SPAWN Volunteers helped us plant hundreds of plants at the Roy’s Riffles project site in advance of a coming rain storm on February 4th. We so appreciate their help!! At…
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At a recent volunteer event, the SPAWN nursery team was helped out once again by some amazing volunteers! At this late January event, here are some wonderful pictures of the…
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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At a recent volunteer event, the SPAWN nursery team was helped out by some amazing volunteers! Here are some wonderful pictures of the team in action, with SPAWN Nursery volunteers…
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…
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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SPAWN holds volunteer events throughout the year, and here are images from a recent outing! Take a look at a quick gallery from our volunteer days! Thank you to all…
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…