Thank you Community Scientists A huge shout out to everyone who joined us at our event or who went out on their own to document species along Rose Creek. We will announce our 2026 event as it get closer to September. In the meantime, get out and document species where Read more
Watch this segment with the Friends of Rose Creek Executive Director, Dr. Karin Zirk, and San Diego Bird Alliance Conservation Advocacy Coordinator, Savannah Stallings on KPBS New Year’s Eve, Evening Edition talking about King Tides, wetlands and how they support wildlife and the human built environment.
A huge thank you to the 40 volunteers who pulled 1,250 pounds of trash out of Rose Creek for Coastal Cleanup Day 2025. A shout out to our event partners We Clean Trails and I Love A Clean San Diego. It was a wonderful collaboration. From a Winnie the Pooh Read more
In 2016, the San Francisco Estuary Institute prepared a historical ecology of lower Rose Creek’s salt marshes, mudflats and relationship to what we now call Mission Bay. Find the report on the ReWild Mission Bay website. Explore images showing what once was and other exciting information in the report.
CEQA Gutted! For those who do not know, for 50 years, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), required most development projects to complete an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to identify impacts to our communities and the natural world around us. It also required community outreach so that your voice is Read more
ReWilding Mission Bay The Friends of Rose Creek are proud members of the ReWild Mission Bay Coalition as we continue to advocate for advancing wetland restoration in the northeast corner of Mission Bay, focusing now on funding sources and getting the city to act on De Anza Natural and Fiesta Read more
Creek to Bay Cleanup Volunteers Get the Trash Out Over 120 volunteers joined the Friends of Rose Creek, We Clean Trails, the Mission Bay High School Eco Club and I Love A Clean San Diego on Saturday morning, April 26 as part of I Love A Clean San Diego’s County Read more
On Wednesday, December 4th, the Friends of Rose Creek and their friends gathered with assemblymembers Tasha Boerner and Council President Joe LaCava at the Kendall Frost Marsh Community Learning Center in Pacific Beach to celebrate twenty years of habitat restoration, trash pickups, advocacy, and collaboration with out groups in our Read more
Rose Creek thanks everyone who participated in Coastal Cleanup Day A huge thank you to the almost 80 volunteers who came out and picked up 1,350 pounds of trash, electronic waste, household hazardous waste, and invasive plants along Rose Creek and the Rose Creek Salt Marsh and Estuary. A huge Read more
Watch this video on a brief history of the Campo Kumeyaay and the history of the Kumeyaay people post-contact.