About the Friends About Sausal Creek Program Areas Volunteer Donate Contact Photos Links Website Index Home		Program Areas :: Overview Overview Conservation & Restoration Research & Monitoring Community Development Municipal Programs Related Links Bylaws/Action Plan Volunteer! Since 1995, the Friends have been working hard on numerous projects, with a variety of stakeholders throughout the watershed. The following programs consolidate the Friends' efforts into discernable areas of focus. Conservation & Restoration The heart and soul of the Friends' work, the Conservation and Restoration Program includes exotics removal, native plant restoration, aquatic habitat restoration, trail maintenance and improvement, demonstration projects, erosion control projects, dam removal, daylighting, and the nursery in Joaquin Miller Park. more Research & Monitoring Th Research & Monitoring Program encompasses watershed assessment and characterization (both ecological and social), monitoring, evaluation of project/program impacts, and mapping. more Community Development Promoting environmental stewardship in an urban watershed with 80,000 inhabitants requires building local awareness and the capacity to support restoration projects, recreational improvements, and so on. Part of the Friends mission statement reads: "To promote awareness and appreciation of the Sausal Creek watershed, and to inspire action to preserve and protect the creek and its watershed as both a natural and a community resource." The Friends' Community Development Program encompasses education and outreach efforts, volunteer programs, as well as creating recreational amenities, extending the greenway, and daylighting the creek in the lower watershed. more Municipal Programs FOSC's partnerships with municipalities is the explicit an implicit foundation for much of the Friends' work. Municipal Programs describes projects on city and county property in the Sausal Creek watershed, supporting city projects in other watersheds, monitoring city policy, playing an advocacy role consistent with the Friends' vision and goals, advocating for local policy reform, and linking to city, county, and regional efforts to shape policy and influence watershed protection. more
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