An article by Audrey Fusco, SPAWN Restoration Ecologist, was featured in Forest and River News, Spring 2023. Read the article “Add Butterflies to Your Garden: Restoring Habitat for Pollinators Benefits…
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Many of the SPAWN Nursery volunteers visited the Marin Art and Garden Center following the Friday nursery volunteer event on March 31st to view the special exhibit “Return of the…
Audrey Fusco, Nursery Manager & Restoration Ecologist, was part of a collaborative effort to produce the “Return of the Western Monarch”, showcasing the efforts to help the population of monarchs…
From March 17 through April 30, the “Return of the Western Monarch Butterfly” will be open to the public at the Marin Art and Garden Center. The exhibit combines science…
Monarchs breed and overwinter in Marin, and their population has come back in stronger numbers, due to habitat enhancement and re-establishment. Audrey Fusco, Nursery Manager & Restoration Ecologist, played a...
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Through our Tropical Milkweed Trade-Out Program, we are growing narrow-leaf milkweed with 4th graders at several elementary schools in Marin County. The Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN) supplies milkweed…
After rescuing over 50 monarch caterpillars from a local school that worked with SPAWN to grow milkweed, eight caterpillars (that we know of) made it to chrysalis and the final...
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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…
Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) recently expressed its support to help prevent monarch butterflies from extinction. Joining with over 80 different groups, we called on Congress to provide $100 million…