Join FOPCW, Earth Team, and the City of Pinole in celebrating Earth Day on April 20! This event will be in lieu of our monthly cleanup. Register for the walk at the link below or just show up for the finish-line activities!

Please Register for our Student Art Contest by April 12th.

Registration Link: https://www.ci.pinole.ca.us/cms/One.aspx?portalId=10947056&pageId=19336541&userId=d98174c56fa44cc7881b75ec266a2acd

We are excited to partner with the Xerxes Society and the Bumble Bee Atlas Team to offer this public training on April 13. We will meet in the Pinole Public Library meeting room for training and treats and then go out into the garden to practice netting and identifying bumble bees. This community-science project promises to add data and deeper understanding to the plight of native pollinators. Please register at the link below or on the flyer as space is limited! (Word has it that KPIX is interested in continuing its story on our work welcoming pollinators, now that would be cool!) 

Registration link.  https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/e416f64ada5443819b30711d64d918d8

Despite officially canceling our event due to rain,15 hardy souls showed up to pick up trash along the Shoreline. We got 50 gallons and 118.5 pounds of trash including a tire, a big plastic container lid and lots of Styrofoam bits. Way to go, Pinole Creek Allies!

HOSTED BY PVHS EARTHTEAM

We had a great turnout despite the rain. Around 40 volunteers joined us including the mayor and 2 police officers! On top of the usual trash, we removed 2 tires and a bumper.

FoPCW is excited to sponsor the 2023 Contra Costa Creek and Watershed Symposium. We will have an informational table at the event.

The Contra Costa Watershed Forum is excited to welcome community members and watershed stakeholders to register for the 2023 Watershed Symposium. The theme of this year's Symposium, Intergenerational Watershed Stewardship, seeks to open an inclusive and practical dialogue between established watershed advocates and the emerging generation of watershed stewards. We hope that you’ll join us for a day of speakers, panel discussions, networking, and more.

This event will take place on October 26th, 2023 and will be followed by optional field trips on October 27th.

REGISTER FOR THE SYMPOSIUM HERE 

Coastal Cleanup Day is the largest volunteer day of the year. Across California and around the world, community members will cleanup their local coastlines.

California Coastal Cleanup Day

Contra Costa County Coastal Cleanup Day sites map

Join the City of Pinole’s Coastal Cleanup from 9 am to Noon (registration begins at 8:30 am) at Bayfront Park. All ages welcome. Great opportunity to earn Community Service hours. Questions? Call: 510-724-9010 or Email: publicworks@ci.pinole.ca.us

Thanks to the Rotary Club for hosting and showing up! Thanks to St Joseph School for letting their students know about the cleanup! The girls (and their moms) who showed up were great! The weight and volume are almost identical to that collected in May at the same place but it was discouraging to pick up the number of cigarette butts found behind the library. Maybe a receptacle would be a good answer there? Participants also dragged 2 grocery carts out of the creek. All in all, it was a successful event. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Friends of Pinole Creek Watershed participated in the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District’s first-ever Shoreline Festival on May 20th, 2023. The Shoreline Festival brought over 6,000 community members together to celebrate the recently cleaned-up Crockett Waterfront.

Friends of Pinole Creek & Earth Team tabled with awesome activities like “guess the weight of the trash bag”.

Friends of Pinole Creek Watershed is pleased to welcome community members to a bird walk with the Golden Gate Audubon Society. The Golden Gate Audubon Society engages people to experience the wonder of birds and to translate that wonder into actions which protect native bird populations and their habitats. 

Derek Heins, guest speaker at the Birds of our Watershed talk, led a bird walk in the Pinole Creek Watershed.

On February 2nd 2023, Guest speaker, Derek Heins from the Golden Gate Audubon Society presented about bird life in the Pinole Creek Watershed.

The Golden Gate Audubon Society engages people to experience the wonder of birds and to translate that wonder into actions which protect native bird populations and their habitats.