Welcome to the Fauntleroy watershed website – the closest thing to being here on the West Seattle peninsula, Seattle, Washington, USA. On these pages, you’ll find details about the watershed’s major natural features – Fauntleroy Creek and Fauntleroy Park – as well as information about our education program and all manner of other things. Enjoy your visit!
After a lively drumming on Oct. 25 to call in spawners, 32 volunteers are now checking lower Fauntleroy Creek to document coho coming in from Puget Sound to start the next generation.
Ardent fishers on the beach at Lincoln Park are catching robust coho, so with high hopes, we are preparing for spawning season on Fauntleroy Creek.
Fishers have been catching robust coho off the beach at Lincoln Park since mid September – evidence that spawners are gathering to come into Fauntleroy Creek.
Four-year-olds from the Urban Nature Preschool got a taste of environmental research in April when they counted and measured stonefly exoskeletons in lower Fauntleroy Creek.
Soft net traps are now installed in the upper and lower creek so that volunteers can count how many coho smolts head to saltwater. Monitors
In November, watchers documented one spawning pair among the nine adults that came into the lower creek. Soon volunteers will tart monitoring the area for