Laura Szawarzenski saw her involvement with a local environmental group as a way to help safeguard wildlife in the patchwork of waterways that make up the Lagunitas Creek watershed.
But after years of participating in biological studies with the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN), her views grew dim. The group was transferring federally endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout from overcrowded parts of streams to less populated areas in what Ms. Szawarnzenski saw as…