Salmon Celebration Sat May 5 & Sun May 6th!
Join FIN for two fun filled events to celebration salmon.
Sat May 5th 1-5pm: Salmon Celebration – Family Fun Day!
located at TheCarWash, corner of W. Sims and Howard street in Port Towsnend.
Join us after the market for an afternoon of games and activities to celebrate salmon and all the restoration in and around the area. See demonstrations of the Elwha Removal and reduce your impact on polluted stormwater by treating yourself to $2 carwashes.
Sun May 6th 3-9pm: Salmon Trivia, BBQ and Music at the Pourhouse.
Trivia @ 6pm
Let the celebration continue! Come hungry and fill up on salmon BBQ from Dos Okies. Let’s raise our glasses to the summer chum and coho as they head out to sea. Salmon Trivia, BBQ, FIN, and delicious beer – it’s time to give ourselves a pat on the back for all the hard work we’ve done. Bring some friends and form your own trivia group.
Prizes include:
Elevated Ice Cream gift certificate
Waterfront Pizza gift certificate
1lb of coffee from Better Living Through Coffee
Madrona Institute certificate for classes….
Peabody Creek Earth Day Clean-up
Join NOSC and the Feiro Marine Life Center clean up Peabody Creek in Port Angeles for EarthDay!
Participants will sign-in at 8am on the second floor of the Landing Mall under ‘Team Peabody Creek’ and then we will walk down to the site together. At sign-in you will receive a $5 food token and a pass for PA’s afternoon EarthDay events such as the ‘Trashion’ show, art show and live music.
Please RSVP to Jac at jentringer@nosc.org or (360) 379-8051.
Team Peabody Poster
Map of the Landing Mall
Let’s celebrate the earth by cleaning your local stream
Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2012-04-21
FREE TREE GIVE-A-WAY & FIN-filled fun
FREE TREES and FIN-filled Fun!
Meet and climb aboard ‘FIN’ and get a salmon-friendly tree to plant at home!
What: Free Evergreen Trees & FIN-filled Fun Event!(FIN? She’s a 25’, 2500 lb, fiberglass traveling Chum salmon sculpture, with a picturesque viewable mural-interior!)
Get a free tree and learn more about NOSC restoration projects and volunteer opportunities. Proceeds will benefit salmon habitat improvement projects and NOSC watershed education programs.
When: Saturday, April 14, 2012
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Where: Salmon Coalition Parking Lot @
205 W. Patison Street in Port Hadlock
(also Jefferson Co. WSU Extension Parking Lot)
Hosts: North Olympic Salmon Coalition Board
Questions? Email info@nosc.org or Call NOSC (360) 379-8051
Salmon Days at Grant Street Elementary – Vols needed
NOSC will be hosting salmon-related games and FIN tours for students of Grant Street Elementary.
Each class will come out and play ‘Hooks & Ladders’, Restoration Tag, or The Life Cycle Game and get a chance to go inside and explore the mural inside FIN. This is an extremely fun day celebrating the salmon classes raised in the classroom and released into Pidling Creek in Oak Bay.
We are looking for people to help us run games with students and supervise them as they enter FIN.
Join in on the fun! Please contact Jac at volunteer@nosc.org or (360) 379-8051 to help out.
Donovan Creek Planting – Help needed this week
Title: Donovan Creek Planting
Location: Quilcene
Link out: Click here
Description: Currently we are looking for as many people as possible to help our WCC crew complete a large scale 24,000 plant project along Donovan Creek in Quilcene. One of the crew members is out because she had carpel tunnel surgery on both of her wrists so we need extra help filling her place. As you have probably seen trees are budding and we need to get these plants in the ground ASAP. The Crew will be there Monday-Thurs (April 9-12) 8:00am-4:30pm and would really appreciate any time you can give to help complete this planting.
Donovan Creek is a beautiful location and you would be working with our extremely friendly WCC Crew and Owen French the Crew Supervisor. They are on site from 8:00-4:30pm and whatever time you can help out with will be greatly appreciated. The crew brought extra shovels in hopes people would join them. Aliina will be out there for most days as well. Owen advises rain boots because some sites are particularly muddy.
Directions to work site: http://g.co/maps/ywwhu
– Head south on Center Road
– Take a left on McInnis Rd
– The site will be on your left. Look for a brown gate and a JEFFERSON LAND TRUST sign. You can park at the river or the side of the road.
– If you miss McInnis Rd you can take a left on East Quilcene Rd, then a Left on McInnis.
– Owen’s number (Crew Supervisor) is (360) 470-0004
Any bit of help will be greatly appreciated. If you have friends or neighbors, bring them along! Please call the office (360) 379-8051 if you have any questions.
Start Date: 2012-04-09
Start Time: 08:00
End Date: 2012-04-12
End Time: 16:00
Fyke Netting in Discovery Bay
Title: Fyke Netting in Discovery Bay
Location: Discovery Bay
Date: 2012-04-12
Do you want some hands-on experience with fish? See Discovery Bay from a different perspective and witness the benefits all our restoration has done for ESA listed Summer Chum. We are looking for a few individuals to help us with our Fyke net survey. We place nets out in the bay during high tide and monitor fish as they leave when the tide goes out. Chest waders and boots can be provided.
April Fyke Netting will be:
Wed, April 11th 7:00am – 11:00am
Thur, April 12th 7:30am-11:30am
If you are interested please contact Jac by emailing jentringer@nosc.org or call (360) 379-8051. We hope you’ll join us!
Potluck and Movie Night! Thursday March 8
Volunteer Appreciation Event
Please join us in thanking YOU and all our other volunteers for all their hard work.
Come at 6:00p for picnic style potluck dinner with a slide show in the Spruce Rm at the Shold Buisness Park followed by a 7:00pm showing of the movie Bag it.
It is an indoor “Picnic Style” setting so bring your chairs, blankets, pillows, bowls, and plates and we will bring the popcorn!
Tree planting & tubing @ Snow Creek: Sat Feb 11th & 18th
Planting and Blue Tube Party at Snow Creek!
Only a couple hundred plants left of the 5,550 plants going in along Snow Creek this winter. We need volunteers to ensure these plants get in the ground and protected before it is too late. We will be putting protective blue tubes so the trees will not get munched on by deer, overgrown by invasives or whacked with a brush cutter during maintenance days. It’s gonna be a tubing partaay! We’ll provide gloves and shovels. Please bring water and lunch and wear appropriate warm clothing and footwear. RSVP to Jac at jentringer@nosc.org or call the office at (360) 379-8051 so we can bring enough tools.
Saturday Feb. 11
10:00am-2:00pm
Tree planting and Tubing Party
Saturday Feb. 18
10am-2:00pm
Tubing & PIZZA party! Pizza from Ferino’s
Directions to site:
Snow Creek is located in Discovery Bay. From 101, Take W Uncas Rd (just west of where Rt 20 meets 101 near the ‘buffalo/elk jerky hut’). On your left hand side you’ll see a dirt road. Look for a NOSC sign and park at the beginning of this dirt road. Space is limited so carpooling is encouraged. From there, walk down the dirt road to find NOSC and the planting site.
Parking for Snow Creek Planting Event
Tree planting @ Chimacum Beach, Sat Feb 4th 10am-2pm
Come check out a beautiful local restoration project!
Tree Planting at Chimacum Beach
Saturday, Feburary 4th
10:00am – 2:00pm
We’ll be meeting at the Irondale Beach Park (562 Moore St Port Hadlock). We’ll provide gloves and shovels, please bring water, lunch, rain gear and appropriate footwear. Metro Bagels is donating some bagels for the event. If you think you can attend, shoot me an email at jentringer@nosc.org or call the office (360) 379-8051.
I hope to see all you fish fans out there -
PS – for those who are up for an extra challenge, consider riding your bike to this event!
Fyke Netting in Discovery Bay – new dates
Fyke Netting in Discovery Bay
Do you want some hands-on experience with fish? Do you enjoy playing in the water? We are looking for a few individuals to help us with our Fyke net survey. We place nets out in the bay to see which fish are utilizing the estuary.
2012 Fyke Netting will be:
Feb 14 at 7:30am – 12:30p
Feb 15 at 8 am – 1pm
March 13 at 7am -12pm
March 14 at 8am – 1pm
email jentringer@nosc.org or call (360) 379-8051 to sign up!
