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…
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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…
Some of the recent work SPAWN has been involved with was highlighted in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ News and Information Hub. The work done at the former San…
In a recent update to their annual smolt report, the National Park Service (NPS) provided encouraging news for salmon lovers. From mid-March through late May, they are at Olema and…
In a recent post by the National Park Service (NPS), good news from Marin County was shared involving juvenile coho. For the second consecutive summer, they found juvenile coho salmon…
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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Summer interns, George Lyons and Andrew Notter, and residential intern, Max Keetch, have been working hard as we enter these summer months. They have had their hand in many responsibilities, including caring…
For Immediate Release: June 30, 2022 Contact: Preston Brown, (303) 877-0880, preston@tirn.net Olema, Calif. (June 30, 2022) – Following the second phase of creek restoration at the former San Geronimo…
Since mid-March 2022, SPAWN has been monitoring a smolt trap on San Geronimo Creek (SGC) to gauge the endangered coho salmon population within the Lagunitas Watershed. These young coho salmon…
Over the last several weeks, the floodplains and graded slopes that were shaped and sculpted just last fall are now alive with thick native grasses, flowers, and understory shrubs. Trees…