Oct 1, 2025 | Creature Feature, Featured Articles, News
Earlier this year, the Coastal Watershed Council helped spotlight the beauty of our local birds by co-hosting a Bilingual Bird Walk with The Bird School Project. Community members joined us for a beautiful morning at the San Lorenzo River to learn about the unique... 
Sep 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, News, River Art
The natural treasures of the San Lorenzo River are now on display in downtown Santa Cruz in a big way. Soaring portraits of special river species like the Western pond turtle and California tule feature in the 55-foot-tall mural “Echoes of a Wetland” recently... 
Sep 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Habitat Enhancement, News
by Kaiya Giuliano-Monroy, CWC River Ecologist This October, the Coastal Watershed Council is marking ten years of habitat enhancement efforts on the lower San Lorenzo River driven by hard-working volunteers! To celebrate, we want to highlight the most recent chapter... 
Jun 13, 2025 | CWC Staff, News
A big welcome to the newest member of the CWC team, restoration technician Katie Dalessi! Katie is part of CWC’s habitat enhancement program along the San Lorenzo River. Read on to learn more about her and her work! As a restoration technician for the Coastal... 
Feb 20, 2025 | Creature Feature, Featured Articles
This article written by Will Ware, CalTrout Bay Area Project Coordinator, was originally published by CalTrout in CalTrout News on May 31, 2024. View the Original Article on CalTrout.org Ghosts of Past & Present Monitoring salmon and steelhead is like ghost...