Watershed Workshop Forms & Rallies

Santa Fe Dam and Galster Wilderness Nature Center education opportunities.  Please stop by both the Nature Center Network web page and the Galster Wilderness Nature Center web page for more information.

Welcome to the gateway to the San Gabriel Mountains Regional Conservancy (SGMRC), a nonprofit public benefit corporation. SGMRC is devoted to watershed management and a great variety of other projects in the San Gabriel River Watershed of eastern Los Angeles County. Included in the region are the San Gabriel Mountains, River, Valley and related areas.

Our mission is to promote the preservation of land and/or buildings for historic, educational, ecological, recreational, or open space opportunities. You play a huge part in completing this mission.

Great headway has been made since 1997 when the SGMRC was established in developing numerous partnership activities and in grants and donations made to the conservancies and land trusts of the San Gabriel Valley. Among such recent planning efforts and transactions for preservation, more than 1,500 acres of open space have been strategically targeted to protect watershed, regional wildlife, open space corridors and mutual resource protection for multiple purposes. Your help is needed in many ways to assist in this mission and to protect the watershed of the San Gabriel River from its headwaters in the mountains to the Pacific Ocean at Seal Beach.

The backbone of the San Gabriel Mountains Regional Conservancy is the many people who devote their time to the organization. There are a number of volunteer opportunities that may interest you as Docents, Trail Guides, Office Personnel, Program Presenters and Program Assistants at the Santa Fe Dam and Galster Wilderness Park Nature Center. There are committees being formed, coffee klatches being held and workshops scheduled to which you may be able to contribute.

Projects are underway through SGMRC that may be of particular interest to you and to which you could offer expertise and time. These include the Santa Fe Dam and Galster Wilderness Park Nature Center and adjoining Native Plant Garden Project, Environmental Roundtables, Mitigation Projects, Land Acquisition Planning and Projects, as well as the comprehensive San Gabriel River Watershed Management Plan. As you can see, there are many different interests that may match your own and we really need your input and assistance.

Donations, of course, are always welcome. Donations can be cash, in-kind donations, office space, a life insurance policy with SGMRC as the beneficiary, land and/or historic buildings. You could donate your historic home to the organization and continue to live there for your lifetime.

We would be happy to hear from local and regional agencies and organizations that offer grants for which we may apply that would assist in the acquisition and management of watershed properties.

Please explore this gateway at your leisure. Comments, suggestions, questions, donations and offers of assistance may be sent to:

SGMRC
P.O. Box 963
Glendora, CA 91740

or e-mailed to glcroissant@csupomona.edu. We look forward to hearing from you.

Photos courtesy of Gabi McLean, ©Gabi McLean 2004
Treat yourself to the CD, "Common Plants of Eaton Canyon and the San Gabriel Foothills Field Guide", available at:
http://www.natureathand.com/

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