Welcome to the Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
Stream Walk Program
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This webpage allows users to interactively view Goleta Slough Stream Walk Program data that was collected from October 2004 to October 2005. During this period, a field survey was conducted by Channelkeeper staff and volunteers to identify, document, and map ecological impairments along San Jose and Maria Ygnacio Creeks in Goleta. These creeks were selected based on input from Santa Barbara County and the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project.
By following the links to the left, you can view project descriptions including data collection methods and the types of data collected. Data has been subdivided by impairment type. You may view maps of data by choosing any of the impairment types listed to the left. Look for symbols such as this: 
to click and view a photograph taken at the marked location.
Also available from Channelkeeper are the actual Geographic Information System (GIS) data used to make these maps, in ESRI shapefile format. All data are free to the public. It is Channelkeeper's hope that this data will be used for educational purposes and to facilitate watershed planning and restoration efforts that will improve the ecological function of the watershed. For information on how to obtain GIS data, contact Ben Pitterle at ben@sbck.org.