preserve
Arroyo San Jose riparian habitat and involve future student creek investigations
- all 7th and 8th graders attended a watershed-related field trip
Sobriety High
Contact: Clara MacNamee
Sites: Marin Lagoon, China Camp and Bel Marin Wetlands
Students involved: 32 with 4 staff and 2 parent volunteers
Products
- 15 posters
- video film
- 24 pieces of artwork done at the sites
- weekly journals
- Built their own kick nets (River's curriculum)
- entered study sites and data on North Bay Riparian Station website
Activities
- 30 high school students monitored 4 areas of wetlands on a weekly basis:
Marin Lagoon for the impact of residential development, China Camp for its
unspoiled wetlands, Vintage Oaks for its commercial development, and Bel Marin
for its re-established wetlands
- water quality testing, ID of macroinvertebrates and flora
- sponsored 2 open-house events to show work and make presentations to parents,
staff and community
Sir Francis Drake High
(SEA-DISC)
Contact: Sue Fox
Sites: Sleepy Hollow Creek, San Anselmo Creek
Students involved: 40; Also 2 adult volunteers
Products
- developed a video on how to do riparian revegetation that can be used to
educate other students and the community
- posted data at North Bay Riparian Station website
Activities
- students surveyed current plant species demographics, did soil analysis
and water quality assessment.
- aided 160 White Hill 6th graders in a creek restoration planting of 1100
willow sprigs in a Stemple Creek tributary to save endangered freshwater shrimp
- restored a 200 meter section of Sleepy Hollow Creek on the school's property
with 160 native plants replacing non-natives that were removed
Lu Sutton
Contact: Beth Kraft
Sites: Walker Creek
Students involved: 450 plus 10 teachers and 10 SEED volunteers
Products
- built a functioning greenhouse
- established an outdoor creek study area
- established a garden area with irrigation system
- 30 students from 5th grade class studied worm composting and created liquid
fertilizer from bin's water drainage. They called it "flower power".
- students designed garden plots out of recycled materials researched by 3rd
graders
Activities
- held grade level and school-wide bi-monthly meetings to discuss garden and
next steps
- students (grades 4&5) designed garden layout and decided what to plant based
on climatic conditions while other students (grade 3) studied soil and the
types that should go into each plot.
- worked on making Walker Creek more accessible
Saint Anselm
Contact: Jill Dickerson
Site: San Anselmo Creek
Students involved: Also 6 volunteer parents and community members
Products
- garden is still being built and will be integrated into curriculum in 1999-2000
school year
Activities
- removed asphalt from 23'X15' site for garden using volunteer labor and donated
equipment
- built fence and gate to enclose garden using volunteers and donated lumber
- purchased topsoil and made four beds
- purchased lumber for borders
Sausalito School District
Contact: Shannon Bryant
Site: Marin City Marsh
Students involved: 80 Also 20 volunteers
Products
- planned signage for the community marsh
Activities
- removed litter and non-native plants
- planted native trees
- hiked from community to ocean to understand their place in the watershed
- taught each other about run-off, animal habitats, value of natural herbs,
and learned about the effects of humans on the watershed
Novato Charter School
Contact: Daryl Nelson
Site: Pacheco Creek
Students involved: 200
Products
- created a mural depicting natural flora and fauna of Pacheco Creek
Activities
- conducted chemical/biological testing
S.E.E.D.
Contact: Sheila Molyneux
Sites: Novato, Pacheco, Walker, Blackstone Canyon, and Miller Creeks
Students involved: 3500 (Represents 10 schools)
Products
- produced A Children's Guide to Plants and Animals in Blackstone Canyon (Mary
E. Silveira School)
- produced student newsletter called Earth Care Watch
Activities
- constructed gardens, greenhouses or aquatic ponds at 10 school sites
- conducted 200 tree plantings at 8 schools
- created bird, butterfly and hummingbird habitats using native plants
- creek studies and water quality monitoring were focus of several classes
in Novato and Dixie School Districts
- organized a Watershed Protection Day for 25 third-grade classes
- docents provided hands-on environmental education projects in classrooms
