Programs

  • Program 1 [2020]

    Mission Blue Nursery Program San Bruno Mountain Watch operates the Mission Blue Nursery to grow the native flora of San Bruno Mountain. In 2020, San Bruno Mountain Watch continued hosting programs at the nursery for the public to participate in plant propagation and maintenance activities. Nursery volunteers contributed 646 hours of service at the nursery during this year. Group volunteer events were suspended in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic; in July, volunteer opportunities resumed in the form of individual activity shifts for one person or small household group at a time. The nursery supplied native plants to various restoration projects on San Bruno Mountain and other parks throughout the San Francisco Peninsula. These habitat restoration projects were carried out by multiple agencies, including San Bruno Mountain Watch, the San Mateo County Parks, and the City of South San Francisco. Plants were also provided to urban restoration and urban greening projects, such as the Sunset Boulevard Pilot Gardens carried out by the California Native Plant Societys Yerba Buena Chapter and Climate Action Now!, the Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit Districts Potrero Gateway Eco-Patch Test Garden project, the Crown Colony Homeowners Association native landscaping project, the Portola Neighborhood Associations Burrows Pocket Park project, and the Friends of Oak Woodlands restoration project at Golden Gate Park. In addition, plants were grown for the purpose of landscaping a kiosk exhibit about San Bruno Mountain at the Genesis North Tower in South San Francisco adjoining the mountain. The nursery was only able to host one public plant sale prior to the closures necessitated by the pandemic. In response to this, a digital ordering menu featuring the nurserys plant inventory, called the Mission Blue Menu, was created and hosted on the San Bruno Mountain Watch website, along with a system of individual plant sale pickup appointments. This allowed the public to continue to acquire plants from our nursery while maintaining social distancing protocols.The nursery also provided plants to schools such as a biology class from Westmoor High School for the purpose of providing students with plants to grow and observe from home during the era of remote, distance learning. The organization also initiated the Environmental Justice Fund at Mission Blue Nursery, soliciting donations for the purpose of providing native plants for free to organizations that cultivate environmental equity through community gardens; Kapwa Gardens was the first partner organization to receive plants as part of this initiative.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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  • Program 2 [2020]

    Education Program San Bruno Mountain Watch's education program connects the public with the cultural and natural history of San Bruno Mountain through field trips, presentations, digital resources, and service-learning opportunities. In response to the coronavirus pandemic and the limits it placed on in-person educational opportunities, San Bruno Mountain Watch launched the San Bruno Mountain Digital Learning Initiative. As part of this initiative, online curriculum and activities were developed for youth, with multiple videos and presentations exploring different themes. This included navigable online slideshows, videos, interactive online worksheets, and stories hosted on the organizations website.Furthermore, San Bruno Mountain Watch began developing a mobile application that will provide the public with self-guided interpretive walking tours of trails on San Bruno Mountain and its surroundings. Additionally, San Bruno Mountain Watch continued expanding and adding materials to the San Bruno Mountain Archives, a digital history project; three new collections were added to the archives. San Bruno Mountain Watch also served as a co-host of the San Bruno Mountain Conference in April of 2020, which transitioned from an in-person event into a virtual lecture series. The conference highlighted the ecology and history of San Bruno Mountain from a variety of speakers including ecologists, botanists, natural resource managers, and passionate students of local environmental history. The fifteen lectures were recorded and together amount to over 5.5 hours.In the fall of 2020, San Bruno Mountain Watch helped edit, publish and distribute over 200 copies of Earths Own Animal, a book by a founder of the organization, David Schooley, that included more than 250 pages of San Bruno Mountain art and poetry plus historical essays about the peoples movement to save San Bruno Mountain. San Bruno Mountain Watch also designed and developed a series of ten interpretive panels covering a range of topics about San Bruno Mountain that were installed in an outdoor kiosk at the Genesis North Tower in South San Francisco. One of the panels, focused on the mountains indigenous heritage, was written by the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone. Only a few guided hikes and field trips took place during the first two months of the year, as other planned outings had to be cancelled due to the pandemic.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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  • Program 3 [2020]

    Ecological Restoration Program San Bruno Mountain Watch leads ecological restoration efforts in collaboration with community volunteers, students, corporate groups, park agencies, and local cities. Volunteers contributed 1,839 hours to community-based ecological restoration efforts led by our organization in 2020. Group volunteer events had to be suspended in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, yet some individual volunteer efforts were able to continue throughout the year. San Bruno Mountain Watch continued grassland restoration efforts as part of the San Bruno Mountain Habitat Conservation Plan, leading planting events to improve habitat for the mountain's endangered mission blue and callippe silverspot butterflies. Invasive plant removal efforts continued in areas like the San Bruno Mountain Dunes, the site of the San Bruno Mountain Botanical Garden, and on the south slopes of the mountain through the efforts of the South San Francisco Weed Warriors.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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