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Great job today at Peavine Trail, Emory Sustainable Business Group! We spent the day removing invasive chaff flower from the entrance and trail corridor, and had fun enjoying the creek views along the way 🍁🌞

BOO!!👻 If that didn’t scare ya, take a look at some spooky (and not so spooky) sights you can find around the South Fork of Peachtree Creek👀🎃🦇☠️ Continue…if you dare‼️⚠️😈 #halloween #creek #spookyseason #conservation #nature

The creek was a whole mood this morning. Beautiful and now more clean thanks to the volunteers with Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and KPMG who spent this morning removing trash from the creek at Zonolite Park. @crkeeper @kpmg

Water quality monitoring is essential in protecting our local waterways💧💞 Read more about how curiosity, community science, and a little creekside detective work helped identify a sewage leak impacting Burnt Fork Creek at the link in our bio! 🔍

🗓 Sunday, November 1, 2-4pm 📍1164 Zonolite Place NE, Atlanta 30306 🐢🦦Bring your favorite journal, or use one that we provide to illustrate your observations along the creek 🐢🦦

Thank you to the volunteers with Georgia Tech’s TEAM Buzz who shared their time and efforts Saturday morning to help clean up and restore Confluence Park. Hope it was a great warm-up before the Homecoming game. @georgiatech

The City of Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation wants to hear from you!🫵 They are updating their Activate ATL Strategic Plan to include parks, green spaces, pools, and recreation centers that better serve the needs of the community.💚 Take their quick survey by October 30th to let your voice be heard! Link in our bio🌳🏊‍♀️⚽️🛝🌇

🍁 Supplies will be provided! Registration is encouraged: southforkconservancy.org/events 📍Herbert Taylor Park- 1343 Pasadena Ave NE, Atlanta, 30306 🗓 Sunday, Oct 25 2-4pm

This Sunday we will be preparing for a fall planting and would love to see you there! Sunday 10/4 9-11am John's Homestead Park- 3071 Lawrenceville Hwy, Tucker 30084

THANK YOU to @intownschool for spending your volunteer day with us at Zonolite Park! We identified native crossvine and removed english ivy from trees. We removed stiltgrass and spread native Joe Pye seeds. We explored the creek and wrapped up the workday with a volleyball circle!

💛 Take us back to this magical night along the South Fork! To everyone who came out and supported our work - THANK YOU! Because of you, we are able to continue to improve the health of this critical watershed that winds from Tucker to Atlanta AND increase access to nature in our neighborhoods!

Who am I? Caught this majestic cutie perching on the trailhead sign at Confluence Park today. It might be a mockingbird, but unfortunately it didn’t sing for us.

Have you been curious about water quality? Maybe you've dreamed of starting a water monitoring program in your own neighborhood? Or maybe you just want to learn more about aquatic life? 🐚💧 We had a great day with @georgiaadoptastream and @dekalbnaturalists for the Macroinvertebrate and Biological Monitoring Workshop! 🐚💧 Did you know that Georgia Adopt-A-Stream offers free workshops and water monitoring certifications? It's a fun, hands-on way to get involved with watershed stewardship and citizen science. Check out adoptastream.georgia.gov to learn more!

Happy Fall Equinox! Thank you for gathering to explore the forest and watershed together! We identified trees, talked about signs that help us to read the forest, discovered beaver lodges and dams, and marked the turning of the season together 🧡🦫🌲

🧡 Let's celebrate fall equinox with a nature walk 🗓 Tuesday, September 22 at 6pm 📍 John's Homestead Park- 3071 Lawrenceville Hwy, Tucker 30084

The silent auction for Creek Rising is LIVE! 🎉🎉 Givebutter.com/c/CreekRising2026/auction Bid on items like a gorgeous handmade quilt, 4-night stay on St. Simon's island, Big Green Egg smoker, Bird's Georgia birding excursion, copper-top bird feeder, and more! You can buy-it-now or bid on your favorites. Shop for a great cause and help to protect the South Fork watershed.

Creek Rising is here! Don’t miss this annual evening of fun & fundraising along the South Fork. 🎟️ Ticket link in bio

A silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus) enjoying nectar from Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata). You can spot these in the restored wetland habitat at Friendship Forest Wildlife Sanctuary in Clarkston. 🪻🦋🪻 Pickerelweed plays a special role in supporting healthy watersheds. Along with providing habitat, their substantial root system acts a natural water filter and sediment stabilizer! 🪻🦋🪻

Check out all of the updates coming to Johns Homestead Park in Tucker! Thanks to Tommy Lupo for the tour.

Exploring the forest and the wonderfully restored lake and new amenities this morning at Johns Homestead Park in Tucker. Ended with the ribbon cutting that showed how beloved this greenspace is. We are so excited for the future of this beautiful park in the South Fork watershed. @tuckerparksandrec

MEET OUR INTERN: Martin Brown a @universityofga Masters of Landscape Architecture student who is helping us create an updated landscape management plan for the area on South Fork side of the Confluence Bridge 💚

Saw these two beauties on the trail that connects Zonolite and Herbert Taylor Parks last week. Have you seen deer near the creek?

Join us this Saturday at 9a to improve Confluence Park. Link in bio or go to southforkconservancy.org and click the announcement banner at the top of the page.

Big thanks to the @georgiatech SCoRE intern cohort who came out to Mason Mill Park to test our new Explorer digital interface and share their feedback to help us refine it before the official release. We’re excited about the potential to expand this to other parks along the South Fork watershed!

We try to stop trash before it gets in the creek. This is a big part of the work we do and sometimes it’s hard to talk about because it’s not fun or glamorous or always easy to measure the impact, but it’s important. Join us next time on a volunteer day, set up a monthly giving plan to cover supply costs, or bring a bag (AND GLOVES!) next time you walk the trails. Tag us in your stories, we want to see what wild things you find. 😬😒😭

Remove invasive plants and mulch the trails at Confluence Park. Let’s protect nature for people and wildlife. Visit south fork conservancy.org and click on events calendar in the menu for registration form and more information.

We’ve been keeping a secret! Ok, not really, but we are working on something really cool to illuminate and enhance your experience when you are on the trails and parks by the creek. A new digital engagement platform to be the interpretive guide in your pocket. We are starting at the South Fork trails at Mason Mill and Melton Parks as our demo. Keep an eye out for launch date and be one of our early testers! 🚀

What’s blooming along the South Fork: Armand Park edition! Enjoy a few moments of calming, flower-filled images of this creekside rain garden 🌼

Big thanks to the 40 @coxenterprises & @coxcommunications volunteers who came out to clear trash and remove invasive plants from the banks of the creek off Cheshire Bridge Road! In just 4 hours, they picked up: 🛞 20 tires + 🚮 2000 pounds of trash!

Calling all watershed stewards!!💙 South Fork Conservancy is compiling a State of the Watershed Report to discuss current and historical sources of pollution in our waterways that impact water quality, human health, and our natural environment. If you have any information on water quality in our watershed, we would love to hear from you! Especially if it includes any of the following: 💧locations of previous/current stream monitoring 💧stream monitoring data 💧locations of pollution, spills, discharges, etc. 💧photos that reflect water quality 💧graphs or maps that reflect water quality 💧any other type of info you may have!! No amount of information is too small! If you would like to share your information with us, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qIp6uOTdNNvENmqVFPCPh4-jRqVgKtWm8bPmJo4CW9Y/viewform?edit_requested=true Thank you for being a part of our research! Stay tuned for the final State of the Watershed Report!💙 #water #waterquality #atlanta #chattahoochee #southfork

April Splash Reports bring May flowers!! 🌸🌷🌼(…or however that saying goes) Catch up with SFC by reading our April newsletter at the link in our bio and sign up for our email list!📰☔️🌤️💖

Come along on our walk in Montreal Park with @georgianaturalists and @cityoftucker !! We learned all about this beloved forest and the many plants that call it home💚 Did you know mushrooms are the glue that hold forests together?🍄 They make a huge communication network with trees and other plants right within the forest floor! Kinda like a giant group chat📳 Must be hard being so popular when you’re such a fungi (I’ll see myself out) Make sure to upload your pictures for the City Nature Challenge (hosted locally by @fernbankmuseum ) on iNaturalist through April 27th! What a fine looking group of scientists you are👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🍀🌱🌼 #atlanta #citynaturechallenge #sparks #forest #nature

Join us on April 26th for a Forest Walk at Montreal Park in Tucker!🌳🦌🪱🌼🌲🌱We’ll be looking for plants, animals, and other organisms in our natural environment to upload to iNaturalist for the City Nature Challenge! 📸 A certified naturalist will also be joining us so we can learn more about the inner workings of the forest🔍 We can’t wait to explore with you!💚 Please register at the link in our bio or on our website. The City Nature Challenge is being held locally by @fernbankmuseum #citynaturechallenge #atlanta #forest #science #outside

City Nature Challenge starts TOMORROW‼️ If you’ve always wanted to be a scientist, now’s your chance👩‍🔬 All you have to do is: ✅download the iNaturalist app ✅join the South Fork of Peachtree Creek project ✅take a picture of any WILD plant, animal, or fungi ✅click save And that’s IT!! No multiple years of schooling required! Identifying the kinds of plants, animals, insects, and fungi in our community provides valuable research that tracks changes in species counts and monitors Atlanta’s biodiversity🌎💙 Stay tuned for more info on our Forest Floor Walk this Sunday at Montreal Park! Details coming tomorrow👀 We can’t wait to be scientists with you this weekend!!💖 The City Nature Challenge is being held locally by @fernbankmuseum #citynaturechallenge #earthweek #outside #science #atlanta

Today’s To Do List: ✅ go outside ✅ listen to the creek ✅ hug a tree ✅ appreciate our planet!! We love the Earth and we love connecting people to its beauty🥰 Hop over to @olmstedlinearpark to see this part of the creek in action! Happy Earth Day!🌎💚💙 #creek #earthday #earth #water #atlanta

During your lunch break on April 23rd, learn how to be a scientist and contribute to our understanding of the biodiversity of the South Fork of Peachtree Creek Watershed.👩‍🔬🌎📸 We will walk through making an observation using the iNaturalist app and adding it to the nearly 60,000 identifications of our local ecosystem already in the database.🌱🌸🐿️ This event is part of the Atlanta City Nature Challenge, which is hosted locally by Fernbank Museum.🤝 Sign up at the link in our bio or on our website. Can’t wait to see you there!!🥰 #citynaturechallenge #atlanta

Native plants are the only plants we need!! 🌱🌸💐🌳🌼🪻🍀🌻🌷🌲 We had so much fun with @georgianativeplantsociety on our spring walk!! We learned all about native plants, how to spot invasives (and how to get rid of them!!❌), the many, MANY‼️ animals that rely on native plants to survive, and how easy it is to plant more native plants in our backyards!!🌱 It was also amazing to walk and talk with some incredible community members!!🥰 Special thank you to Jeremiah Wood for being a great leader and teacher!!🤝 If you missed this walk, don’t worry! We have a forest floor walk coming up on April 26th from 3-4:30pm at Montreal Park in Tucker, GA!! Register now on our website or at the link in our bio. Stay tuned for more info!😉🩵 #creek #atlanta #outside #nativeplants #spring

Loving how clear the water was and how lush the trees were at the Confluence Trail yesterday. The birds were also tops, just listening to them chittering in the trees.

Do you enjoy nature, spring weather, learning about native plants, and winning prizes?? 🏆🌸🌳🦋Then come join us for the Spring Walk along the Confluence Trail on Sunday, April 19th from 2-3:30pm!!🌿 All ages are welcome and so are furry companions on leash! 🐾We will play nature bingo and everyone will have the chance to win a nature-related prize🙌 For more information, click the link in our bio or visit our website. Can’t wait to see you there!!🩵 #atlanta #getoutside #spring #southfork #nature

Last weekend, we had AMAZING time cleaning the South Fork for Sweep the Hooch! Thank you to @crkeeper @dekalbparksrec and Little Creek Horse Farm for helping coordinate this event. It was the perfect morning to clean our watershed and make new friends 💙 at Little Creek Horse Farm, we removed 1380lbs of trash and across all sites, 32 TONS of trash were removed 👏👏 see you all next year 😁

Just some spring cleaning🙂‍↕️ Thank you Lindbergh-Morosgo Neighborhood Association for all your hard work <3 Sign up for a SFC creek clean up near you!! #creek #spring #cleanup #fyp #atlanta

SFC interns in the wild😎 Big thank you to @parkpride for making this the best day ever!! We saw so many plants, met some amazing people, and heard inspiring talks that we will remember for years to come🥹 We love our parks and greenspaces!!💚 #atlanta #botanical #spring #park #fyp

HAPPY WORLD WATER DAY 💧We depend on our rivers for survival. In addition to providing habitats for plenty of animals, the South Fork directly feeds into the Chattahoochee River - metro Atlanta’s primary source of drinking water 🫀Rivers, creeks, and streams are known as Earth’s circulatory system. They carry essential sediments, nutrients, and materials where they flow and are integral to healthy ecosystems 🏙️River systems (especially those in urban areas) face major threats of pollution from human activity. It is estimated that globally, 80% of wastewater returns to the environment UNTREATED. Deforestation, industrial activity, runoff from roads, and trash are just a few examples of how other human activities can impact river health 💙This world water day, remember to appreciate your watershed and do your part to protect it! Every step counts #worldwaterday #southfork #watershed #conservation #atlanta

Time to dive into the new Splash Report!!📰💧 Click the link in our bio to read the full March Newsletter and make sure to sign up to our email list so you never miss the latest from SFC!!🩵🌷🍀🌼

How lucky are we to have these native plants blooming along the South Fork?!🤞🍀🥰 If you’re looking for some green today, look no farther than your own backyard.💚 No pinching here!!🤏 Both Green and Gold and Trillium are perennial plants which means they live for more than two years and bloom every spring.🥰 Virginia Bluebells are ephemerals because they only bloom for a short time until larger plants start to grow which block the sun.🌞 Hey, It’s not easy being green!!🌱So take the time to enjoy these colorful flowers while they’re still here!🌈 Happy St. Patrick’s Day from your fellow plant enthusiasts at South Fork Conservancy! 🍀

Just enjoying the view near and far at John’s Homestead Park in Tucker. What do you see growing right now?

Love Your Park 2026 was a success!!🤸‍♀️🩷🥰 We had so much fun mulching the garden, picking up trash, and meeting new friends at Confluence Park🫶 Thank you to everyone who helped out!!💖 #volunteer #atl #friendship #creek #nature

It’s invasive species week and we celebrated by getting our hands dirty at Briarcliff Bridge Park to remove some English Ivy❌ These plants attach themselves to trees, grow up their trunks, and settle into the canopy adding weight to the tree, making it more top-heavy and prone to snapping🪾⛓️‍💥 English Ivy is native to Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa but was brought to North America for use as a decorative plant. Now, it decorates our forests but kills native trees and plants in the process!😵💔 English Ivy spreads rapidly so it is essential that it gets removed ASAP, especially before it sprouts it’s seedy fruits.🌱 If you have English Ivy on your trees, cut the vines at the base of the trunk up to about chest height. This effectively starves the plant of nutrients, and the dead ivy will eventually fall off as the tree continues to grow🥳🎉 Invasive species are no joke! Help your trees fight English Ivy this week and every week‼️💪🥰 #invasivespecies #atl #plants #creek #tree

Come volunteer for Love Your Park on Saturday, 2/28 from 10a-12p at Confluence Park! We’ll be preparing the garden for spring so get ready to dig, plant, get dirty, and have a good time!🥰🪏👩‍🌾🪴 Bring family and friends and use the link in our bio to register!! 🌸🌷🌼🌱🍀🐛🐞🐜🌻🦋 #loveyourparks #garden #atl #creek #plants

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Spread the L-O-V-E by visiting the South Fork Peachtree Creek with your valentine!!🩷🥰💝💌 #valentinesday #outside #nature #atl #valentines

Get ready for Valentine’s Day with some SFC inspired cards🥰🩷🫶 Let us know your favorite (and if you have any more Valentine’s Day puns) in the comments! #valentinesday #valentines #love #nature #atl

It’s Superb Owl Sunday!!🦉🏈 Can’t wait to watch these Barn Owls play football today! Barn Owls are always intimidating prey along the South Fork with their eerie calls. They even swallow their prey whole and can hunt in complete darkness!🫣 We would not want to be the team playing against them😤🏟️ ….What’s that? Oh, it’s Super BOWL Sunday…wow this is embarrassing… 📸images from Creek Rising 2025 #superbowl #owl #southfork #creek #atl

Happy World Wetlands Day!🩵 So, what IS a wetland? Just wet land? Well…yes! Wetlands are areas where water covers the soil for all or most of the year. You know how when a sponge gets really saturated with water, and any additional water added just kind of sits on top? 🧽 That’s exactly what a wetland is! The soil absorbs the water and the area remains wet unless there’s a drought or lack of water source. 💧 Wetlands are often called “nature’s kidneys” because they filter water pollutants out of our environment. They also prevent flooding and erosion. Wetlands are usually found along rivers and streams and are an essential habitat for many plants and animals. Did you know that more than one third of threatened and endangered species in the U.S. ONLY live in wetlands?🤔 If you didn’t think wetlands were important before, I hope you do now! The South Fork Peachtree Creek provides a water source for multiple wetlands in our community like the ones found at Clyde Shepard Nature Preserve, Mason Mill Park, and Friendship Forest. These wetlands help clean the creek, prevent flooding, and are home to some of our most beloved plants and critters! 🐸🌱🦫🦉🌲🐢🐍 Celebrate wetlands today and every day by visiting one of these parks!! #conservation #wetland #creek #atl #worldwetlandsday

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