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This video provides an introduction into how salt marshes came to exist with a focus on Delaware Bay. But the lessons are applicable to the Rose Creek and Kendall-Frost salt marsh.  

The Environmental Center of San Diego (ECO San Diego) envisions a community working together to protect and enhance San Diego’s natural environment through education, advocacy and direct action, and to ensure access to the coast where feasible.   We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We’re Doing Something Read more…

THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATION We are pleased to announce the availability of tickets for the Sixth Annual San Diego Environmental Leadership Summit. After two years of virtual events, we are going live in 2022! The Summit will be an all-day conference for 125 leaders of environmental organizations in the San Diego Region on Saturday, September Read more…

Click here to download the toolkit in PDF format: San Diego Canyonlands Toolkit Education Toolkit

Check out this great episode of NAT / URE Revisited: the podcast with former San Diegan, Richard Louv the author of Last Child in the Woods. In this influential work about the staggering divide between children and the outdoors, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature Read more…

San Diego Audubon Society (SDAS) seeks to shape a culture in San Diego where nature is a common interest of all – where people learn to appreciate, understand, and actively protect the natural world. As we inspire others to join us in strengthening this culture of conservation, our region’s irreplaceable Read more…

Way to go San Diego!  As a county we made over 21,000 observations, of over 2,600 species, with 984 people! A huge thanks to the ~ 20 folks who came out for our event at Rose Creek on April 30th!  Excellent work.  To explore the species for yourself, visit the Read more…

For the Coastal Commission’s 2022 Climate Video Challenge, middle and high school students were asked: “What is your vision for a thriving future?” Having received many powerful and creative submissions, the following videos were selected. Please click on the images below to view the videos, and be inspired by California’s Read more…

Did you know that the non-profit that puts on the annual Earth Fair in Balboa Park is in the Rose Creek Watershed?  San Diego EarthWorks have been an integral part of the work being done by the Friends of Rose Creek since 2004 and before. San Diego EarthWorks got its Read more…

We Clean Trails is a group started by Miss Earth USA 2021, Marissa Page Butler, to clean up trails in San Diego County. We Clean Trails comes out to Rose Creek regularly and tackle some of the worst trash issues they see anywhere in the county. Marissa wrote a children’s Read more…