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Events and Communications Specialist | Sonoma Ecology Center
SEC seeks an Events and Communications Specialist to play a critical role in ensuring the organization achieves its plans for growth in alignment with its mission, vision, and values. The Events and Communications Specialist will be responsible for marketing all of Sonoma Ecology Center’s events, managing the organization’s suite of websites, and collaborating with the organization’s staff and partners to ensure strategic communications alignment.
Writer/Content Creator | Sonoma Ecology Center
SEC seeks a Writer/Content Creator to play a critical role in ensuring the organization achieves its plans for growth in alignment with its mission, vision, and values. The Writer/Content Creator will be responsible for all of Sonoma Ecology Center’s written and multi-media content.
Environmental Planner/Project Manager | Sonoma Ecology Center
Sonoma Ecology Center (SEC) seeks a detail-oriented, forward-thinking person to shepherd complex environmental projects to completion, from inventing fundable packages of tasks and partners, to writing compelling proposals, contracting, permitting, environmental compliance, funder/client/subcontractor relations, tracking, reporting, and completing projects.
Improving Soil Health Using Biochar Throughout the East Bay | Sonoma Ecology Center
Since 2022, Sonoma Ecology Center has worked with Earth Foundries as a consultant on numerous initiatives aimed at studying ways biochar can be used to improve soil health projects and provide other ecological benefits beyond Sonoma Valley.
Sonoma Ecology Center Begins Creek Restoration at Morton’s Warm Springs | Sonoma Ecology Center
A new partnership will improve creek health and foster wellness through connecting with nature. The first major project advancing Sonoma Ecology Center’s long-term plan to improve the health of Upper Sonoma Creek has broken ground at Morton’s Warm Springs in Kenwood.
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park Wildflower Update 6.10.2024 | Sonoma Ecology Center
Summer is here and there is still much to see! Explore the diverse flora on the Lower Bald, Bald Mountain, Vista, Headwaters, Meadow trails. Check in each week to see what's blooming or fruiting and where. Conditions change weekly, offering a unique experience each visit. Report and Pictures brought to you by James Webb
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park Wildflower Update 6.14.2024 | Sonoma Ecology Center
Explore the diverse flora on the Creekside, Pony Gate, and Canyon trails. Check in each week to see what's blooming or fruiting and where. Conditions change weekly, offering a unique experience each visit. Report and Pictures brought to you by James Webb
Adobe Canyon: Gateway to Sugarloaf Ridge State Park | Adobe Canyon: Puerta de Entrada al Parque Estatal Sugarloaf Ridge | Sonoma Ecology Center
Visitors to Sugarloaf Ridge State Park enter via Adobe Canyon Road off Highway 12 in Kenwood. As they drive up the canyon to enjoy the numerous outdoor activities at the park, they pass through an area that has drawn outdoor enthusiasts and casual visitors for well over 100 years. Read more on the Ecology Blog.
A New Way to Support Sonoma Ecology Center: 10% of your Sports Basement Purchases Supports Our Work, Plus Get 10% Off | Sonoma Ecology Center
We are excited to announce that Sonoma Ecology Center is now a beneficiary of Sports Basement, with store locations in Sonoma County, the Bay Area, and Southern California. When you shop at Sports Basement and select Sonoma Ecology Center as the beneficiary, you will receive 10% off your purchase and Sonoma Ecology Center will receive 10% of the profits to fund our work.
Restoration Technician | Sonoma Ecology Center
SEC seeks a full-time Restoration Technician to help fulfill the organization’s Restoration Program initiatives. The Restoration Program is focused on repair, enhancement and stewardship of private and public lands throughout the North Bay. Our ecological restoration services include: ecologically informed vegetation management, trail maintenance, the management of woody material, fire resiliency work, biological site assessments, native plant seed collection and propagation, invasive plant mapping and management, streambank stabilization and erosion control, and a variety of other tasks. Currently, our projects are focused on post-fire restoration, forest fire resiliency, invasive plant removal, and planting native species.
Sugarloaf State Park Wildflower Update 5.27.2024 | Sonoma Ecology Center
Flowers are blooming at Sugarloaf! No Suber bloom but always something new. This wildflower report is brought to you by Jim Webb. The report is very specific to flowers blooming on Hillside, Brushy Peaks, Gray Pine, and Meadow Trails.
Team Sugarloaf Celebrates 12-Year Anniversary | El Equipo de Sugarloaf Celebra el 12º Aniversario | Sonoma Ecology Center
Since taking over operations of Sugarloaf Park in June 2012, Sonoma Ecology Center has developed and demonstrated a model for building a community-centered state park that welcomes all community members maintains a well-maintained and clean park, protects the environment, and builds additional knowledge of the park, all without any direct state funding. As California moves into another era of budget shortfalls, the state needs examples of how to keep its parks operating, welcoming, and maintained despite budget reductions. [Traducido al Español]
SEC Launches New Capstone Overnight Camping Trips for 5th & 6th Graders | Sonoma Ecology Center
This Spring, Sonoma Ecology Center is thrilled to have launched our new overnight camping opportunity for our 5th grade and 6th grade students at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. Our pilot overnight campout series this year reached over 350 students, with over 50 students per grade level participating.
Sonoma Ecology Center se une a organizaciones locales para ofrecer transportación gratuita a Sugarloaf Ridge State Park a través de la beca “Route to Parks” | SEC Partners with Local Organizations to Offer Free Transportation to Sugarloaf Ridge State Park through Routes to Parks Grant | Sonoma Ecology Center
Este año, estamos emocionados de anunciar que Sonoma Ecology Center es uno de los beneficiarios de la beca “Routes to Parks” de Parks California para el ciclo del 2024. Estamos usando esta beca para nuevamente unirnos con bibliotecas locales para ofrecer transportación gratuita a Sugarloaf Ridge State Park como parte de nuestro programa Senderos Naturales.
Sugarloaf State Park Wildflower Update 5.09.2024 | Sonoma Ecology Center
Flowers are blooming at Sugarloaf! No Suber bloom but always something new. This wildflower report is brought to you by Jim Webb. The report is very specific to flowers blooming on Vista Trail and Headwaters Trail, Red Mountain, Bald Mountain, and Gray Pine Trail.
Sugarloaf State Park Wildflower Update 5.13.2024 | Sonoma Ecology Center
Flowers are blooming at Sugarloaf! No Suber bloom but always something new. This wildflower report is brought to you by Jim Webb. The report is very specific to flowers blooming on Canyon Trail, Pony Gate Trail, and Creekside Nature Trail.
Sonoma Valley Collaborative Assistant Director | Sonoma Ecology Center
To give a flavor for this position, the Assistant Director will, among other things, facilitate delicate conversations between unlike SVC members to seek consensus positions that SVC can advocate for; write and supervise communications that keep the Sonoma Valley community engaged in what SVC is doing and can do; talk with youth, business leaders, health leaders, and environment leaders in ways that show them how their own needs and goals are advanced through the efforts of SVC; get help from topic experts to thread the needle finding positions that satisfy SVC’s members’ needs; speak at government public meetings to represent SVC’s platform; learn how to protect SVC members’ “lines in the sand” while still advancing the coalition’s larger interests.
New Accessible Ramp Installed at Sugarloaf’s Community Science Office | Sonoma Ecology Center
This Spring, we finished the installation of a new accessible ramp at the Community Science office at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, which our Senderos Naturales staff and volunteers use for their work. We were able to complete this ramp installation using a grant from the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF).
Seasonal Park Aide at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park | Sonoma Ecology Center
Join us at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park and be part of a close-knit team committed to preserving the beauty of the park and enriching the community. Here, your work is more than a job – it’s a contribution to a place loved by many, creating lasting memories for visitors and a sustainable future for the park.
Wildflower Report: Week of April 2 2024 | Sonoma Ecology Center
Lower Bald Trails The Lower Bald Mountain Trail is actually a complex of trails connecting the main parking lot and White Barn Parking lot at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park with the Bald Mountain Trail, a road/trail that runs to the summit of Bald Mountain. I walked the segment of the trail from the White Barn […]
Advancing Environmental Education with Free UC CalNat Course for Local Teachers | Sonoma Ecology Center
In our mission to bring high quality environmental education to all students in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma Ecology Center hosted a UC California Naturalist for Teachers (UC CalNat) course last Fall to support our Valley’s educators in their environmental education programs. Teachers are now sharing ways that they have been able to use the learnings from our course to improve their environmental instruction.