Creek Stewardship
A Partnership of Citizens, the City of Santa Rosa, and Sonoma Water
The Creek Stewardship Program offers citizens who live, travel, and recreate along Santa Rosa's creeks the opportunity to protect and enhance the creeks they enjoy. An informed, supportive, and proactive community strengthens desirable qualities such as wildlife habitat, and public safety, while reducing problems such as illicit dumping, water pollution, illegal camping, erosion, and growth of non-native invasive plants.
The Creek Stewardship Program draws from the multitude of community resources to increase the public's appreciation and support for the environmental and social benefits provided by urban creeks. Activities include walks, creek cleanups, restoration work days, presentations on creek topics, and creek activities for youth programs. Working together, Sonoma Water, the City, and its citizens can enhance creek corridors to provide efficient transportation routes, safe neighborhoods, scenery, wildlife habitat, and recreation.
In-person Creek Stewardship events are currently postponed in compliance with Sonoma County Health Orders to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
The Creek Stewardship Program offers citizens who live, travel, and recreate along Santa Rosa's creeks the opportunity to protect and enhance the creeks they enjoy. An informed, supportive, and proactive community strengthens desirable qualities such as wildlife habitat, and public safety, while reducing problems such as illicit dumping, water pollution, illegal camping, erosion, and growth of non-native invasive plants.
The Creek Stewardship Program draws from the multitude of community resources to increase the public's appreciation and support for the environmental and social benefits provided by urban creeks. Activities include walks, creek cleanups, restoration work days, presentations on creek topics, and creek activities for youth programs. Working together, Sonoma Water, the City, and its citizens can enhance creek corridors to provide efficient transportation routes, safe neighborhoods, scenery, wildlife habitat, and recreation.
Creek Stewardship Calendar
In-person Creek Stewardship events are currently postponed in compliance with Sonoma County Health Orders to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Learn How to Become a Creek Steward
Copy and sign the documents below to become a Creek Steward
Preventing Pollution in Creeks
Every day we can act to protect local creeks by preventing
Click here for more information on how to prevent pollution at work and home.
Creek Master Plan
The Creek Master Plan recommends habitat preservation, enhancement, restoration projects, and improvements to the creek-side trail system, presented conceptually and specifically by watershed. Project recommendations are based on community input, literature reviews, and extensive field survey work. Our local creeks have the potential to enhance our hearts, our minds, our health, our connections to each other and with the natural world. It is up to all of us who live, work, and play in Santa Rosa to each do our part to help make the vision expressed in this Plan become a reality.
Click here to view Creek Master Plans.