2025 FoVG & Community Update

April 1, 2025

Calendar:

April 5:  Monte Rio Community Volunteer Day 9:00 a.m. - Noon

April 9:  FoVG Board Meeting 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Zoom

April 10:  Patterson Point Restoration Committee  4:00 p.m. Zoom

April 11:  Deadline for survey for Monte Rio Redwoods Regional Park

April 17:  Final STRAW Planting in Patterson Poiint: 9:30 a.m. PPP

April 26:  Villa Grande Earth Day Community Clean-Up 9:30 a.m.                    VG General Store

April:   Monte Rio Fire District. Chipping of branches 

MRRPD Work Day - Saturday April 5, 2025

The Monte Rio Recreation and Parks District is hosting its first Community Volunteer Day! 


Event details:

Place: Monte Rio amphitheater (across the street from Bartlett's Market)

Date: Saturday April 5, 2025

Time: 9 am - noon

Note: Light rain will NOT cancel the event. Heavy rain or hazardous conditions will force us to reschedule. You will receive a second email if we have to reschedule.

Note: Some volunteers will be working in and near some poison oak. Wear Long Sleeves and long pants! 

Sign Up Here 

Signing up,will help us ensure we have adequate tools, tasks, snacks, and beverages for everyone.

FoVG Board of Directors Meeting:

Wednesday, April 9. 6:30- 8:00 pm.

To join the Zoom meeeting: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9443762185?pwd=OTdGN2FtdTVVRW5aUXVxOWxFcGk3QT09


Meeting ID: 944 376 2185

Passcode: friends

The 2024-2025 Restoration Season is ending.  To see Kaya's six page report on this past season's activities:  click here.

On April 17the, the final planting in the Preserve swale will happen. The STRAW  (Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed) will be finishing the planting that was begun by the students and staff of the Monte Rio Elementary School on March 25.  Unfortunately, rain canceled the second day of planting.  We hope to finish getting all the seedlings in the ground on April 17 between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.  We could use any help you can spare.

Chipping Service:  VGFD Plaza.  Mid-April

The Monte Rio Fire Department will be coming to the Firehouse Plaza (21950 Willow) when it's dry enough to chip branches (up to 4" in diameter). If you have branches to be chipped, just place them on the pile next to the big redwood tree in the VG Firehouse Plaza. 

Monte Rio Redwood Regional Park Survey: Deadline April 11

Sonoma County Regional Parks is inviting the public to help shape the future of Monte Rio Redwoods Regional Park and Open Space Preserve! This 515-acre park in western Sonoma County, acquired in 2020, will be offering trails through beautiful redwood and Douglas fir forests and along Dutch Bill Creek. The department is working on a master plan to guide future uses, including new trails, picnic areas, recreation opportunities, educational spaces, and natural resource protection.

The public survey, available in English and Spanish at SoCoParks.org/MRR-Plan, is open until April 11, 2025. Community feedback will play a key role in developing a draft master plan, which will then undergo environmental review and additional public input before being considered by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors in winter 2026.

Monte Rio Redwoods is the first regional park of its kind in West County, serving Monte Rio and nearby communities like Camp Meeker, Villa Grande, Tyrone, and Occidental. The park features diverse ecosystems, rare plant species, and habitats along Dutch Bill Creek that support steelhead trout and coho salmon.

This is your chance to contribute to the future of a treasured natural resource! Hard copies of the survey and documents are also available by contacting Park Planner Karen Davis-Brown at Karen.Davis-Brown@sonoma-county.org or 707-565-1359. Don't miss this opportunity to make your voice heard and help shape the future of this beautiful new park.    

Take the survey here

Earth Day:  Community Clean Up:  Saturday, April 26.  10 a.m. - Noon. 

We will celebrate Earth Day by cleaning Villa Grande's open spaces: the Town Square Park, the Patterson Point parking area on 4th and Russian River Ave., and the clean up the Firehouse Plaza. We'll gather at the VG General Store at 9:45 a.m. where coffee and donuts will be served. Refreshments will be serve inside the General Store starting at 11:30 a.m. Sign up here. (feel free to bring neighbors and friends)

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