East Palo Alto Baylands

Welcome to Collective Roots portal page to the East Palo Alto Baylands.

The East Palo Alto Baylands habitat is the point where the San Francisquito Watershed meets the San Francisco Bay. Collective Roots is seeking partners and funding for engaging students from East Palo Alto in the East Palo Alto Baylands. If you have any suggestions or interest in this effort, please contact Wolfram Alderson by clicking here.

This page is currently under construction. If you like to volunteer your assistance in this effort, please contact Wolfram Alderson by clicking here.

San Francisco Bay and Baylands Organizations

San Francisquito Creek Watershed Council

San Francisco Bay Watershed Database and Mapping Project

Save The Bay
Only Five Percent of Bay’s Original Wetlands Remain. Mass urbanization has drastically altered the Bay. People have diked and drained marshes to create agricultural fields and salt ponds and filled wetlands for development. Today, only five percent of the Bay’s original wetlands remain. View "Greening the Bay," Save the Bay's visionary plan for financing wetland restoration in the San Francisco Bay.

Cooley's Landing

• Invasive Spartina Project
• Public Use of Cooley Landing, 2003
• Salt Pond Restoration Project -Plan
• Salt Pond Restoration Project - Overview
• City of EPA Status Memo, 2003
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Official Shut Down of Romic

The Levees

• Eshoo Applauds Levee Repairs
• San Francisquito Watershed and Alluvial Fan Map

East Palo Alto Baylands Trails

City of East Palo Alto Bay Access Plan

Economics of Parks and Open Space

Environmental and Community Organizations

The Riekes Center for Human Enhancement
The Riekes Center for Human Enhancement provides a range of programs, including environmental programs that engage youth in the environment.

Bay Area Open Space Council
The Bay Area Open Space Council is a collaborative program of public and non-profit agencies and organizations, providing regional leadership and expertise for the preservation and professional management of important open spaces in and around the cities of the San Francisco Bay Area. A primary objective of the Council is to enhance the region's quality of life, by articulating the region's vision of which lands should be protected as open space through public ownership or conservation easements, and by developing financial and organizational resources to implement this vision.

Center for Eco Literacy
The Center for Ecoliteracy was founded in 1995 by Fritjof Capra, Peter Buckley, and Zenobia Barlow. The Center for Ecoliteracy is a public foundation that supports a grantmaking program for educational organizations and school communities, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area; convenes networks of its grantees; sponsors projects consistent with its mission; administers donor-advised funds; and manages a publishing imprint, Learning in the Real World®.

Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative
The WALC vision is that “low-income, inner-city students of color achieve greater academic success and grow into an interconnected community of activists as a result of their engagement in a transformative educational model that integrates environmental education and ecological principles with ethnic studies and social justice principles. We envision the dissemination of this model contributing to diversification within the field of environmental education and the environmental movement.”

Sustainable San Mateo
Sustainable San Mateo County (SSMC) was established in 1992 by a group of San Mateo County citizens who sought to create a broader awareness of the sustainability concept. SSMC is an independent non-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to educating the community about sustainability.

Conexions
Conexions develops and promotes win-win solutions for the environment, the economy, and for social systems through programs and by working in collaboration with other organizations and institutions.

1% For The Planet
Collective Roots is proud to be selected as one of the environmental organizations supported by 1% For The Planet, an alliance of businesses committed to leveraging their resources to create a healthier planet. Members recognize their responsibility to and dependence on a healthy environment and donate at least 1% of their annual net revenues to environmental organizations worldwide. The alliance aims to prove that taking environmental responsibility is good for business.

Environmental Volunteers
Environmental Volunteers (EVOLS) promotes the understanding of, and responsibility for, the environment through hands-on science education. EVOLS has provided exceptional support to Collective Roots over the last few years. This partnership has leveraged our joint organizational efforts to reach as many children as possible with environmentally based life science activities.

Canopy
Canopy is a Palo Alto-based non-profit advocate for the urban forest and works to educate, inspire, and engage the community as stewards of young and mature trees. Canopy is supporting Collective Roots with technical assistance involving tree selection and donating trees for planting at our school garden sites.

Hidden Villa Farm and Wilderness Preserve
Hidden Villa is a nonprofit educational organization that uses its organic farm, wilderness, and community to teach and provide opportunities to learn about the environment and social justice. Hidden Villa's mission is to inspire a just and sustainable future through it's programs, land and legacy. Hidden Villa currently provides programing for Collective Root's K-8 students and the organizations are working together to expand the partnership to other areas, as well.