We did it! The California Coastal Commission approved the DeAnza Natural Plan Amendment with staff recommendations. Great work everyone. This item will be on our September meeting agenda and we will provide more details.
Life Before Contact: An intimate look at the First Peoples of Southern California before contact contains interviews with local Kumeyaay leaders and cultural activities. This is the first segment of four available at PBS. Watch one segment or all of them.
Check out this great introduction to the problems to Stormwater Runoff by the Clean Water Education Partnership. Only three minutes long, it’s full of tips and tricks. Soak it up, slow it down, spread it out!
Keeping indigenous languages alive.
Rose Creek is a wetland Find both a fresh water creek wetland as well as a salt marsh wetland in Pacific Beach. Wetlands are everywhere and provide critical ecosystem services
Sitting in a park in the Mexican border city of Tecate, Norma Meza Calles can hear the sound of border wall construction crews pulverizing boulders on Tecate Peak, about a half mile away. To Meza, each pebble that crews chip away from those boulders is an insult to her and Read more
Homegrown National Park (HNP) is a movement to increase biodiversity, one small patch of land at a time. The Friends of Rose Creek is taking action at the Rose Creek Native Plant Garden. Doug Tallamay, co-founder of HNP, has a series of videos on why this movement matters. Learn how Read more
San Diego showcases our biodiversity Here’s a quick summary of the San Diego County results: Species: 2,701 Observations: 31,614 Observers: 1,303 Identifiers: 1,285 Our most observed species was California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) and 72% of our observations reached research grade! Want to see some of the observations? Visit iNaturalist. California Read more
The Jamul Casino recently won awards for its documentary film. Learn about the awards at Times of San Diego. Water Sweet – The Story of Jamul
Over 75 volunteers picked up over 2,000 pounds (1 ton) of trash in and along Rose Creek on Saturday, April 25th. A huge thank you to each and everyone of you and a special shout out to our great partners who made this event a huge success: I Love A Read more