Friday January 9, 2026
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance —
In the Lagunitas Creek watershed of Marin County, the Olema-based nonprofit called Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) is helping to increase the largest population of Central California Coast wild coho salmon. The program focused on this project is TIRN’s Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN).
SPAWN has a staff of one full-time employee, several residential interns, and hundreds of volunteers. The program takes on a variety of projects, including cultivating native plants, re-creating floodplains, and building woody debris structures in streams to increase habitat complexity.