Resources

Plants nurseries
People often us ask where we get our plants from. Cotati Creek Critters have built up a nursery containing a wide selection of native plants, thanks to support from:

Sonoma State University’s Native Plant Propagation class: Karen Tillinghast and Jay Pedersen.
Sonoma County Jail Industries: contact Rick Stern, 525-8310
Circuit Rider Productions (Circuit Rider Native Plant Nursery)
Appleton Forestry
California Native Plant Society, Milo Baker Chapter: plant sales.

For gardening with natives in your own backyard, local native plant nurseries and other sources of native plants include:

California Flora Nursery, Santa Rosa.
Mostly Natives, Tomales .
California Native Plant Society, Milo Baker Chapter: plant sales.

For information about creating a wildlife backyard habitat garden see the National Wildlife Federation’s website.

Books/Reading

Conservation Psychology: Community Organizing for Watershed Restoration by Jenny Blaker
Changing Land Use in the Kotati, Rancho Cotate, Cotati area from Coast Miwok times to the present by Jenny Blaker.
Enhancing and Caring for the Laguna – a plan for managing and restoring the Laguna de Santa Rosa watershed, in 2 volumes.

Websites

Organizations

Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation
The Laguna Foundation works to improve the ecological health of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, Sonoma County’s richest wildlife area, and to inspire appreciation and enjoyment of this unique natural treasure. It works in the areas of restoration, education, and research.
Enhancing and Caring for the Laguna – a plan for managing and restoring the Laguna de Santa Rosa watershed.

Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, and WATER Institute (Water Advocacy, Training, Education and Research)
The WATER Institute runs courses on stormwater harvesting, rainwater catchment, and starting and sustaining watershed groups. Contact Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Road, Occidental, CA 95465. (707) 874-1557

California Native Plant Society, Milo Baker Chapter.

Acorn Soupe:
The mission of Acorn Soupe is to connects children and our community to nature through hands-on education. http://www.acornsoupe.org/

STRAW (Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed) is a project of the Bay Institute. The STRAW Project coordinates and sustains a network of teachers, students, restoration specialists, and other community members as they plan and implement watershed studies and restoration projects in Marin and Sonoma counties. www.bay.org

Society for Ecological Restoration:
The mission of the Society for Ecological Restoration is "to promote ecological restoration as a means of sustaining the diversity of life on Earth and reestablishing an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture."

National Wildlife Federation: To learn about wildlife habitat gardening, and how to certify your own backyard as wildlife habitat, contact the National Wildlife Federation, www.nwf.org

Other
Recycletown
500 Mecham Road, Petaluma, CA. Many thanks to Recycletown for providing many of our invaluable tools!

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