We’re thrilled to announce our very first cohort of Climate Resilience Fellows in collaboration with San Diego Canyonlands. Ten fellows have been selected to help advance climate solutions in San Diego through training and skills development related to climate resilience, Nature-based Solutions, community outreach, habitat restoration, and more.
Most organizations in the Park are nonprofits struggling to balance their own budgets amid rising costs. We know and understand the City is struggling, but why make the nonprofits and local families struggle too?
We urge careful consideration of how paid parking will create unintended consequences, including discouraging visitation, limiting equitable access, and introducing new safety concerns. The push to generate revenue must not come at the expense of those who can no longer afford to enjoy San Diego’s crown jewel.
We are—quite literally—raising the roof. The Museum is embarking on a major construction project that will replace its aging Atrium skylight panels with a new and improved solid roof design that allows for solar panels and better climate control.
Last year, the Museum debuted the Nature Trail, a free outdoor exhibit that showcases native plants from Southern California and the Baja California peninsula. This year, the team in charge of maintaining the garden proposed adding more species. The best way to get it done? Throwing a party, duh!
After the financial crash of 1929 and her husband’s death, Ethel Bailey Higgins was alone in the world. She was widowed, age 67, with 14 cents to her name. But her life was about to bloom.
In 1928, a group of nature lovers proposed a protected park in the Borrego desert.
Voters rejected a bond to fund the project, and the idea stalled. But one nature lover—a member of the San Diego Society of Natural History—wouldn’t give up.
Way back in the 1800s, a small but dedicated group of members from the San Diego Society of Natural History worked to preserve the Torrey pine, unique to our area.