February is full of ways to engage with your mountain!

HIKE WITH US

Wednesday, February 14, 3-6 pm: Galentine’s Day Hike. For gals! Hike through Muir Woods on a five-mile, moderately strenuous hike on a wintery February morning. This hike is designed especially for women to enjoy the outdoors and each other’s company. REGISTER >>

Saturday, February 17, 10 am-1:30 pm: Mt. Tam West Peak Hike. Join filmmaker Gary Yost and Marin Municipal Water District ranger Matt Cerkel on Mt. Tam for a special talk about the true peak of our beloved mountain. REGISTER >>

LEARN WITH US

Thursday, February 15, 7-8:30 pm: Naturalist’s Corner: Mt. Tam’s Bees. Learn all about these all-important pollinators in our region, and new work to understand how they are doing across the mountain. MORE INFO >>

Tuesday, February 27, 6-7:30 pm: Fire and the Lands We Call Home. Join Dr. Sasha Berleman, who leads Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Ecology Program, to learn about fire’s long-standing and critical role in our ecosystems, and the ways our plant communities have come to depend on fire as an ecosystem process. MORE INFO >>

Thursday, March 22, 7-8:30 pm: Naturalist's Corner with our own Marin County Parks Naturalist. Spend a fun evening with Marin County Parks Naturalist David Herlocker to hear about local natural history! MORE INFO >>

VOLUNTEER WITH US

Thursday, February 8, 1-4 pm: Wildlife Picture Index Workshop. Help catalog wildlife photos for the Marin Wildlife Picture Index Project, which uses motion-activated cameras to study wildlife on Mt. Tam. REGISTER >>

Saturday, February 10, 9 am-Noon: Community Science: Pollinator Workshop. Help prepare samples and contribute to a first-ever inventory of Mt. Tam's bees! MORE INFO >>

Saturday, February 10, 9 am-12:30 pm: Coast View Trail Grassland Restoration. Did you know that some of our native (and rare) grasslands on Mt. Tam are shrinking? Join us to remove shrubs to keep the grasslands open! REGISTER >>

Thursday, February 15, 1-4 pm: Wildlife Picture Index Workshop. Help catalog wildlife photos for the Marin Wildlife Picture Index Project, which uses motion-activated cameras to study wildlife on Mt. Tam. REGISTER >>

Saturday, February 17, 9am-1pm: Trail Stewardship @ Ring Mountain. Help Marin County Parks and One Tam Trail Stewardship Team repair part of the Phyllis Ellman Trail. REGISTER >>

Saturday, February 17, 10am-1pm: Habitat Restoration at Easkoot Creek. Help remove invasive Cape Ivy to allow native plants and animals to thrive. REGISTER >>

Saturday, February 24, 9 am-Noon: Habitat Restoration at Creekside Marsh. Come join this community-based effort to install a diversity of native plants and improve animal habitat at a site once dominated by weeds. REGISTER >>

Saturday, March 3, 9 am-noon: Volunteer Workday at Horse Hill. Help remove broom and restore California native grassland at Horse Hill. MORE INFO >>

THANK YOU TO OUR HANDS ON TAM VOLUNTEERS!

On February 3, over 100 Mt. Tam lovers came out to help restore habitat and other important maintenance tasks for our annual mountain-wide Hands on Tam Winter Workday.

Your help is much appreciated! Winter is an especially important time to come out and volunteer, since the rainy season is the best time to plant native species in our watersheds and remove invasive species. There will be many more opportunities to come out and help with this work on the mountain - see left for upcoming workdays this month. Hope to see you out there soon!

Photos by Paul Myers