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Los Trancos – Happy Elves – Habitat Restoration: Yellow star thistle Removal
Los Trancos Open Space Preserve CA, United StatesJoin Midpen staff for a fun workday removing invasive yellow star thistle at Los Trancos Open Space Preserve. Staff will provide training on plant identification, removal techniques, and information about why we want to remove this plant from our local landscape. This project is an excellent opportunity for first-time volunteers! Want to learn more about […]
All Preserves Great & Small: Coal Creek
Coal Creek Preserve Palomar Park, CA, United StatesJoin Docent Naturalists Frances Reneau, Helena Cohen, and Paul Billig for the 15th in the "All Preserves" series celebrating the Midpen's 50th anniversary. Located in a hidden triangle area near Skyline Boulevard and a former section of Alpine Road, sits this small and popular preserve. Trail connections afford grand loops through adjacent preserves, and even […]
Give to the Grasslands: Volunteer in Portola Valley at Hawthorns Preserve
Hawthorns Preserve 4420 Alpine Rd, Portola Valley, CA, United StatesVolunteer your time to help increase biodiversity at Hawthorns Preserve. About this event Join us at Hawthorns Preserve in Portola Valley, a Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Preserve that is not yet open to the public! Help restore wildlife habitat to this essential grassland ecosystem and remove invasive plants! Volunteers should expect to walk over hilly, […]
Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve – Habitat Restoration: Teasel and Yellow star thistle Removal
Skyline Ridge Preserve La Honda, CA, United StatesDescription Join Midpen staff for a fun workday of removing invasive yellow star thistle and teasel at Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve. Staff will provide training on plant identification, removal techniques, and education about why we want to remove teasel from our local landscape. This project is an excellent opportunity for first-time volunteers! Want to […]
Weed Warriors
Edgewood County Park & Natural Preserve CA, United StatesCome help the California Native Plant Society’s Edgewood Weed Warriors program and protect Edgewood’s amazing biodiversity by controlling and removing invasive, non-native plants. We’ll have great opportunities to see native wildflowers and other plants, and to learn about local ecology from other volunteers and local experts. Friday sessions run year round. Meeting locations are determined […]
Bair Island Volunteer Workday
Bair Island CA, United StatesJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust and San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) for this fun and unique opportunity to help restore Bair Island! This special volunteer activity has the capacity for approximately 20 volunteers. Volunteers will be guided by SFBBO’s staff and POST Volunteers, and you will spend the morning weeding invasives, or planting native […]
The Bird Genoscape Project: Harnessing the Power of Genomics for Migratory Bird Conservation (Online)
Online CA, United StatesMost populations of migratory birds are now threatened. It is estimated that the populations of 1 out of every 2 songbirds are declining in the Western Hemisphere with impacts predicted to worsen with climate change. However, because migratory birds have breeding, migratory, and wintering areas and may move vast distances between them, understanding where the […]
Linda Mar Habitat Restoration
540 Crespi Drive, Pacifica 540 Crespi Drive, Pacifica, CA, United StatesMeet at Crespi Community Center parking lot, 10 a.m. start time. Monthly Linda Mar beach habitat restoration: pull invasive weeds. COVID-19 Rules Wear your mask and respect social distancing BYO tools: bring your own reusable gardening gloves, pruning shears, hand trowel and shovel We will keep the numbers of volunteers very limited so please sign up […]
Weed Warriors
Edgewood County Park & Natural Preserve CA, United StatesCome help the California Native Plant Society’s Edgewood Weed Warriors program and protect Edgewood’s amazing biodiversity by controlling and removing invasive, non-native plants. We’ll have great opportunities to see native wildflowers and other plants, and to learn about local ecology from other volunteers and local experts. Friday sessions run year round. Meeting locations are determined […]
Linda Mar State Beach Habitat Restoration with Pacific Beach Coalition (Pacifica)
Linda Mar State Beach 5000 Pacific Coast Hwy, Pacifica, CA, United StatesRead our COVID-19 Regulations Please follow the following rules to keep everyone and our Habitat Restoration site captains, safe and healthy: Wear your mask and respect social distancing BYO tools: bring your own reusable gardening gloves, pruning shears, hand trowel and shovel We will keep the numbers of volunteers very limited so please sign up in […]