Climate change is making California hotter, drier, and harder for people and wildlife. Beaver can help.

Please join CUSP on April 7 (International Beaver Day) and April 9 for the California Beaver Summit. During two online half-day sessions the summit will explore the many benefits that beavers offer to the ecosystems they occupy. Beaver are of increasing relevance and importance on urban streams. Learn about the history, ecology, biology and restoration implications for urban watersheds.

For more information and to register, visit www.cabeaversummit.org

Thank you to the neighbors and community members who came out for our workdays in November! After successfully planting willows, alders, buckeye, oaks, and bunch grasses, we are looking forward to seeing the growth at the site. We will be hosting future maintenance, weeding, and clean-up workdays in the Spring and Summer of 2021 as public health conditions allow.

Over the past twenty years about 2000 feet of Codornices Creek has been restored to enhance fish habitat and address past flood damages to University Village, University of California Berkeley student housing, led by the City of Albany. The project contains a regional trail and interpretive signage. CUSP is adding to this effort by partnering with the City of Berkeley to restore an upstream reach located between San Pablo Avenue and Kains Avenue on the border of Albany and Berkeley. The project has been made possible with funding from the California Department of Water Resources Urban Streams Restoration Program of Water Resources and the Schwemm Family Foundation. This 400-foot reach of creek located adjacent to low income housing has been ditched and degraded by failing concrete walls. The project will transform a one third acre weed strewn vacant lot into a neighborhood park and restore the creek channel, floodplain and riparian corridor. Fish habitat structures will be added for the Codornices Creek steelhead. Construction was completed in winter of 2020, along with a community planting day. Community planting and restoration projects will continue into 2021. Interested in volunteering on this creek restoration project? Get in touch.

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The CUSP collaborates in a statewide coalition called the California Watershed Coalition in order to communicate to our state legislators and agency managers how stream restoration projects can solve many practical problems such as flooding, stormwater management and flood damages while enhancing wildlife habitat and making streams neighborhood assets.  The California Watershed Coalition is composed of the California Urban Streams Partnership, California Watershed Network, Sonoma Ecology Center, Sierra Nevada Alliance, Northern California Council of Flyfishers, Sacramento River Watershed Program, California Association of Resources Conservation Districts, and Salmonid Restoration Federation. An important emphasis of this educational effort is our support for the state grant programs that support our local work with our partners in cities, counties and districts.  

Join us and our statewide partners for Watershed Day at the Capitol. This is great way to learn about state government, meet key players in state policy positions and make friends with other organizations from all regions of the state.

Want experience visiting state legislators?

Send us an email at custreams@gmail.com

For Your Calendar: Next Watershed Day At the Capitol is April 10, 2020. Check back with this website for details or visit the website of our partners, the California Watershed network. http://www.watershednetwork.org/