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HABITAT RESTORATION: EAST BAY & SAN FRANCISCO

If your organization needs volunteers for habitat restoration projects around the Bay Area, send your information by e-mail for possible inclusion in this guide.

These organizations offer opportunities around the Bay Area, including the East Bay.

Golden Gate Audubon

• About: Golden Gate Audubon is dedicated to the protection of Bay Area birds, other wildlife, and their natural habitats
• Where: San Francisco and East Bay
• Projects include: Habitat restoration and cleanup, removal of invasive plants

See the main volunteer page for more information.

Save the Bay (San Francisco)

• About: Works exclusively to protect and restore San Francisco Bay and the habitat surrounding the bay
• Where: Around the San Francisco Bay Area
• Projects include: Collecting native plant seeds, growing plants in nurseries, checking water quality, planting along shoreline, monitoring health of wildlife populations

Go to the Save the Bay Website for additional details.

One Brick

• About: One Brick offers volunteers a no-commitment chance to participate in projects as time is available. Projects range from habitat restoration to working city events.
• Where: San Francisco and Bay Area
• Projects include: Habitat restoration workdays, helping at food banks, volunteering with children, setting up for and working at events

Go to the One Brick website to learn more.

HABITAT RESTORATION: EAST BAY

East Bay Parks Trail & Habitat Restoration

• About: The East Bay Parks District encompasses a huge green belt throughout the East Bay. They offer both habitat and trail restoration projects for volunteers
• Where: Throughout the East Bay Parks District
• Projects include: Trail maintenance and rehabilitation, constructing new trails, planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive plants, building and placing butterfly, bat, bird, and duck boxes

Go to the park projects page for more information.

Friends of Five Creeks

• About: Friends of Five Creeks is group of volunteers working for clean water, healthy watersheds, and welcomes for wildlife and people along the creeks and shorelines of North Berkeley, Albany, Kensington, and southern El Cerrito and Richmond
• Where: Various creeks in the East Bay (see above)
• Projects include: Planting, removing invasive species, installing signs, monitoring water quality

Go to the Five Creeks website for more information.

Adopt-a-Creek Oakland

• About: Encourages participants toadopt an area of creek and make a commitment to regularly clean and beautify a public creek area
• Where: Oakland (through Oakland Creeks Watershed Improvement Program
• Projects: The City provides adopters with site assessment, tool lending, trash pickup and will post a sign recognizing the adopting individual(s) or group. The adopter must make a one-year commitment to the area

See the Adopt-a-Spot Agreement for more details.

Doc Quack's Wildlife Volunteers

• About: An all-ages volunteering opportunity for adults and kids - parental supervision required in many cases. Assists East Bay Regional Park District's Stewardship staff with protecting, managing, conserving and enhancing the region's important scenic and natural resources.
• Where: Throughout the East Bay Parks District
• Projects include: Habitat restoration, wildlife education, Rail Rescue Rangers (help create habitat for endangered California Clapper Rail

Go to the Doc Quack's Wildlife Volunteers page for more information.

Berkeley Path Wanderer's Association

• About: A volunteer group of community members who have come together to increase public awareness of the City of Berkeley's pathways
• Where: Berkeley
• Projects include: Building, restoring and maintaining Berkeley's pathways

Go to the Berkeley Path Wanderer's website for more information.

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