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!
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
FINALLY SPAWNERS SPAWNING Salmon Watch 2025 got under way on Oct. 26 but our coho spawners toyed for days before making landfall, much to the
Salmon Watch 2025 to document coho spawners in Fauntleroy Creek will get under way on Sunday, Oct. 26, with the annual drumming to call in spawners.
On June 1, a community salmon release tucked the last of 2,281 coho fry into Fauntleroy Creek, where they will spend the next year before