Total Volunteer Hours: 518

Total IPM Hours: 394

Above: 39 people participated in “Yoga in the Park” at McNear’s Beach Park on February 1, 2014. Prior to yoga, volunteers cleaned the

McNear’s shoreline and spruced up landscaped areas in the park.

Volunteer activity at Stafford Lake Park:

• Brandon- general park maintenance, bench repair, 24 total hours.

• Disc Golf Course Volunteers- 6 volunteers assisted with course maintenance and Ice Bowl

tournament preparations, 48 total hours.

Volunteer activity at McInnis Park:

• Community Service- 1 volunteer, litter and dog waste pick-up, 19 total hours.

• Assigned Hours- 2 volunteers, hand weeding (mallow), 16 total hours.

• Gallinas Watershed Council- creek clean-ups during “king tide” events on February 1st

and

February 16th

. Coordination by Art Reichert. Clean-up on 2/1 had 5 volunteers for 3 hours.

Clean-up on 2/16 included students from Terra Linda High School, 10 volunteers in total for 3

hours. Totals from both events= 45 hours from 15 volunteers.

Volunteer activity at McNear’s Beach Park:

• Ian- 2 days, litter pick-up and raking, 4 total hours.

• Yoga in the Park on February 1st

- 39 volunteers, litter pick-up and Mexican sage pruning. Staff

from LIFT-Levantate assists with outreach and lends yoga mats for event. Park Ambassador

Finola Diaz offers bilingual assistance for sign-ins, prepares hot lunch in McNear’s Beach snack

bar. Professional yoga teacher Daniel Rauck leads 45 minute yoga program. 115 total hours.

Volunteer activity at the Civic Center:

Marin County Parks and Landscape Volunteers

February 2014 Report

• Rich- litter pick-up at Avenue of the Flags, 20 total hours.

• Assigned hours- litter pick-up and weeding, 3 volunteers, 88 total hours.

Volunteer activity at Hal Brown Park at Creekside:

• Save The Bay and Greenwood School- 24 volunteers assist with native plant installation on

February 25th

, 72 total hours.

Volunteer activity at the Sausalito/Mill Valley Multi-Use Pathway:

• Pathway Stewards- 4 volunteers assist with litter pick-up, 20 total hours.

• Carol and Rand- Invasive species removal (fennel), 30 total hours.

Volunteer activity at Agate Beach:

• Arlene- litter pick up, 5 total hours.

Volunteer activity at Tiburon Uplands Nature Preserve:

• Broom pull event on February 26th

- 3 volunteers, 12 total hours.

Photos:

Above photos: volunteers assist with beach clean-up and landscape maintenance work at McNears Beach Park for “Yoga in the Park” on

February 1st

. Professional Yoga teacher Daniel Rauck led 39 people in a fantastic 45 minute yoga class. Parks Ambassador Finola Diaz offered

bilingual assistance for volunteers as they signed-in, and also prepared a hot lunch in the McNear’s Beach snack bar. Staff from LIFT-Levantate

helped with outreach and provided yoga mats for the event. Yoga in the Park is now part of Marin County Parks’ “Healthy Parks, Healthy

People” collaborative events calendar.

Above photos: Staff from Save The Bay and students from Greenwood School in Mill Valley assisted with native plant installation at Hal Brown

Park at Creekside on February 26th

, 2014.

Above photos: 3 volunteers assisted with French broom removal at the Tiburon Uplands Nature Preserve on Sunday, February 23rd

.