Partners
Local Creek Groups
- Friends of Sausal Creek
- Friends of Peralta Creek and Park
- Friends of Glen Echo Creek - Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood Improvement League
- Butters Land Trust "Protecting the Headwaters of Oakland's Peralta Creek"
- Garber Park Stewards
- Friends of San Leandro Creek
- Alameda Creek Alliance
Non-Profits, Community, Education
- San Francisco Bay Joint Venture (wetlands information)
- San Francisco Estuary Institute
- San Francisco Estuary Partnership
- International Rivers Network
- Save San Francisco Bay Association
- Urban Creeks Council
- Lake Merritt Institute
Government Oakland/Alameda County
- Oakland Museum's Guide to Bay Area Creeks and other creek info
- Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program; includes information about Best Management Practices ("BMPs") for construction and maintenance projects
- StopWaste.Org offers programs in source reduction and recycling and provides information and technical assistance to the public including the Bay-Friendly Landscaping and Gardening guidelines.
- Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District
- Alameda County Office of Education
- Oakland Recycles
State/Federal
- California Coastal Conservancy
- California Coastal Commission
- Environmental Protection Agency Volunteer Monitoring Site
- Environmental Protection Agency Surf Your Watershed Site for the San Francisco Bay Area
- Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Across the U.S.
- California All Trails contains trail-related information for the entire state
Permitting Agencies
- City of Oakland, CEDA, Permitting Division
- San Francisco Water Quality Control Board
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Army Corps of Engineers
- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (CEQA is processed through the City of Oakland, Planning & Building Department)
Native Plants & Gardens
- East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden
- California Native Plant Society
- East Bay Chapter of California Native Plant Society
- California Native Plant Discussion Group
- Native Habitats (nationwide listing of habitat restoration groups, volunteer projects, and other native plant resources)
- Merritt College Landscape Horticulture Department information
- Garden Net Resource for finding gardening organizations and information, including native plant and 30 other types of gardens
- Garden Web More gardening information
- Society for Ecological Restoration
Other Websites & Resources
- Low-Impact Urban Design Tools for Water
- Best Management Practices (BMPs), strategies for minimizing impacts during construction from the Alameda County Clean Water Program