Join our terrific partner, the Alameda Creek Alliance (ACA), for a for a van-based tour of Alameda Creek fish restoration projects!

Jeff Miller, ACA Director, and Steven Cochrane, volunteer coordinator, will lead the full-day watershed tour from the flood control channel and new fish ladders in the lower creek, to Little Yosemite in Sunol Regional Wilderness along upper Alameda Creek. CalTrout’s Claire Buhanan will also be speaking at the event. 

Jeff will have copies of his new book, Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide, to be published by Heyday books next month.

Please plan to bring a lunch and water bottle. There will be some walking required: one mile on level pavement at the lower fish ladder; two miles round-trip on a dirt fire road to Little Yosemite. There will be a small donation requested to support with transportation costs.

Excited to kick off the holiday season together!

Where: Multi-spot van-tour around along Alameda Creek: begins at Fremont 

When: Sunday, November 17, 2024

Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Please RSVP by emailing jeff@alamedacreek.org, or reach out to him with any questions!

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Tour Itinerary: 

9:00 – Start at Niles Community Park. At 9:10 we will walk down to the BART weir (a little over 1 mile walking round trip, level trail).
9:30 – ACWD staff will meet us for a fish ladder tour
11:00 – Drive to Sunol
11:30 – Visit Sunol Water Temple and site of the soon-to-be-finished Watershed Center. A fisheries biologist from the SFPUC will meet us there and speak about fish monitoring. This is our lunch stop (please bring your own!) and bathrooms.
12:30 – Visit the PG&E fish passage project site in Sunol Valley. We (CalTrout) will meet you there and talk about the project.
2:00 – Drive to Sunol Regional Wilderness. An East Bay Parks naturalist will meet us at the Visitor Center. Then a short drive to the parking area, where an East Bay Parks fisheries biologist will meet us. Then a two-mile round trip (slightly uphill, on a fire road) hike to Little Yosemite.

3:30 – Return to Fremont
4:00 – End at Niles Community Park