In the spring of 2021 UCSD students in the Native California History Class of Professor Ross Frank created this beautiful guide for the Native Plant Garden at Barona Indian Charter School. We would like to thank Paige Love, Samantha Rome, Linnea Hilderbrand and Cera Reyes for their work in making Read more
Taking refuge from the coronavirus pandemic, wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn set out to record all the bees he could find in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England, filming them with one-of-a-kind lenses he forged on his kitchen table. Learn more at PBS.org About
This video features Rick Halsey, founder of the California Chaparral Institute, and is about the California Chaparral biome, a wonderful, yet totally misunderstood biome found across the state.
Kumeyaay story “Our Life Under the Oaks” with English Subtitles Featuring Norma, Jon y Emilia Meza and Lupe Cota Directed by Michael Wilken-Robertson
The short answer is “into Rose Creek.” If you want to understand how water flows from the human built environment into Rose Creek, Mission Bay and eventually into the Pacific Ocean, check out this cool video.
Normally, we feature great videos on wetlands from an environmental perspective. Today’s short video is from the Oro Loma wastewater treatment plant pilot project on using Green Infrastructure (aka natural solutions) to solve human created problems and challenges.
Learn about efforts to Reawakan native languages in California including those of the Kumeyaay tribes upon whose traditional lands Rose Creek flows. “Now there’s hardly a Chumash or Kumeyaay who don’t speak their language, at least to introduce themselves,” says Richard Bugbee (Luiseño), board member of the nonprofit Advocates Read more
A perspective from the European Union’s MaCoBioS project. Climate change is upon us, and the urgency to act against it has never been so high. The ever-increasing emission of carbon dioxide over the past century must be reversed and has become a global priority. The sea level is rising, and Read more
In years gone by, the City of San Diego dredged the area of Rose Creek downstream of Garnet Avenue and the area was an earthen bottom channel. Once that stopped, about 25 years ago, natural processes started to repopulate the area and create a salt marsh used by local and Read more
University of California, San Diego alumna and Kumeyaay Native Eva Trujillo (Class of 2020) has become the university’s repatriation coordinator. The university has had a complicated relationship with local tribes. However, a new chapter is beginning. UC San Diego alumna and Kumeyaay Native Eva Trujillo Read more