Alhambra Creek/ Strentzel Meadow

Working with Contra Costa County Public Works, the National Parks Service and the Friends of Alhambra Creek, the Trust developed a land management and native meadow restoration program. This project began as a flood control project to control neighborhood flooding from the watershed, a heavily grazed landscape with an incised creek that overflowed into the neighborhood. The Trust implemented a series of project to restore the creek to a more natural form and to restore a native landscape in the adjacent meadows. The work was complicated by the presence of the John Muir grave site but this proved important as an educational tool rather than a project impediment.