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Summer has arrived! You may be spending more time outdoors and noticing things around you like the beautiful quail families scooting around with a dozen chicks, or maybe you notice water in a creek that you thought would be dry this month. Did you know that this information is actually really helpful to conservation researchers as they look for solutions to issues like biodiversity loss and climate change?
 Help the ocean and coastal ecosystems Snapshot Cal Coast BioBlitz:
Help save imperiled salmon this summer: California Environmental Water Network Situational Awareness Inventory of California Drought Conditions
Help save Monarch Butterflies: Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program
Help save Bumble Bees: Bumble Bee Watch
Help reduce litter: Clean Swell app
Join a community of naturalists or birders: iNaturalist , Seek eBird
Find more community science projects at SciStarter or CitizenScience
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Meet Our Staff Conservationist
Alina Nuebel
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 Conservationist and Artist Alina Nuebel is passionate about supporting native pollinators. For Conservation Works, Alina designs memorable and unique participant experiences by fusing scientific knowledge with the creative arts. When not plotting new ways to engage the public's interest in pollination ecology, learning about grasslands, or planting habitat gardens, Alina paints murals and operates an art studio in Santa Rosa.
This coming year, Alina will provide art lessons combined with outdoor watershed science education to engage youth living in SW Santa Rosa with their local streams, then paint micromurals illustrating local habitat. Read about our recent Kids Creek Care activities in SW Santa Rosa in our article below.
Instagram: @a_nubbs
website: www.alinanuebel.wordpress.com.
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Kids Creek Care Engages Youth and Community in Action and Science
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 Conservation Works had a great year protecting Colgan and Roseland Creeks with the help of Elsie Allen and Roseland University Prep High School students! Check out this video from our 2021 cohort to hear directly from local youth why caring and advocating for local creeks matter! Creek Care Youth Action Group video.
Our 2021 Kids Creek Care program launched during “Creek Week” bringing families and neighbors together to clean over two miles of Colgan Creek, picking up thirty-nine pounds of trash the very first day we were together! Take-action activities continued over the year as students formed a Youth Action Group gathering together several Saturday afternoons over the school year to pick up garbage, remove invasive plant species, plant trees and native grasses, conduct water quality tests, plant and wildlife assessments, and learn all about conservation careers and environmental advocacy. This program will continue each year as we provide opportunities for youth to get involved in protecting and connecting to creeks in the watershed where they live.
 Our 2021-2022 Kids Creek Care program was made possible by the generous grant from the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment and support from the City of Santa Rosa and Sonoma Water Creek Stewardship Program. Stay tuned as this project continues in the 2022-2023 school year with a Micro Mural project, made possible by the Joseph & Vera Long Foundation, Contact Katharine Gabor for more information katharine@conservationworksnc.org
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Come learn how to address the climate crisis with us by joining our Climate Circles Book Club. Meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month from 6 to 7 pm. At each one-hour meeting, we have a local climate leader share how they are making a difference in our community, then we break up into small groups to discuss questions from the book and come back together to talk about solutions. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE READ THE BOOK TO ATTEND THE BOOK CLUB.
Join us Wednesday, July 20th where the theme is "Persist" pages 187-230 – Register
 To register, go to the Sonoma County library or register for each event through the links below.
August 17 – All We Can Save, Feel pages 231-286 – Register
September 21 – All We Can Save, Nourish pages 287-321 – Register
October 19 – All We Can Save, Rise pages 323-370 – Register
November 16 – All We Can Save, Onward pages 371-421 – Register
Please feel free to come to all or one of the events. For any questions please contact oona@conservationworksnc.org
We hope to see you there.
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Conservation Works seeks a part-time Intern Conservationist to assist with the development and delivery of outreach and educational programming for our Kids Creek Care in the Otis R. Johnson Wilderness Park and Mendocino County Bee Patches/Bee Bold Alliance projects. If you'd like to work outdoors with youth and the community and make a difference to keep our watersheds healthy and save pollinators, we would love to hear from you! See the full job description HERE
For any questions, please contact oona@conservationworksnc.org or call us at 707-978-4149
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Run out of Coffee? Keep the Buzz Going with a Monthly Coffee Subscription to Bee Bold. Click on the pictures above to pick your favorite roast!
Conservation Works is a Pollinator Partner with Thanksgiving Coffee Company. Purchase of their Bee Bold product line helps support our work as a Pollinator Protector. When you purchase Bee Bold Coffee online, we receive 20% of your purchase price to help fund our conservation programs.
Happy sipping!
Thank you Thanksgiving Coffee for all your support of our work restoring habitats for struggling pollinators
For any questions, please contact oona@conservationworksnc.org or call us at 707-978-4149
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