by River Otter | Jan 3, 2026 | Environment, Inspiration
by Megan Isadore, January 1, 2026 Every New Year’s Day for 27 years, I’ve made a pilgrimage to Lagunitas Creek to commune with the redwoods, firs, maples, toyon and huckleberry, look for newts mating in the side puddles, seek the bright flash of Townsends...
by River Otter | Mar 28, 2025 | Environment, River Otters, Watershed
by Terence Carroll, Research Director (published in Marin Lawyer, March 2025) In coming years, sea level rise will have profound consequences for coastal West Marin. These consequences include threats to shoreline development, natural resources such as wetlands and...
by River Otter | Nov 26, 2021 | Ecology, Environment, River Otters, Watershed
By Andrea A. Treece Andrea is a field volunteer with River Otter Ecology Project’s monitoring program in Marin County. She spends her workdays as a senior attorney for for EarthJustice, protecting forage fish species like herring, anchovies and sardines,...
by River Otter | Aug 9, 2020 | Activism, Ecology, Environment, Watershed
This past summer, I spent my second time in Tulum, Tankah Bay. Staring into the sea, body absorbing sun, inhaling salt air, my feet buried and unburied in sand. I now look for these elements in poems. Where is the earth? Air? Fire? Where is the poem’s water? Together...
by River Otter | Jul 13, 2019 | Ecology, Environment, River Otters, Volunteers, Watershed
By Terence Carroll, ROEP President, Informatics and Data Manager I headed out on a quiet Tomales Bay morning. A few fishermen dotted the bay, and I nodded a greeting to a fellow kayaker putting in at the launch. I stowed my field gear in my trusty research...
by River Otter | Nov 17, 2018 | Activism, Comments needed, Environment, River Otters, Supporters, Watershed
Dear friends, Point Reyes National Seashore requests and needs your help by November 30. Please join us in submitting concerns and comments about how you would like the park to be managed going forward. Your input will affect what happens to the tule elk,...