Returning Home: Bringing the Common Murre Back to Devil's Slide Rock

In 1986, a breeding colony of Common Murres on Devil's Slide Rock off the coast of San Francisco was devastated by an oil spill. Using innovative restoration techniques in a challenging location, dedicated scientists worked with local schools and government agencies to restore these diving seabirds to their ancestral home.

Updated in 2005 with new footage showing the removal of social attraction equipment from the rock as the project progressed.

  • Broadcast on select PBS stations
  • Telly Award
  • Aurora Award
  • Marin Environmental Film Festival
  • Merit Award for Storytelling, International Wildlife Film Festival
  • Society for Ecological Restoration 2004 Special Presentation
  • Presented as part of Natural Heroes series on national PBS, summer 2006

Topic areas: Ecosystem Management, Environmental Studies, Marine Biology, Wildlife Biology, Oceanography

Produced, written, and directed by Kevin White.

26 minutes

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