The Sierra Nevada Alliance is dedicated to improving Sierra waters for creating healthy watersheds. These are community groups with participation from a broad range of stakeholders in an area who are dedicated to protecting and restoring their watershed.
The Sierra Nevada Alliance has experienced that watershed groups have greatly benefited from hosting Creek Stewardship days and that in many cases Creek Stewardship Days were the first activity that helped launch a watershed group. Creek Stewardship days are a great way to educate a community about their local watershed, inspire volunteers to participate with an ongoing stewardship group, get needed work done, and have a good time. These often one-day events are a compilation of different activities that ideally attract a broad number of diverse participants from a community.
The Sierra Nevada Alliance has put this organizing guide together to help a group organize their first creek day. For over five years the Alliance has helped different groups organize a number of successful work days/creek days on limited budgets. This guide will help other communities get off to a great start in launching their first Creek Stewardship Day and start a tradition that will involve and inspire their community in watershed protection and restoration for years to come.
