By: Audrey Fusco, SPAWN Nursery Manager and Restoration Ecologist The population of the Western monarch butterfly dropped to less than 2,000 individuals in 2020 and recovered to more than 247,000…
On the first Friday of each month Audrey Fusco, SPAWN Nursery Manager, leads the nursery volunteer group on a seed collection hike from 2 PM to 4 PM. Seed collection…

This was originally submitted for publication in Forest and River News, Spring 2022 edition. You can find Forest and River News here. The Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) focuses…

On Saturday, March 19th, more than 30 volunteers came out to help with revegetation of our newest project site at Roy’s Riffles. Groups came out to help from Salesforce and…

One of the factors contributing to the decline of the Western monarchs is a lack of milkweed; milkweed is the only host plant that monarchs can use for reproduction. Because…

The Salmon Protection and Watershed Network, or SPAWN, is Cascade Canyon School’s Ocean Guardian Grant partner, and we have had a great time working with them to help fulfill their…

In early December, students in the 4th/5th combo class and the 7th grade class at Cascade Canyon Elementary School (Fairfax) joined the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) at Samuel…

Summer is almost here, and the nursery is in full bloom! We’re enjoying watching the flowers open on our plants, from the most obvious blossoms on spring flowering perennials to…
SPAWN is offering a two-part habitat gardening workshop series this fall; we’ll focus on Oak woodlands, grassland, chaparral, and riparian plant communities.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our two-part pollinator gardening workshop series, January 14 and February 4, 2017. We learned all about insects and pollinator-plant interactions! Workshops were led…