Press & Media

Please contact Jenny Blaker, Outreach Coordinator and Media Contact with any media questions. Phone: 707-792 4422.

Articles:

The Community Voice
Please Note:
The Community Voice has upgraded its website and currently our links below, except for the first several items in the list, do not work. We are working to find out if there are updated links, but in the meantime, you can access the files in the pdf format (requires adobe acrobat reader). Sorry for any inconvenience.

Inside/Outside Nature Education Series
The following articles were published in conjunction with presentations (in the fall and winter) or guided walks (spring and summer) featuring local experts.

• Cotati Creek Critters intern's viewpoint (pdf), By Stevi Sprengle, May 27, 2010
  

• Getting outdoors with your preschooler (pdf), By Stephanie Derammelaere, April 29, 2010
  

• Essential living: be-ing rooted in place (pdf), By Cathie Haynes, April 1, 2010
  

• Topsoil: The Earth's Unsung Hero (pdf), By Patrick Picard, Owner of Equinox Landscape, February 25, 2010
  

• Is economic growth possible? Desirable? Sustainable? (pdf), By Bruce Macpherson and Jenny Blaker, January 28, 2010
  

• Discover the importance of wetlands (pdf), By Gerald Moor and Jenny Blaker , January 7, 2010
  

• Thinking beyond the bird feeder (pdf), By Liska Arata, December 7, 2009
  

• California's unique place in the world of biodiversity (pdf), By Wade Belew, November 5, 2009
  

• SSU and zoos team up to bring back turtle population (pdf), By Dr. Nick Geist, August 27, 2009
  

• Cotati Critters offer lecture on ‘going green’ (pdf) On August 1, 2009, speaker and author Laurel Marcus gave away free copies of her book The House & Garden Audit: Protecting Your Family's Health and Improving the Environment - a guidebook to reducing your impacts on the environment. Free copies are available from The City of Cotati's Planning Department (August, 2009) or from Jenny Blaker or from Laurel Marcus at laurelm@ix.netcom.com. See Updated and Corrected Internet Sites & Resources for an updated resource list.

• California grasslands and birds, by Lishka Arata, May 1, 2009 (pdf)

• Exploring the byways, bikeways and habitat of the Southern Laguna Watershed, by Jenny Blaker, March 27, 2009 (pdf)

• The strange and murky world of water policy, by Jake Mackenzie, February 27, 2009 (pdf)

• Oaks: Biology and significance, by Steve Barnhart, January 30, 2009 (pdf)

• Plastics: Convenient or deadly? by Stuart Moody, January 2, 2009 (pdf)

• Urban streams: Balancing humans and habitat, by Keenan Foster, November 26, 2008 (pdf)

• Ode to California's native grasslands, by Wade Belew, November 7, 2008 (pdf)

• Wild animals abound on Alpha Farm, by Denise Cadman, August 29, 2008 (pdf)

• The plant communities of Sonoma County at the Pepperwood Preserve, by Greg Damron,
  July 25, 2008 (pdf)
  
• Cotati Creek Critters: A three year retrospective, by Jenny Blaker, May 30, 2008 (pdf)

• Restoring the tools of restoration, by Wade Belew, May 2, 2008 (pdf)

• Earth Day trash pick up Sunday in Cotati, by Jenny Blaker, April 21, 2008 (pdf)

• Feathers really do make the bird, by John Dell'Osso, March 27, 2008 (pdf)

• Water, politics and power, by Andrew Roth, February 22, 2008 (pdf)

• Cotati was once on the ocean floor, by Rolfe Erickson, February 4, 2008 (pdf)

• Bird Monitoring - science in your own backyard, by John Dell'Osso, December 27, 2007 (pdf)

• The Plight of the pond turtle, by Dr. Nick Geist, November 29, 2007 (pdf)

• Habitat Gardening with California Native Plants, by Phil Van Soelen, November 2, 2007 (pdf)

• Native Grasses: The Misunderstood and Undervalued Understory, by Jeanne Wirka, September 21, 2007 (pdf)

• The Incredible World of Insects in Our Back Yard, by Frederique Lavoipierre, September 7, 2007 (pdf)
• What Happens to Wastewater?, August 3, 2007 (pdf)

• Exploration and Reconnaissance of Future Trails, by Joe Honton, June 29, 2007 (pdf)

• Exploring the Laguna de Santa Rosa, by Jenny Blaker, June 1, 2007 (pdf)

• Birds of Cotati, by John DellOsso: John DellOsso led a walk on Birds of Cotati, May 6, 2007. (pdf)

• Flavors of Home, by Autumn Summers: Autumn Summers led a walk on plants and their uses, April 2, 2007. (pdf)

• Local Native American Relationships with the Land, by Jenny Blaker (pdf)

• Cotati Meeting Feb. 5 on Wastewater Treatments, by Denise Cadman. Denise gave a presentation at the Community Recreation Center, Feb. 5, 2007. (pdf)

• Dazzling Dragonflies of the Laguna, by Kathy Biggs November 1, 2006 (pdf)

• Amphibians of Sonoma County, by Jenny Blaker October 27, 2006 (pdf)

• Gardening with Native Plants, by Liz Parsons Oct. 2, 2006 (pdf)

Other articles published in the Community Voice:

• Local environmental restoration organizations collaborate on climate change By Wade Belew November 5, 2009 ( pdf)



• Critters celebrating ecology and collaboration with open house, by Jenny Blaker October 27, 2009 (pdf)



• Cotati Creek Critters celebrate a milestone, by Heidi Bailey October 8, 2009 (pdf)



• The change starts here: Cotati's Jenny Blaker saving the environment one creek at a time, by Heidi Bailey, March 27, 2009 (pdf)



• Fall trash pick-up to become annual event, October 24, 2008 (pdf)

• Creek stewardship includes trash pick-up, by Jenny Blaker, October 3, 2008 (pdf)

• Cotati Creek Critters' Blaker Citizen of the Year, by Nicolas Grizzle, February 4, 2008 (pdf)

• Russian River 'First Flush' shows what's hidden in the water we drink, by Kate Symonds, November 16, 2007 (pdf)

• Diazinon no longer for your lawn, by Betti Lambro, November 16, 2007 (pdf)

• Be more than just a 'green' consumer, by Andrew L. Roth, October 12, 2007 (pdf)

• A new project underfoot: Cotati Creek Critters begin planting native grasses, by Betti Lambro September 28, 2007 (pdf)

• After 18 years, Laguna lovers convene once again, by Betti Faust April 6, 2007 (pdf)
  An article about the Laguna Foundation’s 2007 Conference on the State of the Laguna

• Planting the seeds of stewardship, by Betti Faust March 30, 2007 (pdf)
  An article about Acorn Soupe, an environmental organization which has worked with Cotati Creek Critters.

• Sonoma County nonprofit Circuit Rider Productions supplies Cotati Creek Critters with native plants, by Betti Faust March 2, 2007 (pdf)
  An article about Circuit Riders which has supplied CCC with plants.

• Cotati Creek Critters update, by Jenny Blaker September 29, 2006 (pdf)

• Earth Day really is every day for Cotati Creek Critters, by Nicolas Grizzle May 2, 2006 (pdf)

• Water is life, and the Cotati Creek Critters are ensuring high water quality, by Jenny Blaker December 29, 2006 (pdf)

• Why Watersheds? (pdf)
  Wade Belew ’s response to an editorial in the Community Voice regarding the newly erected watershed designation signs.
  

The Sonoma County Press Democrat

April 22, 2007 - Up a creek and lovin' it: Volunteers with cotati creek critters restore habitat, educate public, by Rayne Wolfe (pdf)

January 20, 2009 - A day of service, by Rayne Wolfe (pdf)
also see the associated photo slide show!

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