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COASTWEEKS — September 17 through October 9, 2011
Event details for October 1 - October 7
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Lanphere Dunes Guided Walk
- Humboldt County
Saturday, October 1, 10am-1pm Join Friends of the Dunes for a tour of the Lanphere Dunes with a trained naturalist. Meet at Pacific Union School, 3001 Janes Road in Arcata. For information, email info@friendsofthedunes.org.
6th Annual Community Creek Cleanup
- Shasta County
Saturday, October 1, 8am-noon. Community Creek Action Committee composed of Rotary Club of Redding, City of Redding, students from Simpson University, California Conservation Corps, Good News Rescue Mission, Henderson Neighborhood Association, Area Boy and Girl Scouts with a host of citizen volunteers are working in Henderson Open Space on Saturday, October 1, from 8am-Noon. This parcel in on the east bank of the Sacramento River and is approximately 60 acres in size. The climax riparian habitat is some of the finest between Shasta Dam and Sacramento. Unfortunately, the area in the very center of town has been neglected from almost half a century. Himalayan blackberry is fifteen feet tall. This non native plant as well as already treated Arundo, Ailanthus, Vinca and black locust will be mechanically removed in wide corridors perpendicular to the River. This opening will encourage public use, discourage illegal camping with consequent fires, and improve the native plant base which surrounds three ponds and valuable flood plain remnants. Meet behind Raley's on Hartnell Avenue taking East Parkview to Henderson. Look for signs. Please register at www.shastacreeks.com. For more information, email Randall Smith. Wetland Wildlife Identification and History - Butte County Saturday, October 1, 9am-2pm. Here's your chance for fun while learning about Gray Lodge Wildlife Area's Wetland Wildlife and much more. Open to the public, this is part two of a three-part learning series. Emphasis will be on our Wetland Wildlife, including identification of waterfowl and other common species. We will review last session and build on the Valley's changes from the wildlife's perspective. Much of the day will be in an office setting, learning about the wetland wildlife, including their habits and habitat requirements. Birds will be the main focus of this discussion. Following the talk, we will spend time on the trail, experiencing the sights and sounds of the wetland wildlife. An ID book and binoculars are strongly recommended for this session. Due to limited space, reservations are required. Cost: free. For more information, call the Gray Lodge WA Naturalist Office (530) 846-7505 or email Ldieter@dfg.ca.gov. Lake Berryessa Birding Field Trip - Napa County Saturday, October 1. Join Altacal Audubon for this Napa County Big Day Trip, with Lake Berryessa Ranger and Altacal President Scott Huber for a full day of birding. Scott will lead the group to some of Napa County's best birding spots in the Lake Berryessa area. Participants departing the Chico area Saturday morning will meet at the Monticello Dam at 8:00 a.m., those staying in the Berryessa area Friday night can meet at 7 a.m. at the Cold Water Creek trailhead just below the dam. We'll spend the first part of the day birding around the lake and end the day birding the Napa River/Napa Valley and finish off with some wine tasting. You can make a weekend of it by arranging your own camping or lodging in the area. For more information, contact Scott at (530) 321-5579 or wmscotthuber@gmail.com. Cosumnes River Guided Walk - Sacramento County Saturday, October 1, 9am. Join the Cosumnes River Preserve for this free guided walk. Meet at the Visitor Center Deck. Find directions online. Contact info@cosumnes.org for more information.
Classroom and Field Raptor Identification Workshop
- Marin County
Saturday, October 1, 8am-noon. Marin Audubon hosts this event. The Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO) is dedicated to studying migrating birds of prey along the Pacific Coast. Over 250 volunteers and interns count, band and conduct radiotelemetry studies from mid-August through early December. Hawk Hill, in the Marin Headlands, is the best place to observe the fall migration. Allen Fish, the Director of GGRO, is a leading raptor biologist and a dynamic teacher. Allen has graciously agreed to present a condensed one-day classroom and field workshop on raptor identification for Marin Audubon. We will meet at 8AM at Bldg 1050 at Ft. Cronkhite for a 90-minute classroom Powerpoint presentation on identifying California raptors. At about 10AM we will drive up to Hawk Hill for a two-hour field class, with the option of staying up all day. Bring layered clothing for heat or cold. Bring lunch, snacks, water, hat, binoculars, and field guide. If raining or fogging we will still meet. Directions to Bldg 1050 Ft Cronkhite. Drive into the Marin Headlands via Alexander Avenue and the five-minute tunnel on Bunker Road. As you drive alongside Rodeo Lagoon, watch for the only building with a wooden porch just across from the foot bridge to Rodeo Beach. This is Building 1050. Park alongside the road. Because of limited classroom space, this workshop will be limited to 30 participants. Contact Vicky Van Meterat at vicky.vanmeter@gmail.com or (415) 299-2514. Chantey Sing 30th Anniversary Celebration - San Francisco County Saturday, October 1, 11:30am-midnight. Join the San Francisco Marime National Historic Park in celebration of the monthly chantey sing's 30th year! From 11:30am to 5:00pm, there will be performances of sea music at several venues on Hyde Street Pier, featuring singers and instrumentalists who have been involved with the chantey sings over the years. At 8pm to midnight, we will have the monthly chantey sing. To reserve for the evening chantey sing, please email peter_kasin@nps.gov, or call (415) 561-7171. Free admission to the pier activities and evening chantey sing. To board the historic ships, open daily 9:30am-5:30pm, adults, $5. Ages 15 and under, free (must be accompanied by an adult). Free with national park passes. Arroyo Hondo Preserve Plein Air - Santa Barbara County Saturday, October 1, 11am-4pm. A very special art exhibition and sale featuring the work of many well-known local artists and Oak Group members. Stroll along the creek and meadows and watch the painters working en plein air, capturing the magic of the canyon. The Ortega Adobe Gallery will also be filled with beautiful new works for sale. Artists are generously donating 50% of sales to benefit the Arroyo Hondo Preserve. Bring your own brushes if you want to join in painting one of the most pristine spots on the Gaviota Coast. Live music, picnic lunch, a beer and wine garden too. Make your reservations now. Santa Barbara Land Trust members: $40, Non-members: $50. Directions can be found here. Ventura Stream Team - Ventura County Saturday, October 1, 9am. Come help Ventura Stream Team collect water quality data at 15 sites in the Ventura River watershed. The outing will last approximately 3-4 hours. Meet next to 239 W. Main Street in Ventura (across the street from Patagonia). From there we will travel by car to our sites. Please be prepared to get your feet wet! Pizza and sodas will be provided afterwards. For more information, please contact Ben at (805) 563-3377 x3 or ben@sbck.org. World Festival of Sacred Music: Honoring the Sea - Los Angeles County Saturday, October 1, 3-7pm. Honor the sea on the shores of Santa Monica Beach, featuring Agape International Choir, Halau Keali'i O Nalani with Halau O Lilinoe, Kinnara Taiko, La Canada High School Marching Band, Sacred Rhythm Drum Ensemble, Swing Brazil Tribe with Viver Brasil, and Ti'at Society. The groups will proceed down the beach and end with an enormous gathering on the water's edge. All are invited to sit in the sand as each group performs for the sea and places their offering on the Ti'at canoe. As we witness the Ti'at taking offerings and sacred blessings beyond the breaking waves, many will reflect on their commitment to be better stewards of this planet. In the late afternoon sun, each group spreads across the beach for individual performances. Produced by the World Festival of Sacred Music in partnership with City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division and Heal the Bay. For more information about the festival please visit www.festivalofsacredmusic.org. If you are interested in proceeding with Heal the Bay, please contact Saira Gandhi. No cost/no reservations required. Wear white or aqua. Travel light as activities move along the beach. Be prepared to sit in the sand without blankets or chairs. If you wish, bring flowers for the sea. Please support Santa Monica's ban on plastic bags and polystyrene. Long Beach Cleanup - Los Angeles County Saturday, October 1, 9am-noon. Join Save Our Beach for this cleanup. Look for blue tent in sand north of Belmont Pool. Please bring garden/work gloves, reusable water bottle and trash grabber so we make less trash. Please bring trash bags back to the blue canopy so we can consolidate bags and reuse them. We provide: free parking, bags, gloves, community service certificates and hand sanitizers. Cleanup happens rain or shine. Map and directions can be found here. Cabrillo Marine Aquarium National Public Lands Day Cleanup - Los Angeles County Saturday, October 1. Participate in Cabrillo Marine Aquarium's National Public Lands Day event to clean up debris along the beach and plant native species. Contact Esther Nah at (310) 548-7562 or esther.nah@lacity.org for more details. Santa Rosa Creek Cleanup - San Mateo County Saturday, October 1, 10am This event is free and open to the public. Meet Community Clean Water Institute at Pierson Street Bridge on Santa Rosa Creek. Call (707) 824-4370 for more information. Rockaway Beach Cleanup - San Mateo County Saturday, October 1, 9-11am Join Pacifica Beach Coalition at the seawall by Nicks for this beach cleanup. Keep in mind that parking at Nicks is not welcomed unless you are dining there so please park on the street or in the garage across the street underneath the Best Western Lighthouse Hotel. Bags and gloves will be provided but if you can, bring your own bucket and gloves and we'll be even more sustainable. World Animal Day at the Ravenswood Salt Ponds - San Mateo County Saturday, October 1, 9am-noon. Join Save The Bay at Ravenswood Pond in Menlo Park. We love the Bay animals, such as cattle egrets, salt marsh harvest mice, and bat rays, at the Ravenswood Salt Ponds! And we invite you to come out and enjoy the wonderful world of wildlife that is the San Francisco Bay. We are working hard to get our shoreline plots ready for their new residents, but first we have a lot of invasive weeds to clear out! Other activities include shoreline clean-up and general site maintenance. Get more information and register online.
Santa Ana River and Bike Trail National Public Lands Day
- Riverside County Saturday, October 1, 8am-noon. Participate in Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful's National Public Lands Day event cleanup the watershed. Volunteers must wear closed-toed shoes and appropiate clothing. Free lunch and t-shirts are provided. Please bring your own water bottle. Contact Jenny Paul at (951) 683-7100 x204 or jpaul@riverside-chamber.com for more details. Back Bay Drive Nature Walk - Orange County Saturday, October 1, 9-11am. Join Newport Bay Conservancy at Shellmaker Island for a Saturday morning walk along Bay Back Drive observing birds and plants. A side channel of the estuary runs adjacent to the multi-purpose road and there are great opportunities to view shorebirds, waterfowl and other birds. Bring sun protection and binoculars if you have them. There is no charge for the program, but reservations are requested. Please call (949) 923-2269 for more information and to RSVP. Bolsa Chica Tour - Orange County Saturday, October 1, 9-1:30am. Join Amigos de Bolsa Chica for an exceptional on-site presentation of the Bolsa Chica Story. Our docents will gather at the south lot of the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, across the street from the main entrance to Bolsa Chica State Beach. Docents are stationed on or near the footbridge, a truly magnificent entrance to the restored Bolsa Chica wetlands. Tours begin every 15 minutes and five areas of interest are included in the presentation: history, birds, endangered species, ecology and restoration. This free tour is on a first come, first served basis. This is a wonderful opportunity for vacationers, students, small groups and local citizens to visit our valuable resource. RiverBlitz - San Diego County Saturday, October 1 through October 16. RiverBlitz is San Diego River Park Foundation's program to survey and collect data on the presence of trash, invasive plant species and park health issues along the San Diego River. This is a fun and informative way to see the river and learn about field data collection and documentation while making a difference for its future. No experience needed, trained team leaders will guide you through the process. Team leader training available. Call Shannon at (619) 297-7380 or email her for more info Whale Watch Fundraiser to support the Marine Sanctuary - San Francisco County Sunday, October 2, 3:30-6pm. Join Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association and San Francisco Whale Tours on a trip to the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. The Association is hosting an exploration of the seas close around the islands, accompanied by some of our most experienced and knowledgeable naturalists. We will only be able to take a few dozen people, so RSVP quickly if you would like to join us. Find full details online. Minimum donation is $175. Birding Oro Loma Marsh - Alameda County Sunday, October 2, 8am. Join Ohlone Audubon for this event. By the end of September and early October our migrating shorebirds have returned to the bay. From the parking area we will walk out to the shore and head south along the San Lorenzo Trail, checking out both the shoreline as the tide recedes and the inner ponds where the birds have roosted during high tide (5:44AM!). This is a great chance to study those difficult shorebirds, including peeps, such as Western and Least Sandpipers, Dowitcher, yellowlegs, plovers, willets, godwits, Dunlin and Red Knots, to name some of our abundant wintering population. We also will watch the sky for different terns and gulls. This is an all walking trip, along a level path. We will meet at the end of Grant Avenue in San Lorenzo, by the water treatment plant. There is a staging area for parking on the north or right side of the road before it ends. A restroom is available. We expect to finish about lunchtime and some of us have known to eat in the Peruvian restaurant near the parking lot afterwards. To reach Grant Avenue in San Lorenzo, exit I-880 at Washington Avenue and head south on Washington Avenue. Turn right or west on Grant Avenue (there is a traffic light at this intersection, and Arroyo High School is nearby on the right) and proceed to the end of the road, towards the bay. Contact leaders Phil & Pat Gordon at fieldtrips@ohloneaudubon.org. "Nature's Inspiration" Committee for Green Foothills Event - San Mateo County Sunday, October 2, 3:30-6pm. Peter Douglas, long-time Executive Director of the California Coastal Commission, will be the honoree of Nature's Inspiration 2011. California Secretary of Natural Resources John Laird will be our guest speaker. We invite you to enjoy an afternoon on our spectacular coast at this Committee for Green Foothills fundraiser. Find details here. Seining for Fish on Soquel Creek Lagoon - Santa Cruz County Sunday, October 2, and October 9, 9am-noon. Get as wet as you want to as Coastal Watershed Council volunteers assist Don Alley and his team in their annual fish seining effort in Soquel Creek Lagoon. Handle fish, clip pelvic fins (and learn why this is done), and help in the effort to calculate how many fish are out there. You can attend either day or both! Space for some events is limited so please RSVP to Greg Pepping at gpepping@coastalws.org or (831) 464-9200 to reserve your spot. Goleta Stream Team - Ventura County Sunday, October 2, 10am. Come help Ventura Stream Team collect water quality data at 11 sites in the Goleta Slough watershed. The outing will last approximately 2-3 hours. Meet at the K-Mart parking lot on the corner of Hollister and Storke Road. (Look for us in the area of the parking lot in front of the K-mart garden center.) From there we will travel by car to our sites. Please be prepared to get your feet wet! Pizza will be provided afterwards. For more information, please contact Ben at (805) 563-3377 x3 or ben@sbck.org. Marj Saunders Park Cleanup - Alameda County Monday, October 3, 10am-noon Help Friends of Sausal Creek with the monthly site clean up! Activities include litter pickup, graffiti removal, removal of invasive non-native species such as vinca and Cape ivy, and maintenance of the planted areas. The park is located at Chelton Drive and Ascot Drive in Oakland (look for the painted rock that people have painted with birthday and special occasion messages for about 50 years!). Email site leader Elaine Geffen to confirm the date and time. Santa Monica Pier Aquarium Volunteer Training - Los Angeles County Tuesday, October 4, 6:30-8:30pm Become a Santa Monica Pier Aquarium volunteer! Aquarium volunteer training will be held on the following six evenings for those accepted into the training: October 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13. Application is due by September 19. Visit the website for details. Guided Bird Walk - Humboldt County Wednesday, October 5, 9-11am. Join naturalist Louise Bacon-Ogden for a guided bird walk along the Shorebird Loop Trail at the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Bring binoculars if you have them. Rain or shine. All levels welcome! Meet at the Humboldt Bay NWR Headquarters & Visitor Center. California Invasive Plant Council Symposium - Placer County Wednesday, October 5 through Friday, October 7. Cal-IPC's 20th annual Symposium at the Granlibakken Resort in Tahoe City will celebrate Cal-IPC's success over the past twenty years while looking ahead to the future of invasive plant management, research, and policy. The theme of this year's Symposium is Invasive Plants and Ecological Change. We have invited speakers to address the myriad types of human-influenced changes to the natural environment that impact invasive plant management, including changes in soils, fire, nitrogen deposition, and, of course, climate change. For full details, visit http://www.cal-ipc.org/symposia/index.php. World Habitat Day at Save The Bay's Native Plant Nursery - Alameda County Wednesday, October 5, 1-4pm. Help Save The Bay grow future habitats in our Native Plant Nursery! Learn how to cultivate your own native habitat from our expert staff by growing native species such as gum plant, jaumea and the California poppy that provide food and shelter to thousands of San Francisco Bay wildlife species. Volunteers are needed to help transplant native seedlings, collect native cuttings and perform general nursery maintenance at our nursery at Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline in Oakland. Get more information and register online. California Coastal Commission Meeting - Orange County Wednesday, October 5 through Friday, October 7. The California Coastal Commission monthly meeting will be held at Huntington Beach City Hall, City Council Chambers, 2000 Main Street in Huntington Beach. Meeting is open to the public. Check website for agenda. River Rescue - San Diego County Wednesday, October 5. Volunteers are needed for San Diego River Park Foundation's weekday River Rescue. Help us as we attack smaller trash sites along the river. This is a great way to see the river and make a difference for its future. Call (619) 297-7380 or email Doug for more info and meeting locations. Ven Explora la Naturaleza Conmigo - San Diego County Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays, 2-3pm Spanish-speaking docent-led tours of the Chula Vista Nature Center and Sweetwater Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. Free for members and free for all with paid admission to the Nature Center. Bay Interpretive Training Program - Santa Cruz County Starts Thursday, October 6, 9am-noon. Do you enjoy exploring with children in the outdoors? Helping them to discover and appreciate their natural environment? If you get excited investigating the beach, riding in a boat on the bay, peering under docks and rocks for animal life, or bird watching from the pier, the Berkeley Marina Volunteer Program could be for you! This unique Docent program, established 25 years ago, is designed to train volunteers to assist Naturalists in teaching the ecology of the San Francisco Bay Area to children ages 5 years to 18 years. Our environmental education programs include Low tide walks, the Research boat and Sailing programs, Summer Marine Biology and Boating programs. The training takes place Thursday and Friday mornings 9:00-12:00. Starting on Oct 6th 2011 and continuing until March, we ask for 14 hours a month commitment. There are two Saturday boat trainings. Trainings sessions will take place in the Shorebird Park Nature Center, 160 University Ave. at the Berkeley Marina. Training is ongoing and we encourage new people at any time. For more information and details on dates and times, check out our web site. To speak to someone personally please call Patty Donald or Dara Rossoff at (510) 981-6720. Younger Lagoon Reserve Tour - Santa Cruz County Thursday, October 6 and Sunday, October 9, 2-3:30pm Experience the wildlife and natural beauty that make Younger Lagoon an exceptional local treasure on this docent-led tour to the lagoon and its beach habitat. Learn about the ongoing research and habitat restoration work that help this vital ecosystem thrive. Tour includes a short hike and is best suited for adults in good physical condition and children age 10 and older. Space limited, free with admission to the Seymour Center. Reservations required: (831) 459-3800.
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