On a cool, damp morning in April, nearly 100 people gathered for the second BioBlitz event at Coyote Meadows. We gathered 10-15 citizen scientists who were grouped with 1-2 experts in various fields: plants, bugs, birds, animals. Over the course of two hours, people wandered the area looking for things to…
Coyote Meadows BioBlitz for Fall: A Wonderful Experience (November 5, 2017) On a crisp November morning, about 50 people, including families with young children, came together to identify plants, bugs, birds, and other living things in the Coyote Meadows area situated south of Highway 280 and Story Road near Kelley…
Here at Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, we rely heavily on community outreach. Whether it’s recruiting interested volunteers for our cleanups or getting folks involved in our recreational and educational activities, our goal is to ultimately engage local communities to become Coyote Creek advocates and caretakers! Spreading the word this week…
On Monday, Feburary 20, 2017, water began to flow over the Anderson Dam spillway. The Santa Clara Valley Water District had been releasing water since early December through the outlet (not spillway) to reduce the volume of water in the creek. It definitely had some downstream impacts. Our January cleanup was…
This was my first year participating in the Homeless Point in time Census. I’d read the numbers from year’s past, but to go out at 5:30AM and work as a team to count homeless people was surreal. We had a guide who was homeless. Goldie was excited to help with…
This week, I had the opportunity to go “salmon hunting” with Steve Holmes and Brian Allee of the South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition. Earlier in the week, they had seen several fish, including REDDs. And, I did get to see one, albeit a dead one. That outing was still worth…
On September the 8th at the McKinley Neighborhood Center, the first Coyote Meadows Coalition Community Meeting was held to share ideas for reclaiming Coyote Meadows, a nearly 50-acre parcel of land at the intersection of Story and Senter roads in San Jose. Over thirty people attended the meeting and among them Angel…
On Sunday, June 5th, we hosted a Jane’s Walk to share the plants, birds, and animals around Coyote Creek at Hellyer County Park. This event featured our very own Alie and Bruce Victorine, who are active creek cleanup group leaders, and happen to be avid birdwatchers. They shared their passion…
Homelessness has been a huge barrier to restoring many of our waterways in the South Bay. The persistence of people living on the banks of our creeks has brought not only environmental damaget to the banks and plants and animals, but also brings a lot of trash. One of the…
Every now and then, something catches the eye. Art from trash…art about trash. Recently, we’ve been seeing more plastics, especially Styrofoam, in our waterways and at our creek cleanups. Surely you’ve hear of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (actually there are two, and five around the world) where plastics float…
