Volunteers Pick up the Slack at Our Parks, Trails

Severe budget cuts had a devastating impact on our creeks and rivers.  Cuts to the ranger program resulted in homeless encampments, vandals and thoughtless residents filling our creeks with batteries, refuse, shopping carts, tires and the like. Steve Holmes, a local businessman, created Friends of Los Gatos Creek (FOLGC) and has led volunteer efforts to clean the creek and the adjacent trail at several access points.