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…
Adults and kids welcome (we recommend ages 9 and up) Walks are easy, and you may leave at any time No bathrooms or water in Rose Canyon Park or at the trailhead parking area Meet: Trailhead at intersection of Regents Road/Lahitte Court, University City. From intersection of Governor Dr./Regents Rd., Read more…
66 volunteers worked very hard along Rose Creek on April 21 pickup trash, getting down in the creek to pull out tires and muddy sleeping bags, and we enjoyed ice cream provided by Campland on the Bay. A few lucky winners took home books and t-shirt raffle prizes, and Friends Read more…
Join I Love A Clean San Diego and the Friends of Rose Creek as we cleanup Rose Creek from the Mike Gotch Bridge to Interstate 5. The cleanup runs from 9 a.m. until noon and we’ll meet at Mission Bay High School. Registration is now open. Click here to register Read more…
The Friends of Rose Creek led two bird watching walks this holiday season. On December 30, we were able to watch a Great Blue Heron try to swallow a dead fish that was just a tad too big. We saw many, many American Widgeon, a couple of Snowy Egrets, a Read more…