San Diego Coastkeeper is a local organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of swimmable, fishable and drinkable waters in San Diego County. Aa article in the San Diego Union Tribune summarizes the 2014 state of the local watershed based up the SD Coastkeeper data gathered by local citizen scientist teams. Click here to read the March 2015 article.
Preserve Calavera had its own Coastkeeper team that monitored Buena Vista Creek at 3 locations every other month. Since 2019, however, when Coastkeeper lost their funding, Preserve Calavera took over the monitoring of the 3 lagoon watersheds in Carlsbad. Click here for more information on that program.
For more information on the 3 lagoons within Carlsbad visit their foundation sites:
Encinas Creek
On July 26, 2014 volunteers with San Diego Canyonlands led a hike along the Encinas Creek in Carlsbad with the goal of having local residents begin monitoring this watershed. This small creek has its headwaters behind the new Lowe’s on Palomar Airport Road. As part of the hike Carlsbad deputy fire marshal Greg Ryan spoke to the group about wildfires – in particular vegetation in yards and in the defensible space surrounding those yards.
photo by J. Cannon
Unusual find on the hike:
Exotic nutmeg mannikin
Photo by J. Cannon
