Save Rose Creek

Native Plant Weed & Water Saturday, June 27 @ 10 AM

2009-06-19T20:44:00.000-07:00

Normally a small group of people handle watering/weeding the 4th weekend of the month, but due to vacation schedules, we're down to a skelton crew this weekend.

Saturday, June 27 10 Am until Noon!

If you've been wanting to help out, we can really use your help this weekend.
Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. Park on Fogg Street just South of Garnet.

Easy one to two hours project - great for children of all ages. However, due to liability concerns, all minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the event.

Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves.

For more information, contact Billy at 619-785-1333 or via email.

Native Plant Weed & Water Saturday, July 11 @ 10 AM

2009-06-19T20:41:00.000-07:00

The Nature School - Native Plant Garden Maintenance *

Join us for Native Plant Gardening and Tree Watering on Saturday July 11 from 10 AM until noon.

Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. Park on Fogg Street just South of Garnet.

Join the Friends of Rose Creek on the Second Saturday of every month from 10 AM until Noon while we work on The Nature School’s native plant interpretive garden behind Rose Creek Cottage. Enjoy weeding, watering and planting native species and get involved with your creek and your community. We'll have snacks and beverages.

Easy one to two hours project - great for children of all ages. However, due to liability concerns, all minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the event.

Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves. More information Karin Zirk 858-405-7503 or kzirk@earthlink.net

* Part of the Rose Creek Wetlands & Salt Marsh Restoration and Nature Education Preserve project by The Nature Institute. New habitat restoration supported by The Nature Institute and the City of San Diego Environmental Services Dept.

Monthly Meeting July 8 @ 6 PM

2009-06-19T20:40:00.000-07:00

Native Plant Weed & Water Saturday, June 13 @ 10 AM

2009-06-02T19:45:00.000-07:00

The Nature School - Native Plant Garden Maintenance *

Join us for Native Plant Gardening and Tree Watering on Saturday June 13 from 10 AM until noon.

Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. Park on Fogg Street just South of Garnet.

Join the Friends of Rose Creek on the Second Saturday of every month from 10 AM until Noon while we work on The Nature School’s native plant interpretive garden behind Rose Creek Cottage. Enjoy weeding, watering and planting native species and get involved with your creek and your community. We'll have snacks and beverages.

Easy one to two hours project - great for children of all ages. However, due to liability concerns, all minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the event.

Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves. More information Karin Zirk 858-405-7503 or kzirk@earthlink.net

* Part of the Rose Creek Wetlands & Salt Marsh Restoration and Nature Education Preserve project by The Nature Institute. New habitat restoration supported by The Nature Institute and the City of San Diego Environmental Services Dept.

Monthly Meeting June 10 @ 6 PM

2009-06-02T19:40:00.000-07:00

Monthly Meeting Wednesday June 10 @ 6 PM
Inviting all residents, business owners, recreational users and others who have an interest in Rose Creek.

~ We meet the Second Wednesday of every month ~

Next Meeting: Wednesday, June 10

Pacific Beach Recreation Center, 1405 Diamond Street (one block south of Ingraham @ Gresham/Diamond) Enter on Gresham St.

For more information, contact Karin 858-405-7503.

** Agenda **
1) Endorsing the ideas proposed by Move San Diego for public transit
2) Eagle Scout Matt Gray - project status
3) Status on Crown Point Access
4) Tree/plant watering in June/July
5) SD River Foundation Youth Workers
6) Presentation on sewer replacement project along Santa Fe Street (Rose Creek) (7 PM)
7) Additional items TBA

Public Transit & Rose Creek

2009-06-02T19:18:00.000-07:00

Editorial by Karin Zirk

The way I see it, the only reason the Rose Creek corridor was spared undergrounding, like San Pedro Creek, or extensive development over the last fifty years, was that it was being saved for future development. Well the future is here. SANDAG is moving ahead with plans for light rail running along the creek. Now I'm a huge fan of public transit (I use it almost every day), but I'm also a huge fan of wild places in my neighborhood.

Currently SANDAG, the State of California high speed train project, the Coaster, Amtrak and the company running freight trains all have plans to put more tracks down along Rose Creek. Mostly there is a single or double track in the area now and that's plenty. If 6 more tracks are added, there goes our wild space.

At the May meeting of the Friends of Rose Creek, Move San Diego make a presentation on their vision for public transit in San Diego County - and it is based on high speed bus routes. The focus of the presentation was on the area in and around Rose Creek. For the most part, their ideas of keeping the buses on existing roadways made us very happy. Their plan is a plan in progress and we gave them plenty of input.

Their idea to put a transit connection at the intersection of Bond & Garnet in Pacific Beach seemed a bit far fetched to me. This of course was predicated on a bridge from the north east corner of Balboa and I-5 over the freeway and over Mission Bay Drive - another stretch of the imagination in my opinion. Hopefully they took our suggestions to heart that a better location for Pacific Beach would be near the entrance to Mission Bay Park and I-5 South so transit patrons could pop off the bus and roller blade or walk directly into the park.

However, I was very pleased with the consideration their plan gave to avoiding impacts to Rose Creek. I personally am a dreamer and I believe that we can have excellent public transit and greenbelts in our neighborhoods. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

San Diego Canyonlands & Rose Creek

2009-05-10T20:19:00.001-07:00

The Friends of Rose Creek is a member of San Diego Canyonlands, a local 501(c)3 that is providing essential services for our canyons and creeks. They serve as a catalyst for grassroots community organizing infrastructure, education, inspiration, and encouragement, research / advocacy toward dedication of the San Diego Regional Canyonlands Park.

They currently have a matching grant opportunity - Aaron Contorer and the Contorer Family Foundation have offered a challenge grant to help bolster San Diego Canyonlands. The grant is for $10,000 per year for three years and the challenge is to raise a total of $10,000 per year with three-year pledges from individual donors like you!

That's where you come in. Please pledge to donate $10 or $25 per year for the next three years. This great opportunity will provide partial funding for the hiring of a new program assistant for San Diego Canyonlands.

What does this mean for Rose Creek? - with an additional staff person, we can once again get support with volunteer recruitment and improve the turn out of our events. More volunteers at our events means less trash along the creek, more native trees and habitat, and less weeds. It means cooperative cleanup events between local schools and the Friends of Rose Creek and it helps give our local community group a voice at the table with the City of San Diego.

For more details on this great opportunity, please read the attached PDF document. SDCanyonlandsGrant.pdf

To make a three year pledge, just email San Diego Canyonlands today.

Monthly Meeting Wednesday May 13 @ 6 PM

2009-05-05T19:45:00.000-07:00

Inviting all residents, business owners, recreational users and others who have an interest in Rose Creek.

~ We meet the Second Wednesday of every month ~

Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 13

Pacific Beach Recreation Center, 1405 Diamond Street (one block south of Ingraham @ Gresham/Diamond) Enter on Gresham St.

For more information, contact Karin 858-405-7503.

** Agenda **
1) Earth Fair Wrap up
2) Eagle Scout Matt Gray - project status
3) Status on Crown Point Access
4) Tree/plant watering in June/July
5) Changing schedule on monthly gardening event
6) Move San Diego's proposed impacts to lower Rose Creek
7) Additional items TBA

Earth Fair Fun

2009-04-22T19:16:00.000-07:00

In case you missed the Rose Creek Watershed Alliance Booth at Earth Fair on Sunday, April 19 in San Diego's Balboa Park, here's some photos of all the fun. The Friends of Rose Creek is a member organization of the Alliance. Special thanks to Joe, Billy, Brian, Karin and Dennis who staffed the booth, shared knowledge on native plants and watershed basics. Lots of great discussions took place as fair visitors enjoyed our cool shady spot on the grass. The long eared owl was a huge hit.

Rose Creek Watershed Alliance Newsletter

2009-04-19T18:53:00.000-07:00

For those of you who missed us at Earth Fair today, here's the Rose Creek Watershed Alliance's April 2009 newletter (in PDF format). Thanks to Brian, Joe, Dennis & Billy for volunteering at the booth - it was a great day!

EarthFairNewsletter.pdf

Monthly Meeting Wednesday April 8 @ 6 PM

2009-04-04T10:36:00.000-07:00

Native Plant Weed & Water Saturday, April 11 @ 10 AM

2009-04-04T10:30:00.000-07:00

The Nature School - Native Plant Garden Maintenance *

Join us for Native Plant Gardening and Tree Watering on Saturday April 11 from 10 AM until noon.

Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. Park on Fogg Street just South of Garnet.

Join the Friends of Rose Creek on the Second Saturday of every month from 10 AM until Noon while we work on The Nature School’s native plant interpretive garden behind Rose Creek Cottage. Enjoy weeding, watering and planting native species and get involved with your creek and your community. We'll have snacks and beverages.

Easy one to two hours project - great for children of all ages. However, due to liability concerns, all minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the event.

Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves. More information Karin Zirk 858-405-7503 or kzirk@earthlink.net

* Part of the Rose Creek Wetlands & Salt Marsh Restoration and Nature Education Preserve project by The Nature Institute. New habitat restoration supported by The Nature Institute and the City of San Diego Environmental Services Dept.

Join us at Earth Fair - Sunday April 19 10 AM to 5 PM

2009-04-04T10:16:00.000-07:00

The annual EarthFair in Balboa Park is the largest free annual environmental fair in the world. EarthFair 2009 will be the 20th anniversary – the 40th anniversary of Earth Day! Each year, the EarthFair draws around 70,000 visitors.

The Friends of Rose Creek will be volunteering in a booth for the Rose Creek Watershed Alliance - of which we are a member organization. Stop by and have all your questions answered about the watershed, the City Council's formal adoption of watershed based planning for the area, and find out what's going on in the watershed.

We'll be on the eastern side of the Prado, so stop by and find out how you can help improve the health of our watershed and why you might be interested.

Creek to Bay Cleanup - Saturday April 25th from 9am - 12noon

2009-04-04T10:05:00.001-07:00

This year, the Friends of Rose Creek is not hosting a cleanup site. However, we would like to encourage all the great volunteers to turn out for another inland site needing volunteers. If you're looking for a site, try anyone of the inland sites listed here.

Tree Watering at Rose Creek - Sunday April 26 @ 1 PM

2009-04-04T08:28:00.000-07:00

We have eleven trees that need ten to fifteen gallons of water each. Plus fifteen smaller plants that needs about a gallon each. We have tools, equipment and a water source.

Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. If there's a wedding going on, please don't park in the cottage parking lot. There's parking on Fogg Street just west of the cottage and south of Garnet Avenue. To sign up, please email us.

Native Plant Weeding & Water Saturday, March 14 @ 10 AM

2009-03-03T06:47:00.000-08:00

The Nature School - Native Plant Garden Maintenance *

Join us for Native Plant Gardening on Saturday March 14 from 10 AM until noon.

Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. Park on Fogg Street just South of Garnet.

Join the Friends of Rose Creek on the Second Saturday of every month from 10 AM until Noon while we work on The Nature School’s native plant interpretive garden behind Rose Creek Cottage. Enjoy weeding, watering and planting native species and get involved with your creek and your community.

Easy one to two hours project - great for children of all ages. However, due to liability concerns, all minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the event.

Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves. More information Karin Zirk 858-405-7503 or kzirk@earthlink.net

* Part of the Rose Creek Wetlands & Salt Marsh Restoration and Nature Education Preserve project by The Nature Institute. New habitat restoration supported by The Nature Institute and the City of San Diego Environmental Services Dept.

Monthly Meeting Wednesday March 11 @ 6 PM

2009-03-03T06:45:00.000-08:00

Valentine's Day Gardening Extravaganza

2009-02-13T19:04:00.000-08:00

Saturday only has a 10% chance of rain so we're still planning on meeting at the garden. If in doubt, call Karin 858-405-7503 in the morning. We have a volunteer bringing mulch and will have bagels for breakfast - so come one out and wear clothes you don't mind getting muddy. The soil should be moist so that should make it easy to pull those weeds!

Valentine's Day Gardening Extravaganza - - Saturday, Feb 14

2009-01-25T09:45:00.000-08:00

The Nature School - Native Plant Garden Maintenance *

Join us for a Valentine's Day Gardening Extravaganza on Saturday February 14 from 10 AM until 1 PM.

Thanks to bountiful rain in December, the native plant garden and trees are doing great. Unfortunately the weeds are doing just as well. We need 15 people to help with a gardening party. We'll be weeding, watering and maybe even a bit of planting.

We'll have snacks, gardening tools and know how. And special Valentine's day chocolate treats!

All we need is your fingers and arms to get the garden cleaned up. If you need community service hours, come on down and pick up three hours of work and leave with verification in your hands.

If anyone has a pickup truck and would be in to doing a run up to Miramar for mulch, we could use the mulch.

Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. Park on Fogg Street just South of Garnet.

Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves. More information Karin Zirk 858-405-7503 or kzirk@earthlink.net

* Part of the Rose Creek Wetlands & Salt Marsh Restoration and Nature Education Preserve project by The Nature Institute. New habitat restoration supported by The Nature Institute and the City of San Diego Environmental Services Dept.

Monthly Meeting Wednesday February 11 @ 6 PM

2009-01-25T04:00:00.000-08:00

Last Child in the Woods Author to speak, February 24

2009-01-22T09:41:00.000-08:00

Last Child in the Woods

The recipient of the 2008 Audubon Medal, Richard Louv identified a phenomenon we all knew existed but couldn't quite articulate: nature-deficit disorder. Since its initial publication, his book Last Child in the Woods has created a national conversation about the disconnection between children and nature, and his message has galvanized an international movement. Now, three years later, we have reached a tipping point, with the book inspiring Leave No Child Inside initiatives throughout the country.

The Friends of Rose Creek is committed to maintaining nature in our neighborhood so our children have a place to experience the wonder of Great Blue Heron's fishing or a Mullet spawning.

Richard will be at Point Loma Nazarene College on February 24. For details click here.

4th Saturday Tree Watering @ 1 PM (February 28)

2009-01-22T09:31:00.000-08:00

We have eleven trees that need fifteen gallons of water each. Plus fifteen smaller plants that needs about a gallon each. We have tools, equipment and a water source. It takes about three human hours to complete the task depending on how fast you work. This means you will need to be there for about an hour and a half if two people are watering. An hour if we get three volunteers.

Monthly Meeting January 14, 2009 @ 6 PM

2008-12-25T17:27:00.000-08:00

Inviting all residents, business owners, recreational users and others who have an interest in Rose Creek.

~ We meet the Second Wednesday of every month ~

Next Meeting: Wednesday, January 14

Pacific Beach Recreation Center, 1405 Diamond Street (one block south of Ingraham @ Gresham/Diamond) Enter on Gresham St.

For more information, contact Karin 858-405-7503.

** Agenda **
1) Trash can update
2) Bike/Pedestrian Grant - Letter of Support*
3) Canceling the monthly gardening event at Rose Creek
4) Finding funding to create the maintenance assessment district ($50K)
5) Additional items TBA

* The Rose Creek Watershed Alliance is appling for a grant to (1) connect the missing class 1 bikeway along the creek from where it stops at the end of Santa Fe in Clairemont to where it starts again at Mission Bay Drive in PB and (2) get a bike/ped bridge over the railroad tracks and under the HW 5/52 freeways. We are seeking letters of support.

WATER Institute

2008-12-23T16:38:00.000-08:00

In 2004 the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) established the WATER Institute (Watershed Advocacy, Training, Education, & Research) to promote understanding of the importance of healthy watersheds to healthy communities. Building upon OAEC’s many years of work to protect Coastal California’s watersheds, the WATER Institute promotes a vision of restoring and protecting all watersheds, or "Basins of Relations," utilizing a framework of regenerative water-use practices known as Conservation Hydrology.

This is a great website and has lots of useful information for us socal watershed folks.

Visit them today.

San Mateo Creek Saved!

2008-12-18T13:35:00.000-08:00

From today's Los Angeles Times.

"U.S. Commerce Department rejects Foothill South toll road
By Susannah Rosenblatt
10:33 AM PST, December 18, 2008

The controversial Foothill South toll road, proposed to connect south Orange County with north San Diego County, was handed a major blow this morning when the U.S. Commerce Department announced it would uphold the state Coastal Commission's rejection of the plan."

Thank you Southern California. We came together and said no toll roads through our parks and sacred places. Job well done. A huge shout out to Surfrider for all their hard work.