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Upcoming Events

Volunteers Welcome for Projects

Twice-monthly Volunteer Broom Bashes

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Help Protect Habitat in the Fort Ord National Monument and adjacent areas. 

Join Citizens for Sustainable Marina in sweeping out French Broom, one of the most widespread and invasive wildland pest plants in California.

Sweep Out Invasive French Broom!​  

Click for details and dates

More Ongoing C4SM Projects

1) Every Saturday, rain or shine, 9 am-1 pm. Oak Woodland Community Garden:  Plant natives, manage and harvest food from raised community garden beds, spread chips, water and remove pesky caterpillars from this oak woodland restoration project. Next to Marina Library playground (190 Seaside Cir., Marina, CA).  For more info contact Bruce at 831-277-7690 or  bdelgado62@gmail.com

2) Every Second Sunday of the month, rain or shine, 10 am-12:30 pm.

Volunteer community cleanup of 14.4 miles of recreation trails, RR, roads and fence lines on county lands north of Marina. 10am meet at southern junction of Lapis Rd. and Del Monte Blvd. (DMB) 1/2 mile north of Beach Rd. roundabout. Look for C4SM banner and sign-in table. 

Pizza served at 12 pm.

For more info contact Steve Lee at 831-238-1988 or  steve@sl615.com

All supplies provided by Citizens For Sustainable Marina.

3) Every Wednesday, 5:30 pm-7 pm.  As part of the upcoming Marina Hilltop Park project, volunteers help restore a rare California ecosystem to this coastal dune habitat.   

Volunteers meet on Wednesdays, 5:30 pm to 7 pm at Hilltop Park, 4th Avenue at 9th Street in Marina. 

For more info contact Steve Lee at 831-239-1988 or steve@sl615.com

Read more about the Marina Hilltop Park habitat restoration project in the Monterey Herald’s November 5, 2022 article HERE.

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Past Events

MLK Sculpture Garden Unveiling & Dedication

Sunday, September 9, 2023
11 am – 1 pm
Marina Library, 190 Seaside Circle, Marina, CA
RSVP and more details HERE.

MLK Marina Sculpure 9-9-23
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Since 2007 Marina has held large earth day events at Locke Paddon Park (190 Seaside Circle, Marina CA).  Marina’s Earth Day 2023 is April 15.  Please join us to celebrate our natural earth in an all-age friendly setting.

Adopt-A Road Cleanup

Thank you to the 6 volunteers who showed up to our community cleanup event Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:30am at Marsan Ct/Salinas Ave Marina CA next to Reservation Rd. An area of coast live oak woodland and Maritime Chaparral. Pizza was enjoyed at 1pm. Thanks to Pat Grant for delivering the pizza.

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Thank you to today’s (Sun. Oct 9, 2022) experienced group of volunteers 
(R-L Steve, Paul, Karen, Troy, Jim, and Marina) for their community cleanup along Del Monte Blvd and Lapis Rd. Next scheduled cleanups are Sundays Nov 13 and Dec 11. 

Please join us and we’ll clean up even more areas!

Thank you Pat for the pizza and Randy for truck services and taking the above photo.
Photo Credit:
Sunset over the Fort Ord National Monument.  
Photo credit: Jesse Pluim, photographer for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
See more of his photography on the BLM Flickr account at