Endangered fish and their thoroughfares in the San Geronimo Creek Watershed will be the beneficiaries of some $300,000 in funds from the County of Marin and California Coastal Conservancy. The…
This summer promises to be an exciting and productive season for local residents interested in joining together with the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) to make improvements to their…
Today Greenpeace published a seafood report that ranks seafood sellers such as Whole Foods and Wild Oats for environmental soundness of their fish counter. It takes the concept of the…
Here at SPAWN’s office we have a beautiful scenery out back next to the creek. All of the staff love to go next to the creek during their lunch. The biggest…
SPAWN’s volunteers have been recently removing the invasive Scotch Broom on the property of Giacomini along San Geronimo Creek. This site is heavily covered with invasives and volunteers are now…
“For many years of advocacy and work to benefit the water quality of Marin’s watersheds and streams that benefit both fish habitat and the community at large.” Speech Given at MCL Annual…
Saturday’s volunteer group was remarkable! Things started off with Chris Pincetich, SPAWN’s new Watershed Biologist, recruiting volunteer, Angie, all the way from the East Bay! Smolt trap monitoring was the first…
County supervisors are set to adopt a two-year building moratorium along streams in the San Geronimo Valley while they draft new plans and policies to ensure protection of endangered coho…
FEWER endangered coho salmon are spawning in Marin this season than at any time in the past dozen years – and biologists don’t know why. What concerns fish watchers is that…
The spawning season for endangered coho salmon of Marin is the worst recorded in 12 years, causing high levels of concern by biologists who have been working to monitor and restore the endangered populations following a decade of stable or slightly increasing spawning numbers. Marin’s Lagunitas Watershed, located just 25 miles from downtown San Francisco, and one of the Bay Area’s most beloved salmon runs, boasts the largest remaining population of coho salmon left in Central California and upwards of 20% of the State’s total. Coho have already gone extinct in 90 percent of California streams that once supported this species.