San Francisco Bay Fund
Inventory of Projects

Community Restoration Projects/Organizations

Friends of San Leandro Creek
http://www.fslc.org/
Mission "... is to restore and enhance San Leandro Creek, to increase its potential as a visual and recreational amenity, to preserve its cultural and natural history, to make San Leandro Creek an economically attractive resource, and to promote a healthy environment for its native flora and fauna." 

Codornices Creek Restoration Project
http://loccna.katz.com/
Live Oak/Codornices Creek Neighborhood Association, LOCCNA, in Berkeley, California. 

Friends of Five Creeks
http://www.fivecreeks.org/
Group of volunteers who seek to protect and restore the watersheds and aquatic and riparian habitat of the creeks of North Berkeley, Albany, Kensington, and southern El Cerrito and Richmond. A grassroots, all-volunteer organization affiliated with the non-profit Urban Creeks  Council of California. Has a very handy calendar of events and informative section on volunteer creek monitoring. 

Bay Area Creeks Resource Page (Oakland Museum)
http://www.museumca.org/creeks/resc.html
An excellent resource page for contacting small creek restoration projects in the East Bay, Peninsula, and San Francisco regions. Also includes an Oakland/Berkeley Creek map. 

Alameda Creek Alliance
http://www.alamedacreek.org/

Bay Area Action-Habitat Restoration Project
http://www.baaction.org/projects/Habitat.html (site down 10/4/06)
Bay Area group that works with community volunteers to remove invasive non-native flora, plant native species, and clean local creeks. 

San Pedro Creek Watershed Coalition
http://pedrocreek.org/
San Pedro Creek is the only watershed within 30 miles of San Francisco that supports migrating steelhead trout. The Coalition is committed to maintaining the watershed ecosystem through monitoring and adaptive management programs. 

Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Across the U.S.
http://www.state.ky.us/nrepc/water/vm.htm
Excellent site full of links to volunteer monitoring projects, both nationally and internationally. Includes resources for educators, monitoring projects for estuaries, and online data retrieval systems. 

Restoration Organizations 

• American Heritage Rivers Initiative U.S. EPA
• American Rivers Organized to protect and restore America's river systems and to foster a river stewardship ethic. Gateway to river restoration groups nationwide.
• American Whitewater Affiliation The mission of AWA is to conserve and restore America's whitewater resources and to enhance opportunities to enjoy them safely. 
• Friends of the Eel River Dedicated to restoring the Eel River and all her tributaries to a natural state of health and abundance.
• Friends of the River California's Statewide River Conservation Organization. 
• International Rivers Network
• River Revival International Campaign for River Restoration and Dam Decommissioning
• Mono Lake Committee 
• North American Lake Management Society
• Pacific Rivers Council
• River Net 
• European Rivers Network 
• River Network 
• River Watch Network RWN brings people together to monitor, restore, and protect their rivers. 
• Salton Sea Restoration Project 
• San Joaquin River Group Authority

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