What a great turnout for Coastal Cleanup at Rose Creek on Saturday, September 17th! Thank you for everyone who came out to support our amazing partners We Clean Trails and I Love A Clean San Diego for World Cleanup Day! Together they removed 791.22 lbs of litter from Rose Creek! Read more…
Check out Channel 10 News as they cover the ReWild Coalition’s request for wetlands restoration sooner rather than later. As an FYI, the Friends of Rose Creek are part of the ReWild Coalition. To watch the news piece, click here.
The Friends of Rose Creek are partners in the efforts to ReWild Mission Bay. This project would restore a portion of the historic wetlands at the mouth of Rose Creek, where it enters Mission Bay. Check out this interview on KPBS regarding the plans moving ahead.
On July 31st, a reporter with the Beach and Bay Press joined the guided bird walk and wrote about it for the paper. A small group of bird watchers on a guided tour of Rose Creek on July 31 didn’t know they were in for a real treat: an osprey Read more…
Karin Zirk, our Executive Director, is going abroad for a year to study. This leaves the Native Plant Garden without a coordinator, no Site Captain for I Love A Clean San Diego’s Coastal Cleanup Day on September 17, 2022. or Creek to Bay Cleanup in April 2023. We are funding Read more…
The Native Plant Garden at Rose Creek in Pacific Beach was started in the mid-1990s by The Nature School. Since 2004 the Friends of Rose Creek have managed and expanded the garden. We are seeking a new “coordinator” to: water newly planted native plants as needed trim and remove non-native Read more…
We had a great turnout for our water quality testing training with Rachele from San Diego Coastkeeper. If you are interested in participating in an upcoming testing event, please email us and we’ll get you plugged in.
While it’s no secret that the Friends of Rose Creek supports the ReWild Mission Bay “Wildest” alternative to restore a mere portion of the historic wetlands at the mouth of Rose Creek, the City of San Diego is also proposing it’s own plan called De Anza Natural. The Friends Read more…
On December 4th at the early hour of 7:30 a.m., we convened at the lower Rose Creek Salt Marsh with our partners San Diego Audubon / ReWild Mission Bay, and special guest State of California Assemblymember Chris Ward (78th district), Randy Wilde from Mayor Todd Gloria’s office, Jordan Bean from Read more…
Great opportunity to: Learn the skill set of water sampling in urban creeks anywhere – at no charge. Learn about water-testing for pollutants in Rose Creek, the major urban stream that feeds fresh water into Mission Bay. Provide data to ReWild Mission Bay (ReWildMissionBay.org) /San Diego Audubon and Read more…