Rose Creek

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. ~~ Wendell Berry Elections are approaching fast, November 6 at a polling place near you.  Take Read more…

A huge shout out to the 188 volunteers who showed up for Coastal Cleanup Day at Rose Creek.   Volunteers removed couches, Arundo Donax (giant reeds), lo a Lime bike fished out of the creek and a tiger!  Enjoy these photos of the action and the trash!  Click on photos to Read more…

Join the Friends of Rose Creek and I Love A Clean San Diego as we pickup trash along, in, and around Rose Creek in Pacific Beach on Saturday, September 15th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Find us at the east parking lot of Mission Bay High School (2475 Grand Read more…

Thanks to the Pacific Beach and Clairemont Planning Groups, the comment period on the Balboa Avenue Station Area Specific Plan has been extended to Tuesday, June 12.  If you didn’t comment already, please do so now. Here are some suggested comments if you are looking for ideas and don’t want Read more…

In April, the Friends of Rose Creek participated in City Nature Challenge 2018: San Diego. San Diego came in third in number of species and  and number of observations and second in number of people participating.  Great job everyone! Check out this great map of observations made by one volunteer Read more…

See things at the creek you don’t like? Put the Get it Done! App on your phone and use it. Let’s hold the City’s feet to the fire. Besides reporting problems with trash, illegal activity, and impassible bike paths, the app creates statistics. Let’s show the City how many problems Read more…

The results are in. San Diego County came in first place for the total increase in the number of volunteers from last year. The city that added the most new iNaturalist participants to their region through the City Nature Challenge: San Diego, California with 733 new observers added during the Read more…

A huge thanks to those who came out to Rose Creek and helped document the amazing diversity of life in this urban creek. In San Diego county, over 1,100 Citizen Scientists made over 30,000 observations and documented over 2,700 species. To see San Diegan’s obeservations, click here. Looks like San Read more…