Community Service, Service Learning, and Community Events
Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon

Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon, located in Fremont  (1999 Walnut Ave, behind the Fremont BART station), is open for community service and service learning on the days listed below.  You do not need to sign up for the event, just drop in.    Click here for more information on Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon.

Volunteer Dates
Saturdays
9:30AM-12:30PM

Volunteers are recommended to wear garden work clothes due to field work!

Rain or shine! Except storm conditions

Community workdays are open to all high school students, Eagle and Girl Scouts, Senior Citizen groups, other community groups and individuals.   

Please check our website for more information on volunteering: http://msnucleus.org/volunteer_schedule.htm or call (510) 790-6284 or email: msn@msnucleus.org

Service learning hours can be earned by designing and carrying out individual or group science projects.  Some examples of projects are:

• Habitat restoration for amphibians and reptiles
• Water sampling from the ponds and/or lagoon to monitor water quality
• The need for a wildlife corridor from south Tule ponds to north Tule ponds (under Walnut Avenue)
• Stream ecology (which may include monitoring aquatic organisms such as fish and invertebrates)
• Bird studies and bird nest box monitoring
• Butterfly monitoring
• Plants and animal interactions
• Environmental Politics
• Animals of Fremont
• San Francisco Estuary and the importance of wetlands.

Community service hours can be earned by working on the following projects:  

• The butterfly meadow
• Creating and maintaining amphibian corridor(s)
• Native plant propagation (collecting and/or sewing seeds)
• Native plant installation (planting trees, shrubs or wildflowers)
• Transplanting nursery plants from the greenhouse
• Non-native plant removal
• Trash removal from ponds and trails
• Spreading mulch and chips around plants and on trails
• Tree and trail maintenance (watering and pruning
• Docents for Open Houses