San Geronimo Valley Elementary School has found a way to store water for its garden, help fish in a nearby creek and teach kids the value of sustainability all in…
A new kind of “creek friendly” project designed to protect local salmon populations will be unveiled this week at the Lagunitas School in Marin County, CA, with a ribbon-cutting attended by students and staff of the school, volunteers and the Marin-based non-profit, the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network.
Children took turns with nets Tuesday scooping fish from little pools amid the recently dried gravel in the bed of Larsen Creek. Their mission was to save endangered coho salmon…
I would like to thank the Marin Municipal Water District for sending a letter to residents in the Lagunitas Creek watershed asking them not to pump water from the creeks…
Thousands Of Home And Garden Stores To Carry. Home and garden stores up and down the West Coast will warn consumers of the dangers to salmon posed by seven common pesticides. Last week, “Salmon Hazard” signs were distributed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of a legal settlement with consumer and salmon advocates.
Local environmentalists are conducting exit interviews of sorts with the fish to get a sense of health of threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead.
The first big rains of winter have attracted a roiling menagerie to the creeks and tributaries in Marin County’s lush San Geronimo Valley, where spawning coho salmon are living proof…
With winter rains arriving, the region’s rivers and streams are swelling. In Marin, the increased flow in streams like Lagunitas Creek allows one of the world’s most magnificent natural cycles…
“It looks like a fairy-tale house,” a local contractor said, leaning out the window of his pickup truck for a better look at the building that will soon house the…
A section of Woodacre Creek that once ran underneath a tennis court has been restored, allowing endangered coho salmon a better chance of survival. Community members and public officials gathered…