Students learning to propagate native plants at SPAWN's Watershed Nursery

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Stream Restoration and Native Plant Nursery Program

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Each year, SPAWN volunteers contribute many hundreds of hours towards restoring streamside habitat in the watershed. Volunteers (including students, biologists, and citizens from across the Bay Area) work to plant native trees and understory plants, and remove invasive species.

Stabilize banks and restore stream habitat with living materials such as willow.

Over the years, we have focused restoration efforts at Roy's Pools (formerly Roy's Dam) to re-create riparian habitat so as to provide shade and shelter for juvenile salmonids in the pools. In 2005, our efforts expanded to encompass restoring vegetation along hundreds-of-feet of riparian habitat upstream of Roy's Pools on the San Geronimo Creek. We also launched our community-based native plant nursery program which will serve to grow thousands of native plants to support local restoration programs and provide plants to landowners living along stream corridors in the San Geronimo Valley.

Find out how you can get involved! Contact Paola Bouley (SPAWN's Watershed Biologist) at paola@spawnusa.org, or 415.488.0370 ×102