Friends of Five Creeks

Friends of Five Creeks is an all-volunteer group founded in 1996 to protect and restore the watersheds of North Berkeley,Albany, Kensington, and south El Cerrito and Richmond: Schoolhouse, Codornices,Village, Marin, Middle, and Cerrito Creeks (including tributaries such as Blackberry Creek).

We meet the first Monday of each month at 7 PM downstairs in the Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Ave., Albany, CA. We also keep in touch via an active email newsletter, and a volunteer maintains a website on our activities.

Our activities include:

• monthly work parties at any of seven restoration sites -- typical activities are planting, remove invasive pest plants, doing erosion control, or installing "furniture" from benches to signs or litter cans.
• weekly “Weekday Weed Warrior” outings to remove invasive non-native weeds from our projects and those of others;
• water-quality monitoring of various kinds
• public talks, walks, and trips focused on watershed-related issues;
• advocacy and public education, from creating interpretive signs through “tabling” at fairs and festivals, writing and distributing fact sheets, and participating in decision-making meetings;
• working with religious, business, student, youth, and other groups who want to take part in hands-on restoration.

Creek restoration with Friends of Five Creeks
Friends of Five Creeks invites you to enjoy our creeks, explore our projects, and join us. Details are on our website, www.fivecreeks.org.