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Spring 2014

GWC wins MCL Award
Marin Conservation League, established in 1934 to protect Marin's natural resources, has awarded its Ted Wellman Water Award for 2014 to Gallinas Watershed Council.

We are deeply honored to receive this prestigious award. In their letter, MCL thanked GWC "for working tirelessly toward conservation and restoration of the Gallinas Creek Watershed." The award will be presented at MCL's annual dinner on Friday April 7 in Novato.

Our gratitude to MCL for their work over the decades which has kept Marin so beautiful and rich in natural resources.

Watershed Tours
GWC will be offering tours of the headwaters, bay, and city portion of Gallinas Creek in the upcoming months. Rachel Kamman, noted hydrologist and other local experts will be on hand to answer questions and provoke a new way of thinking about our creeks and waterways. March 15 and April 20 are our next two scheduled hikes. Additional details will be posted on the website.

MarinSEL program
In January, GWC began working with Terra LInda High School's "school within a school" program: the School for Environmental Leadership. This fabulous project-based learning program helps students develop real world work skills necessary to understand a problem or issue and then develop goals and strategies to address it.

Our project group is looking at Trash in the Watershed: where it comes from; its impacts; how to reduce it. We have had two clean ups with the group, detailing the kind of trash washing down into the marsh, creek and then the bay. Stay tuned for further updates as we dig deeper into TRASH!

Monthly Meetings
The GWC Board meets on the first Wednesday of the month at the Community Room on the second floor of the Northgate Mall above the food court. Meetings are from 7 - 9 pm. Everyone is invited. We discuss matters of interest concerning our local creek and bay area watersheds. The next meeting is March 5, 2014. 

 

See You in the Watershed!


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Watershed CD in the final stretch!
Our new collection of music inspired by water and watersheds will be out in April! To produce the CD we needed to raise $1900. With your support, we’ve already raised over $1500! Click here to help us reach our goal and pre-order your own copy of the CD before our campaign ends on March 23rd. Check out the full line of perks here. Be the one to put us over the top! Thank you.

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