SHORELINE STEWARDSHIP PROJECT
 A partnership with the Lake County Watershed Protection District

Tule, Chi--Hitch and other aquatic flora and fauna of Clear Lake are vital to a healthy ecosystem. There are things we can do to be good stewards of the lake and adjacent properties and public shorelines! 

Come visit us at a community festival to learn more and weave from tule or create a drawing  to submit to our LOVE THE LAKE  postcard project.  Ten postcards will be selected to be printed and distributed to business, organizations, and hotels around the lake!
(see a few sample drawings below.)

Corine Pearce engages community members at Big Valley Rancheria's annual Tule Boat Festival. 

The MAC will be at the and so will our friend Pomo basket weaver ​​Corine Pearce!

Weave a Chi-Hitch fish, a bird, tiny boat, or basket with us!
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​"Native peoples across the land we now call California used tule to make houses, clothing, mats, baskets, and tools. Tule can be used to make a variety of baskets, from incredibly finely woven water bottles to rougher, open weave sifting baskets....."

Click here to learn more about traditional practices of weaving baskets, dolls, boats, decoys and houses out of tule

Meet Way-La Elvina Mata-Ku Brown. She belongs to one of the oldest Tribes in Lake County, known as Elem Modun—the Water People—skilled weavers and regalia makers from the Eastern shores of Clear Lake. Her ancestors have been here for over 15,000 years. Learn more about the East Lake Tribe here.

Way-La is  MAC's contributing teaching artist and cultural educator for the Shoreline Stewardship project,

For information about the Clear Lake Chi-Hitch visit  the Big Valley Rancheria Environmental Protection Department  website.

Community engagement in artmaking and shoreline education at Lower Lake Daze, 2025

​Click here for the Shorelines Stewardship Project main page