September 28, 2024
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/28/2024
9:30 am-1:00 pm
Location
Saddle Mountain Open Space Preserve
Categories
We’ll be hosting our next Saddle Mountain Open Space Preserve Volunteer Patrol orientation on Saturday, September 28 from 9:30-1pm, open to participants 18 and over. Volunteer Patrollers provide an important service for Ag + Open Space, serving as extra “eyes and ears” on the Preserve and providing information about maintenance and stewardship needs. Participation in an orientation is required in order to be able to access the preserve for patrol hikes on your own time. The event consists of an on-site presentation on the history, features, and hazards of the preserve, and a three-mile round-trip hike to the summit of Saddle Mountain. The hike is moderately steep and pets are not permitted on the Preserve, other than service animals.
Saddle Mountain is a 960-acre preserve near the eastern boundary of Santa Rosa, within the ancestral homeland of the Wappo People. The Preserve provides habitat for a diverse array of native plants and wildlife, and protects portions of the Mark West Creek watershed and a portion of Ducker Creek in the Russian River Drainage Basin. Alpine, Weeks, and Van Buren creeks, which run through the property, feed into Mark West Creek where Coho salmon and steelhead swim.
The Preserve is not open to the public aside from guided hikes and trained volunteers. To register for the event, please email Monica Delmartini at Monica.Delmartini@sonoma-county.org no later than Monday, September 23. Registered participants will be sent additional logistics and volunteer materials closer to the event date.