Written by Ayano Hayes, SPAWN’s Watershed Biologist The 2020 coho salmon smolt year in Marin County’s San Geronimo Creek is off to a big start! When coho salmon are born…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2020 Contact: Preston Brown, Director of Watershed Conservation, preston@seaturtles.org, 303-877-0880 SPAWN to Remove Central California’s Top-Priority Fish Barrier This Summer SAN GERONIMO, Calif. — The…
Annalisa Batanides Tuel, Policy & Advocacy Manager with Turtle Island Restoration Network, speaks at a Marin County Board of Supervisors Meeting on January 11, 2020. Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN)...
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For Immediate Release January 23, 2020 Contacts: Annalisa Tuel, atuel@seaturtles.org, 408-621-8113 Ayano Hayes, ahayes@seaturtles.org, 916-216-8355 Trump Administration Slashes Protections for Bay Area Streams WASHINGTON — On Jan. 23 the Trump…
By Bryce King, Habitat Restoration Intern The Salmon Protection And Watershed Network, or SPAWN, is conducting substrate classification, embeddedness, and scour chain studies to gauge the current redd habitat value…
For Immediate Release January 15, 2020 Contact Harry McGrath, (415) 254-7185, hmcgrath@seaturtles.org SPAWN to Offer California Naturalist Training This Winter OLEMA, Calif. — The Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN)…
For Immediate Release January 10, 2020 Contacts: Todd Steiner, tsteiner@seaturtles.org, 415-488-7652 Preston Brown, preston@seaturtles.org, 303-877-0880 Ayano Hayes, ahayes@seaturtles.org, 916-216-8355 California’s Coho Salmon Spawning Numbers Plummet Marin County Spawning Population Lowest…
Each winter, SPAWN offers the Bay Area community the chance to experience one of Marin County’s most magnificent natural phenomenon: the local population of endangered coho salmon returning from the…
Coho salmon are an anadromous species, meaning they migrate from the ocean to their freshwater natal streams to spawn, or build nests (called redds). The anadromous life history of salmon…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2, 2019 Press Contacts: Preston Brown, (303) 877-0880, preston@seaturtles.org Audrey Fusco, (415) 845-4791, audrey@seaturtles.org Todd Steiner, (415) 488-7652, tsteiner@seaturtles.org Slow Down to Glimpse Ecological Restoration on…