Habitat Stewardship
Nature in the City relies on volunteers to help keep habitats healthy.
Nature in the City’s habitat stewardship program equips volunteers with the knowledge and resources they need to restore habitats in San Francisco.
Together, we conserve wildlife, ensuring survival for at-risk pollinators and providing access to nature for all.
Native wildlife and pollinator habitats are vital to maintaining San Francisco’s biodiversity and ecosystem health. Our volunteers have continued to adapt and energize stewardship programming through advocacy, planting, weeding, and watering—we’re so thankful for them!
In addition to caring for our four keystone projects, in 2021-2022, we partnered with Climate Action Now (CAN!) on habitat stewardship along Sunset Boulevard. Enjoy a stroll there and admire the Coast Live Oaks (Quercus agrifolia), Toyons (Heteromeles arbutifolia), and California Buckeyes (Aesculus californica) all providing life-supporting wildlife habitat, beauty, and clean air.
We’re grateful—with just one part-time stewardship staff member, your financial and volunteer support means we can continue providing San Francisco with healthy ecosystems to benefit wildlife and human health.
Opportunities
Calling all groups, citizen scientists, and volunteers! These activities give you exercise and fresh air while you enjoy nature.
Corporate & Group Volunteering
We welcome corporate and group volunteers who’d like to build teams and restore habitat; win-win! We regularly care for public habitats throughout San Francisco with volunteers. Our volunteer opportunities range from two to four hours long and require coordination, water, refreshments or lunch, tools, gloves, supplies, and volunteer management. Contact amber@natureinthecity.org, Nature in the City’s Executive Director, to design your custom event today.
Site Stewardship
Nature in the City teams up with individuals, groups, and families to provide the tools and knowledge you need to care for adopted habitats all over San Francisco. Email amelia@natureinthecity.org, with a brief message describing your interest, and we’ll get you connected.
Want to help steward a habitat restoration site on your own time? We have put together a video that gives you the basics on how to help. Pick one of these sites, and jump right in!
Monthly Workdays
See the Calendar listing for habitat restoration workdays.
Partner Community Volunteer Workdays:
Ongoing: First Mondays and third Saturdays, 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. hosted by Alemany Natives (restore grassland, chaparral, seep hedgerow, and wildflower meadow) at Alemany Farm
Habitat Monitoring
You can take part in a special Green Hairstreak Corridor monitoring project! Learn more on this fact sheet, then help submit entries into iNaturalist or via this spreadsheet, and finally, email us your results. Here are all the sites where you can make observations. More information on iNaturalist and other helpful resources are in this folder.