How to Participate
Volunteer
Help keep your community beautiful by coming out to one of our many clean-up and restoration events throughout Creek Week.
Go on a Nature Walk
Explore the beauty of our surroundings by attending guided nature walks in and around our creeks, beaches, and watersheds.
Attend a Guided Tour
Learn what local governments, non-profits, and service organizations are doing to restore our watersheds and improve creek and ocean water quality.
Schedule of Events
View Printable Schedule (Updated 9/9/19)
If you are curious about what happened to Montecito with the fire and then the flood, this is the hike for you. The plants have come back fairly well from the fire, but the creek[...]
Be part of the Solution! Coastal Cleanup Day is on Saturday, September 21, 9am-12pm. With more than 30 sites to choose from in Santa Barbara County, it’s time to show your favorite beach or creek[...]
Pick up a free used motor oil container at the Community Hazard Waste Collection Center. UCSB Building 565, Mesa Road. Contact LRobins@cosbpw.net for details or visit www.lessismore.org.
Join in a docent-led tour of The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County’s Arroyo Hondo Preserve. RSVP Required at www.sblandtrust.org, select “Arroyo Hondo Reservations.”
Join the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division for a tour on the Land Shark! Learn about our efforts to protect and restore local creeks and watersheds, as we visit project sites on land, then[...]
Join in a docent-led tour of The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County’s Arroyo Hondo Preserve. RSVP Required at www.sblandtrust.org, select “Arroyo Hondo Reservations.”
Join Urban Creeks Council for a panel discussion on watershed recovery in Montecito with local experts including: Moderator Geoff Green, president of the SBCC Foundation Dr. Barry Keller, a hydro-geo-physicist, and former City of Santa[...]
Join the Urban Creeks Council’s Eddie Harris for a walking tour of Old San Jose Creek. Meet at the gazebo at Goleta Valley Community Center, 5679 Hollister Avenue. For details contact sbucc@silcom.com.
Join naturalist and field guide author Mike Kresky and the Urban Creeks Council’s Louis Andaloro for a creek walk along Cold Springs Creek. Meet at the Cold Springs Trailhead on East Mountain Drive off Cold[...]
Tour the City of Santa Barbara’s El Estero Water Resource Center. Learn about the physical, biological, and chemical processes used to treat wastewater from our plant operators and scientist. RSVP required to Mariana Cruz at[...]
Join the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division for a tour of our Upper Arroyo Burro Restoration at Barger Canyon. In late 2013, the Creeks Division purchased a 14.19 acre parcel on Foothill Road along[...]
Join the Urban Creeks Council and special guests for a walking tour of the Hidden Valley Open Space. We will be discussing both the natural history and restoration potential for this area. Meet at the[...]
Join the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division and The Bartron Group to help install native plants along Arroyo Burro at the Creeks Division’s recently completed restoration site. Meet at the Arroyo Burro Open Space[...]
Why is sediment deposition on our local beaches important? Come hear local expert discuss how the local watershed functions and why mimicking the natural sediment processes is important. Join the City of Carpinteria and BEACON[...]
Come tour the recently restored North Campus Open Space, a 100 acre wetland and upland restoration project located on a former golf course! Learn about the benefits of wetland restoration including reducing flooding, improving water[...]
Drop in event! Join in a trail beautification project led by Ray Kolbe. Meet at Santa Monica Creek trail, west end of El Carro Lane in Carpinteria. Contact Ray at rwkolbe@gmail.com or (805) 705-3429 for details.
Explore the Carpinteria coastline and learn about the local watershed with this land and sea tour. Kayak along the coast where you will have a view of the top of the watershed in the mountains[...]
Learn how working falcons frighten away seagulls and thereby reduce bacteria in water from their droppings. Meet the falconer at the office parking lot before entrance to South Coast Recycling and Transfer Station.
Meet at the Berkeley Foot Bridge on Berkeley Road at San Jose Creek in Goleta. Help the Environmental Defense Center, City of Goleta, and Santa Barbara Urban Creeks Council remove trash from San Jose Creek![...]
Tour the University of California’s Salt Marsh Reserve. Join Dr. Andrew Brooks, Director of the University of California’s Natural Reserve System’s Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, for a two hour walking tour of the salt marsh.[...]
Join the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division, Explore Ecology, and County of Santa Barbara Project Clean Water for a film screening and celebration of this year’s Creek Week. The featured films will include Fishpeople[...]
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Contacts
Liz Smith
City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division
lsmith@santabarbaraca.gov
(805) 897-2606
Cathleen Garnand
County of Santa Barbara Project Clean Water
cgarnan@cosbpw.net
(805) 568-3561
Michael Winnewisser
City of Goleta Public Works
mwinnewisser@cityofgoleta.org
(805) 690-5120
Erin Maker
City of Carpinteria Public Works
erinm@ci.carpinteria.ca.us
(805) 684-5405 x415
Nick Bruce
UCSB Environmental Health & Safety
nicholas.bruce@ucsb.edu
(805) 893-8997
Lindsay Johnson
Explore Ecology
lindsay@exploreecology.org
(805) 884-0459
