Earth Team Watershed Steward

Today we met a watershed steward! Her name is Chiara (personally I like that name:). She works for an organization called Earth Team as an after school teacher in Richmond, CA. She meets on Mondays and Wednesdays and teaches students about ecosystems and how animals live in their habitats. If you didn't know, because I didn't know, what watershed stewardship is, see the definition below. I interviewed Chiara and she told me many things about keeping our environment clean. 

For example, if a six-pack ring gets thrown out most people think that it will just get cleaned up but no, it doesn’t! It goes straight to our bay. That garbage affects marine life in a negative way. It all piles up and starts killing marine life and pollutes mother nature. Sadly, without mother nature most, if not all, living organisms will die and that includes us! So it is very important that we don't litter because it has long lasting effects on earth.

Definitions:

- A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place

- Watershed stewardship is a partnership between an environmental association and the community that helps conserve local watersheds. The Earth Team program in Richmond teaches students to enhance the health of local water-sheds.

For more information:

Earth Team's website: http://www.earthteam.net

Bay Area watershed finder: http://museumca.org/creeks/wb-resc.html

Check out this diagram of how watersheds work!

This is a map of all the Bay Area watersheds!