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Hi Joe!
This is great stuff. Would you be interested in sharing links? Seems like we’re on the same team. Take a look:
http://www.lariverflyfishing.com
best,
Jim Burns (jburns84@hotmail.com
Cooool! I added you to our “Fellow Creekfreaks” link listing.
Hi! My daughter and I started working with Heal the Bay on Stream Team in the Malibu Creek Watershed about 9 months ago. Talk about a great way to see the creeks and meet other “creek freaks”. It has been an awesome experience and led us to all kinds of opportunities. Stream Team work led us to helping Sierra Pacific Flyfishers and Mountains Restoration Trust with a Crayfish Removal Project and we look forward to an amphibian counting project coming up. We’ve also found our way to creekside/wildland restoration projects with Treepeople/MRT.
The HTB Stream Team training session is coming up in May. They’ll train you to collect data and samples for their Citizen Science program. I HIGHLY recommend it. It’s been a boon for us to get to learn our way around to all kinds of places we never would have found on our own, and how to collect data to protect the streams, plus we keep meeting the nicest people.
Yvonne
I’m very glad to find this website. I explored LA creeks as a kid. More recently I have worked in LA creeks for 12 years, mostly in the Santa Monica Mountains. I know the streams within the Malibu Creek watershed better than anyone else alive. I am a compulsive writer and am glad to help out with this project. Give me an email and hopefully we can discuss this further.
I have today run across an exhibit at UCR/California Museum of Photography called “RiverRun” which is an exhibit by Sani Khalsa about the Santa Ana River. It runs from May 7th to August 13th. I believe this would be of interest to you. Keep up the good work for our L.A. River! I really enjoy your blog and have learned much. Thank you.
I saw you speak Jessica at the AltBuild Expo yesterday and yes, you really were inspirational! I have had a long time interest in local waterways so when I saw your talk listed on the program I had to check it out.
Your presentation was well organized and you are able to articulate your knowledge with a passion that is compelling. You mentioned a couple of times that you could talk about a certain subject for hours, I could have listened for hours
I wanted to say hi after and let you know how much I enjoyed it but I was with my son who had to get somewhere. I am looking forward now to exploring this site and to see how I can get involved.
Glad you were at Alt Build and hope LA Creek Freak gives you info that is helpful. Please let me know if you have any particular topics of interest or any local creek related stories of your own you’d like to share.
I’m very glad to find this website. I explored LA creeks as a kid. More recently I have worked in LA creeks for 12 years, mostly in the Santa Monica Mountains. I know the streams within the Malibu Creek watershed better than anyone else alive. I am a compulsive writer and am glad to help out with this project. Give me an email and hopefully we can discuss this further.
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Good morning!
I am a 5th grade teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy located in the MacArthur park neighborhood of Los Angeles. My colleague and I are starting an interdisciplinary unit in which our students will study biographies about environmental activists and issues. We want our students to see that these people are not of the past but are working on similar issues within our local communities today!
In order to bring this idea to life, we want students to have an opportunity to interview activists from organizations like yours. We are searching for someone who considers him or herself an environmental activist, currently working on a project, and who would love the chance to speak about what they do while inspiring children within a classroom environment.
Is there someone in your organization who fits this description? We hope so! We would love to invite him or her to our classroom the morning of Thursday, November 17th. Please let us know if there is someone who is available that day so we can get in touch with him or her.
We appreciate your time and effort and forward to hearing from you!
Elizabeth Salanave and Sumita Soni
5th Grade Teachers
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy – Harvard Site
635 S. Harvard Blvd.
Los Angeles, Ca. 90005
(213) 736 – 5542
Greetings, I have been enjoying this blog for over a year. It’s sweet! My daughter and I have been working with Heal the Bay’s Stream Team/ Stream water testing program. They are doing another training session for Stream Team/Citizen Scientists for the Malibu Creek Watershed if anyone is interested in volunteering. I spoke with the director yesterday and they are willing to review more applications for this weekend’s (11/10)training session–so disregard the due date in this link:
We have set the date for the next training for Stream Team volunteers. Training will happen twice a year in May and November – and the next one is on Saturday November 10, 2012 from 9am-1pm in Malibu Creek State Park. I decided to add a classroom component to this training to talk in a little more detail about what we measure, why we measure, and how the data is used. Then we’ll have the field training following that. Please spread the word and share this with friends and anyone that may be interested. Here’s a link with info and how to apply.
http://www.healthebay.org/event/stream-team-volunteer-training-0
Katherine Pease
thank you for all the fascinating posts!
Sincerely,
Yvonne B.
I always noticed this annoying pot hole on Clinton St and Cahuenga just below Melrose then realized one day it was always there year after year and always draining water. Remembered your blog and looked up the loction and behold a lost stream
Fascinating to see nature sometimes has to find its way.
Love LA history and what it was before thank you for informing us.