NEWS AND PRESS

NEWS AND PRESS

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2024

Menlo Park’s Coastal Cleanup Day event draws over 150 volunteers (Almanac)

Press Release: EPA Investing Over $43 Million in New Funding to Protect and Restore San Francisco Bay and Its Watersheds

2023

Southgate Beautification and Re-Greening Project (The City of Palo Alto)

Community Organizations Turn to Rain Gardens to Prevent Flooding in East Palo Alto (The Almanac)

Día de los Muertos celebrated in East Palo Alto (The Mercury News)

Dispatch Spring 2023 (Cal IPC, pages 3, 5, and 14)

Invasion of the Weeds (Los Altos Hills Our Town March 2023, page 6)

A native habitat restored: Numerous groups involved in Redwood Grove rebirth (Los Altos Town Crier)

Press Release: Grassroots environmental organization moves to a co-leadership model

25+ ways to celebrate the Lunar New Year around the Bay Area (Mercury News)

2022

Press Release: San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority Approves Funding for Community Based Habitat Restoration in East Palo Alto

Royally Flooded: Dispatches from the Highest Tides (Knee Deep Times)

2021

County Partners with Grassroots Ecology to Train Environmental Stewards (Santa Clara County press release)

Native Sycamore Propagation: A Collaborative Research Study (California Society for Ecological Restoration Quarterly Newsletter, Fall 2021, pages 3-7)

California Sycamore Hybridization with a Common Landscaping Tree and Implications for Restoration of Riparian Habitat (California Society for Ecological Restoration Quarterly Newsletter, Fall 2021, pages 8-10)

Museum hosts ‘Gardening with Native Plants’ (Los Altos Town Crier)

a new day at foothills park (Punch Magazine, pages 39-42)

2020

Grassroots Ecology accepted a Community Partnership Award from the San Jose Conservation Corps (Facebook video)

Palo Alto moves to expand access to 'residents-only' Foothills Park (Palo Alto Online)

Open Foothills Park to all? The costs are high, panel says
Experts: Expanded access can impact wildlife but careful strategies can protect preserve (The Almanac)

Green Thumb Gathering (Los Altos Town Crier)

Three Remarkable Lives Rooted in Memory Through Redwood City Parks (Climate Magazine)

2019

10 Fresh Ways to Give Back (Punch Magazine pages 115 and 128)

Protecting the Environment in Santa Clara County (ABC Local News)

Grassroots Ecology receives CREST Award for Sustainability Champion of the Year (3 min video)

Events held around Bay Area in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (KTVU news article and video clip)

2018

Kit Gordon’s Native Habitat

Hillview Environmental Club works to stabilize banks of San Francisquito Creek

Checking out our local water

Listen Up Bay Area Interview with Gerry Dove: Grassroots Ecology

Invasion of stinkwort worries environmentalists: Open space managers battle to keep weed from taking over

How Los Altos Hills took on an invader: Town and residents fight to control a noxious weed

2017

Restoring Open Space Preserves

Stanford’s Community Partnership Awards honor three service programs

City of Cupertino Recognizes Grassroots Ecology for McClellan Ranch Meadow Enhancement Project (video)

Grassroots Ecology "Youth Stewards at Stulsaft Park" video wins 2nd prize in 2017 Climate Action Film Contest, San Francisco Green Film Festival

2016

Youth Stewards at Stulsaft Park (2 minute video)

KPIX news spot: Bay Area nurseries are making progress defending against a deadly water mold called Phytophthora that keeps spreading

Native-plant nurseries seek to combat Phytophthora

Can local land managers, nurseries stop the spread of a deadly plant disease?

A visit to The Hawthorns, a bit of history hiding in plain sight in Portola Valley

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A new environmental organization with a long track record

Santa Clara County: Stevens Creek volunteers help check its waters

A new Environmental Education Center is coming to Cooley Landing

2015

Area Environmental Group Wins Wells Fargo and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grant

Silicon Valley group names water conservation award winners

Chamber, Weekly announce tall tree awards

2014

Byrne Brigade clears the way for native plants

Residents monitor Matadero Creek

Field work: Offering youth a natural way to learn and lead

2013

Barrier Removed From Peninsula Creek Allows Endangered Fish To Migrate

Philanthropy Series — Symantec Teams Up With Acterra to Bring Native Plant Garden to Mountain View Headquarters

Creek project will help endangered fish run free

Interview with a Water Warrior

Volunteer service at Redwood Grove provides dual benefits

2012

Eco-Sculpture Helps Restore Adobe Creek

2011

Volunteers Clean Up the Creek

Restoration at Redwood Park in Los Altos

Nectar From Above

2010

Redwood Grove rehab progresses

Teens restore a redwood grove (Video, 4:21)

Lawn gone: Workshop deals with replacing grass with native plants

2009

City council signs agreement to restore Redwood Grove