The Forum convened on July 13 at the San Pablo Community Center  to learn about environmental education, especially the creek and watershed education programs that are essential for engaging young people. Representatives of three successful non-profits described their programs. KIDS for the BAY: Mandi Billinge,  Executive Director - Link to presentation Friends of Wagner Ranch Nature Area:  Toris Jaeger, OUSD District Naturalist; Kathy Barrett, Director The Watershed Project: Liza Dadiomov, Program Manager - Link to presentation ----- After the presentations we visited nearby Davis…

September 21st, 2016 9:00-11:300 a.m. Contra Costa County Public Works Department 255 Glacier Drive, Martinez CA   The theme for September's Watershed Forum Meeting is Trash. We have speakers representing three areas of dealing with trash in our creeks: regional, municipal, and community. Dale Bowyer from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board will discuss the requirements in the Municipal Regional Permit 2.0. Mike Perlmutter from the City of Oakland will tell us about their Adopt a Spot program, which…

The topic for this meeting is outreach in a social media age. We will take a look at how the East Bay Regional Park District does social media, as well as what the Lower Walnut Creek team at the Contra Costa Flood Control District is utilizing Facebook to reach a new audience. The last part of the meeting will be an exercise where you get to create your own post based on the Big Break Visitor Center. See Agenda Here…

2017’s first Contra Costa Watershed Forum meeting will be held next Wednesday, January 11, in Concord at the Willow Pass Recreation Center.  We hope that you will be able to join us, this month’s speakers will be from UC Berkeley,   Matt Kondolf, Professor of Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley, will discuss some of the projects he has worked on throughout the world, and provide an introduction to the Environmental Planning program at Berkeley.   Jen Natali and Ari Frink,…

Educating Tomorrow's Watershed Leaders We will have presentations from educators working in the classroom to educate tomorrow's environmental leaders. High School students who participated in the environmental science program will share what they have learned this year, we will learn about the upcoming ecology course taking place in the City of Pittsburg this summer. There will also be a field experience starting at 11:30. We will move the meeting outside, and practice some water quality sampling on Kirker Creek. The…