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CREEK WEEK is an annual community event celebrating our local creeks and the ocean with many local groups sponsoring events to help build awareness and stewardship of the natural treasures of Santa Barbara.
The 11th Annual Creek Week took place Saturday, September 25th through Sunday, October 3rd, 2010. Click here for a printable schedule of events.
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Liz Smith
(805) 897-2606
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Fray Crease
(805) 568-3546
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Everett King
(805) 961-7565
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Erin Maker
(805) 684-5405
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Saturday, September 25th |
 26th Annual Coastal Cleanup Day
9am – 12pm
Various Locations
Coastal Cleanup Day is an international event to raise awareness of the issues of ocean and coastal conservation, to pick up litter, to encourage recycling, and to promote community pride.
Sign up to be a Beach or Creek Captain, or participate in cleanups at local beaches and creeks throughout Santa Barbara County!
Contact: Jeffrey Simeon at (805) 882-3618
http://www.lessismore.org/Programs/coastal
_cleanup.html
http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/ccd.html
RESULTS: Countywide, 1267 volunteers picked up 3840 lbs of trash and 1280 lbs of recyclables – that’s over 2.5 tons!
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 Lake Los Carneros Wildlife Habitat Restoration
9am – 12pm
Meet at the parking lot adjacent to the South Coast Railroad Museum off Los Carneros Road in Goleta.
Join friends and neighbors helping to restore the wildlife habitat that surrounds Lake Los Carneros. We’re continuing to plant, water, mulch, and weed. Hand tools, gloves, and good company will be provided.
Please RSVP: Julie Kummel
http://www.channelislandsrestoration.org/mainland.htm
RESULTS: Countywide, 1267 volunteers picked up 3840 lbs of trash and 1280 lbs of recyclables – that’s over 2.5 tons!
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Cleanup of Carpinteria, Santa Monica, and Franklin Creeks
9:30am – 12pm
Meet at Carpinteria City Hall, 5775 Carpinteria Ave.
Join the City of Carpinteria for their quarterly cleanup of Carpinteria creeks!
Contact: Erin Maker at (805) 684-5405 x415
RESULTS: 15 participants collected 122 lbs of trash and 84 lbs of recycling, along with a dead perch in Franklin Creek. They managed to clean the length of both concrete lined channels (Franklin and Santa Monica Creeks) and almost the entirety of Carpinteria Creek due to the good volunteer turnout.
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Tour of Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Park
10am
Meet at the park entrance at the corner of Sandyland and Ash Avenue in Carpinteria
Join the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Friends and the City of Carpinteria to learn about the relationships between the sea and our local creeks as you witness sharks and mullets up Franklin Creek. Enjoy the abundant bird life the merging of these two habitats creates. Witness the diversity of plants that the salty creek side environment can grow.
Contact: Andrea Adams-Morden at (805) 684-8077
RESULTS: While it was well over 100 degrees in Carpinteria on Sunday, six community members showed up to join Andrew Brooks, director of the UC NRS Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, on a tour of the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Park. Mr. Brooks discussed the importance of creeks in connecting local watersheds, as well as the role and importance of coastal wetlands.
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Sunday, September 26th |
 Tour and Planting of UCSB’s San Clemente Villages Habitat Restoration and Stormwater Management System
10am – 12pm
Meet at the western end of UCSB’s Lot 38 next to Harder Stadium
The Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) is hosting a tour of the San Clemente project and an opportunity to plant native plants.
Initiated in 2007, this 6 acre, innovative stormwater management project was recently awarded a best practices award for water efficiency and water quality. The site also includes a protected wetland and restoration of the locally rare southern tarplant.
Contact: Dave Harris, Project Manager
http://ccber.lifesci.ucsb.edu/
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Walking Tour of Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Park and Carpinteria Salt Marsh Preserve
10am – 12pm
Meet at entrance to the City of Carpinteria’s Salt Marsh Nature Park on Ash Avenue in Carpinteria
This walking tour of the City of Carpinteria’s Salt Marsh Nature Park and the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County’s Carpinteria Salt Marsh Preserve will focus on the physical and biological connections between local creeks and the Carpinteria Salt Marsh. The tour will highlight the importance of creeks as wildlife corridors and coastal salt marshes as biofilters. Visitors will have the opportunity to view two large salt marsh restoration projects that have been conducted within the Marsh for the past 10 years.
Contact: Dr. Andy Brooks at (805) 893-7670
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Marine Plastics Debris Study Data Collection and Analysis
3pm – 7pm
Meet at the parking lot at Campus Point at UCSB
Join Surfers Without Borders for a clean-up of Campus Point, as part of their Marine Plastics Debris Study.
Bags and gloves will be provided. Please bring water and a hat or sunscreen.
Contact: Loren at (805) 452-8249
www.surferswithoutborders.org
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Monday, September 27th |
 Mission Creek Steelhead Recovery Presentation
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Watershed Resource Center, 2981 Cliff Drive, at the Arroyo Burro County Beach Park
Learn about the City of Santa Barbara and Environmental Defense Center’s project to restore access for steelhead trout in Mission Creek.
Steelhead are the most endangered species in Santa Barbara, and they migrate into Mission Creek almost every year. The Caltrans flood control channels impede migration, and are the site of the longest steelhead restoration project ever planned.
Contact: Brian Trautwein at (805) 963-1622
www.edcnet.org
RESULTS: EDC’s Brian Trautwein, biologist Matt Stoecker, and Creeks Division Manager Cameron Benson provided a presentation to 25 community members summarizing the Mission Creek Steelhead barrier removal projects, then had an hour-long question and answer session.
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Tuesday, September 28th |
 Glen Annie Creek Cleanup
9:30am – 12pm
Meet at Goleta City Hall
Join the City of Goleta for a cleanup of Glen Annie Creek.
Contact: Everett King at (805) 961-7565
RESULTS: A combination of unseasonably warm weather and the fact that it was a weekday event (this is after all Creek Week, not Creek Weekend) kept the event at two participants, who were few but mighty, collecting 76 lbs of trash in just a little under 2 hours. Among the items collected were an automobile tire, a bicycle tire rim, a number of large plastic containers, and a traffic cone, along with plenty of bottles and cans, film plastic, plastic wrappers, cigarette butts, the ubiquitous bits of Styrofoam, and a partially buried (empty) cash register drawer.
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Higgins Springs Cleanup & Weeding
10am – 2pm
Meet at Higgins Springs in Carpinteria, cross over Calle Ochoa by the large Eucalyptus tree
The Carpinteria Creek Committee and the City of Carpinteria invite you to help with removal of invasive species around Higgins Springs.
Contact: Betty Songer at (805) 684-2525
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Wednesday, September 29th |
 Tree Planting and Care with Goleta Valley Beautiful
9:30am – 11:30am
Meet at the corner of La Goleta and Manzanillo
Join the City of Goleta and Goleta Valley Beautiful for tree planting and care at various Goleta creeks.
Contact: Everett King at (805) 961-7565
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Tour of the Carpinteria Creek Mouth Habitat Restoration Project
12pm – 1pm
Meet at the Carpinteria Creek Mouth, Carpinteria State Park
Join South Coast Habitat Restoration and Channel Islands Restoration for a tour of the recently started habitat restoration project. The project will remove non-native invasive plants from the mouth of Carpinteria Creek and plant native plants from the local area to enhance the biodiversity of the creek mouth.
Contact: Erin Brown at (925) 548-2659 RESULTS: A total of 6 participants joined in the habitat restoration tour.  
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Walking Wednesdays Mission Creek Walk
5:30pm
Meet at the Garden Street Parking Lot on Cabrillo Blvd. at the beach
Join COAST and Santa Barbara Walks for a Walking Wednesdays tour of Mission Creek from Canon Perdido to the beach. City of Santa Barbara staff will speak about elements of the Lower Mission Creek Flood Control Project and various Creeks Division projects. Meet at the beach, where a bus will be provided to shuttle participants to Canon Perdido Street, then walk back to the beach along Mission Creek (about 1.5 miles).
Contact: Courtney Dietz
RESULTS: 12 community members joined in the walk, learning about the City’s various projects along Mission Creek. Participants discussed fish passage projects, upcoming restoration projects, and entered the construction site to view progress on the Haley & De La Vina Bridge Replacement.
 
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Restoring Carpinteria Creek: An overview of the ongoing efforts to restore the watershed
6:30pm – 8pm
Meet at Island Brewing Co. 5049 6th Street in Carpinteria
Come hear a presentation by various members of the Carpinteria Creek Watershed Coalition and learn about local efforts to restore the Carpinteria Creek watershed. The presentation will cover topics such as restoring steelhead trout and removing non-native invasive plants.
Contact: Erin Brown at (925) 548-2659
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Thursday, September 30th |
 Storm Drain Marker Replacement with the City of Goleta
9:30am – 12pm
Meet at Goleta City Hall
Join the City of Goleta to replace storm drain markers. Storm drain markers serve as an important reminder to the community that everything that enters the storm drain flows directly to our creeks and ocean untreated.
Contact: Everett King at (805) 961-7565
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 Native Planting at Mission Creek at Oak Park
9:30am – 12pm
Meet at the Oak Park Tennis Courts parking lot
Join the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division, Horny Toad Activewear, and the Santa Barbara County Youth Corps to remove invasive ivy and plant native plants at the Mission Creek Restoration and Fish Passage Project at the Tallant Road Bridge in Oak Park. Please wear sturdy shoes. Tools, gloves, and refreshments will be provided.
Contact: Liz Smith at (805) 897-2606
RESULTS: 20 volunteers helped plant over 200 native plants at Oak Park! Horny Toad Activewear provided the bulk of the volunteers, with a few park neighbors joining in to help. Trash collected during the planting included many candy/chip wrappers, a few batteries, bottles, and cans.
 
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 Santa Barbara Harbor Bird Walk with the SB Audubon Society
5:30 – 7:30pm
Meet on the sidewalk next to the Sea Landing Sportfishing Building, 301 W. Cabrillo Blvd.
All birders should park on Bath Street or Mason Street (no time limit), or use paid City lot parking. We will bird the SB Harbor and Stearns Wharf Area. Target Birds: Waterfowl, Shorebirds, Peregrine Falcon, Song birds.
Contact: Jack Sanford
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Friday, October 1st |
 Habitat Restoration Workday at Coal Oil Point Reserve
9am – 12pm
Coal Oil Point Reserve, Click here for map & directions
Join the University of California Santa Barbara Natural Reserve System for a restoration workday at Coal Oil Point Reserve.
Contact: Tara Longwell
http://www.coaloilpoint.ucnrs.org
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 Bird Walk with the City of Goleta
5pm – 6:30pm
Meet at Goleta Beach County Park
Join the City of Goleta for a bird walk at Goleta Beach.
Contact: Everett King at (805) 961-7565
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Saturday, October 2nd |
Foothill Open Space Planting Day
9am – 12pm
 Meet at the Growing Solutions Nursery at the Foothill Open Space
The Foothill Open Space is located at the Santa Barbara County South Coast Recycling and Transfer Station off of Calle Real. In conjunction with the County of Santa Barbara, Growing Solutions is working to convert the land to a functioning native habitat and community open space. Snacks will be provided courtesy of the office of 2nd District Supervisor Janet Wolf.
To RSVP or for more information: Joddi Leipner at (805) 882-3614
http://www.countyofsb.org/pwd/pwrrwm.aspx?id=8980
http://www.growingsolutions.org/County%20Campus%20Restoration.html
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 Arroyo Hondo Preserve Creek and Canyon Tour with the Land Trust for the County of Santa Barbara
10am – 12pm
Arroyo Hondo Preserve, Click here for map & directions
The Land Trust for the County of Santa Barbara is offering a docent led tour along the Arroyo Hondo Creek. Meet at the Arroyo Hondo Preserve on the Gaviota Coast.
Please RSVP by calling (805) 567-1115. Contact Jane Murray for details.
http://www.sblandtrust.org/arroyohondo.html
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 Guided Tour of Coal Oil Point Reserve
2pm – 4pm
Coal Oil Point Reserve, Click here for map & directions
Join the University of California Santa Barbara Natural Reserve System for a guided tour of Coal Oil Point Reserve.
Contact: Tara Longwell
http://www.coaloilpoint.ucnrs.org
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Sunday, October 3rd |
 Goleta Stream Team with Channelkeeper
10am
Meet at the K-Mart parking lot at Hollister & Storke Road in Goleta, near the front of the K-Mart garden center.
Help collect water quality data at sites in the Goleta Slough watershed as part of Channelkeeper’s volunteer-based water quality monitoring program, Stream Team. Every month, Stream Team volunteers test common water quality parameters at up to 18 sites in the Goleta Slough watershed, including the seven major tributaries as well as the Slough itself. The outing will last 2-3 hours.
Please RSVP: Penny Owens at (805) 563-3377 x0
http://www.sbck.org
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 Creek Week Closing Celebration at the Watershed Resource Center
12pm – 4pm
2981 Cliff Drive, at the Arroyo Burro County Beach Park
Art From Scrap will host creek and ocean-related activities at the Watershed Resource Center.
Contact: Lindsay Johnson at 884-0459 x16
RESULTS: About 75 community members visited informational tables provided by organizations including the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division, Friends of the Douglas Family Preserve, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, Agua Pura, PoopPac, Environmental Defense Center, Chumash Maritime Association, and AFS Green Schools. The Chumash Maritime Association was in attendance and in the four hours of the event, they created a 12 foot long tule reed boat that will be launched and paddled later in the week! To see their creation, visit the Watershed Resource Center. There was also a very informative video shown about the Mission Creek Steelhead Restoration effort that was created by students.
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