For Immediate Release: January 3, 2023 Contacts: Todd Steiner, Executive Director, (415) 663-8590, tsteiner@seaturtles.org Scott Webb, Advocacy & Policy Director, (707) 921-8211, swebb@seaturtles.org Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act to…
With multiple species of marine wildlife becoming entangled in commercial Dungeness crab fisheries, species including humpback whales, blue whales, and leatherback sea turtles, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) was…
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…
Marin County, CA—The gentle rains of the last week have brought endangered coho salmon back to Lagunitas Creek in west Marin County. Wild coho salmon return to their natal streams…
For Immediate Release: November 10, 2022 Contact: Ayano Hayes, Watershed Biologist, (916) 216-8355, ahayes@tirn.net Todd Steiner, Executive Director, (415) 488-7652, tsteiner@tirn.net Photo Credit: Bud Vieira Naturalist-led Creek Tours Being Offered…
This past week, The Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN), joined CNN and their “Call to Earth Day” Initiative, along with WellKind, California high school students from Archie Williams High…
California’s Leatherback Conservation Day became law in 2012, thanks to the work of then Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) lead campaigner Teri Shore, who first proposed it and found state…
In a tentative ruling on September 16, 2022, CA Superior Court Judge Sweet ruled that the group that sued SPAWN and Marin County to prevent the restoration of San Geronimo…
Here is a short underwater video clip of a school of juvenile coho at our recent restoration site at San Geronimo (the former San Geronimo Golf Course)! Historically, this particular…
Watch some fascinating underwater footage that features three of the fish species found in San Geronimo Creek. This footage was taken along a property Turtle Island Restoration Network recently acquired…
