2024 Coastal Art & Poetry Contest Winners Ten winners and forty honorable mentions have been selected from this year’s entries. On the Coastal Commission’s website you’ll find beautiful, powerful, and playful art and poetry and personal statements from the artists. A Read more
Did you know that palms are just really big grasses? Did you know that palms are not native to coastal San Diego? Did you know that some palms are invasive, spread from your yard into our waterways and restrict water Read more
A story of cultural persistence that centers the past, present and future relationship Kumeyaay people have to the intertidal zone. We follow Dr. Stan Rodriguez, President of Kumeyaay Community College, as he teaches about traditional ecological knowledge and the cultural Read more
Check out the first half of this documentary on ReWilding wetlands in northern California on the homelands of the Yurok people. Watch the entire documentary to learn about ReWilding in the United Kingdom and Japan. Watch the documentary! Across the Read more
The 19th annual Love Your Wetlands Day featuring bird watching, science talks, and Kumeyaay tule boat building was held on Feb. 3 at Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve in Crown Point. The annual event was co-hosted by the San Diego Read more
Love Your Wetlands Day (LYWD) on Saturday, February 3rd was a beautiful and sunny San Diego winter day (in between storms). The Friends of Rose Creek were there talking to people about the importance of Rose Creek to Kendall-Frost and Read more
Thank you to our partners at the California Native Plant Society – San Diego Chapter for helping all of us learn how to garden with native plants. Gardening with native plants is a revolution in thought and action—a way of Read more
CEQA stands for the California Environmental Quality Act originally passed in 1970. CEQA requires government agencies to consider the environmental consequences of their actions before approving plans and policies or committing to a course of action on a project. It Read more
Council President Pro Tem Joe LaCava meet with Professor Dick Norris of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography during the January King Tides. Listen in on the conversation.
The film is now showing at the Barona Cultural Center & Museum in Lakeside. Come learn about the Creation Story of the Kumeyaay people with this 20 min. multi-sensory film experience. ADMISSION TO BARONA CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM IS Read more