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Discovering a Sense of Place Walk

cascade_canyon.jpg  When: March 21, 2010                                  

   Location: Cascade Creek in Fairfax

   Time: 9am-11am

   Bring: binoculars and plenty of water.

Donation: $10 suggested.

Meet at Sustainability Center 141 Bolinas Rd in Fairfax and we'll carpool from there!

This is a Family Friendly walk and all ages/levels are welcome!

 "Of all the memberships we identify ourselves by the one thing that is most forgotten, and that has the greatest potential for healing, is place. We must learn to know, love, and join our place even more than we love our own ideas. People who can agree that they share a commitment to the landscape/cityscape -- even if they are otherwise locked in struggle with each other -- have at least one deep thing to share."

- Gary Snyder

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Join us on a walk engaging the use of sight, sounds, and touch to connect us to a sense of place and explore what it means to protect where you live.

Participants will explore the headwaters of Fairfax along Cascade Creek in the Elliott Preserve and search for fry of this year's steelhead, while discovering migratory songbirds and a sense exploration along the way.

For further information on this walk contact Rachel DeMicco, Community Education Chair ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

This walk will be lead by Paola Bouley who is a community ecologist working to protect and restore native ecosystems and endangered species.  She is passionate about community-based conservation and restoration and currently serves as President of Sustainable Fairfax and is the Conservation Program Director Salmon Protection and Watershed Network's (SPAWN) where she helps build volunteer-led education, monitoring and restoration projects to restore and protect endangered Coho salmon in the Lagunitas Creek Watershed.

Please bring sturdy shoes, binoculars, your favorite field ID books, water and snacks.
Walk or Bike to the end of Cascade Dr. or meet at the Sustainability Center at 8:45 for carpool.  Parking is very limited.

 

 
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