Flats of native grass plugs are now available for order from Acterra's Native Plant Nursery.
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Wednesday Weed Warriors

5:30 pm - Sunset
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Redwood Grove Workday

September 11, 25
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California Coastal Cleanup Day

September 25
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Arnie Thompson
San Francisquito Watershed Project Director
arniet*acterra.org
or 650-962-9876 x310

Watershed Program
Los Trancos Creek

Acterra’s Watershed Program conducts education, outreach and restoration activities in the greater San Francisquito watershed area. The project hosts activities for and provides a wide variety of information to youth groups, corporate groups, local government agencies, NGOs, and members of the public. The project also hosts the San Francisquito Watershed Forum, a stakeholder groups consisting of a number of regional entities.

Restoration Projects
Sausal Creek Daylighting & Revegetation Project
Sausal Creek

Sausal Creek in Portola Valley, tributary of San Francisquito creek, was daylighted in 2008. Before daylighting, the creek flowed inside an underground culvert that provided almost no habitat value. Acterra coordinated the planting of thousands of native riparian plants along the creek and shrub and grassland species in the upper, drier areas of the site.

To date, hundreds of volunteers have planted over 10,000 plants and native grass plugs!  Our goal is to create a beautiful native plant garden that can be home to native insects, birds and other wildlife. The initial planting was completed in 2008 but there will be many opportunities to help maintain the site in years to come.

San Francisquito Creek Workday Sites

The watershed project hosts volunteer work parties throughout the year.  Volunteer activities include planting, weeding, watering, education and fun!  A map listing our project sites appears here.

For dates and locations of San Francisquito watershed workdays, please visit the Stewardship Program's "Get Involved" webpage.

Creek Cleanup Days
Group with Garbage

We hold scheduled creek cleanup days twice per year, on the 3rd Saturday in May for National River Cleanup Day and on the 3rd Saturday in September for California Coastal Cleanup Day.  We can also arrange creek and watershed cleanups for school, church or corporate groups by arrangement.  Contact the program director for more information.


San Francisquito Watershed Forum

The San Francisquito Watershed Forum holds quarterly meetings at the Peninsula Conservation Center.  Meetings are open to the public.  For meeting schedules and agenda and more information on the San Francisquito watershed, please visit our website at sanfrancisquito.org


Searsville Dam

Should the Searsville Dam, located within the San Francisquito watershed, be removed? Acterra has drafted a position statement about this proposed project. [READ LETTER]