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
Mission Bay High School in Pacific Beach is adjacent to the Rose Creek Salt Marsh. Voice of San Diego recently wrote a story featuring the high school as well as biology teacher Echo Jacoway. Ms Jacoway takes her students out to Rose Creek to perform water quality testing and salt Read more
Documentary film on Famosa Slough This short documentary on Famosa Slough tells it all: An ancient bay, a town dump, a thriving habitat: Famosa Slough is a small, yet vital piece of San Diego’s wetland ecosystem. Rising with the Tides explores the slough, the community that maintains it, and the Read more
Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink Rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns affect birds’ ability to find food and reproduce, which over time impacts local populations, and ultimately continent-wide populations, too. Some species may even go extinct in your state if they cannot find the conditions they Read more
Salt marshes are unique ecosystems where land meets sea, providing essential services like storm buffering and carbon storage. Most research has focused on how tides and rising sea levels affect these wetlands, but recent studies are shedding light on another important factor: freshwater inputs from rain and groundwater. A Read more
Entry Deadline: January 29, 2026, 5:00pm Details @ Coastal Art & Poetry Contest in English o Cómo participar, en Español Ready to participate? Here’s what to do: Read the Contest Guidelines Create your art or poetry Learn How to Enter the contest Submit your work online by January 29, 2026 at Read more
This amazing e-book is based on observations of the Tijuana Estuary and other local systems by Dr. Joy B. Zedler and is available from our friends at the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, which is one of 30 Reserves in the United States. They preserve, protect, and manage the Read more
What is CEQA? The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is an environmental and public health bill of rights for all Californians. CEQA is designed to ensure that people in every California community understand how land use decisions will impact their community’s future. The law requires that government agencies mitigate projects’ Read more
The Friends of Rose Creek and many of our partners are under attack from the most recent presidential memorandum, signed on September 25th, entitled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” Threats include loss of non-profit status, criminal investigation, and prosecution of what most people would call rights exercised under Read more