Volunteers Needed for Student Field Trips!

It is that season again and we are gearing up to get our middle school students out in the field to start executing their restoration planting projects they spent all this winter designing. We have several field trips coming up in Clallam and Jefferson Counties this spring and are in need of volunteers to help guide students as part of … Read More

Native Plant Nursery – Volunteer Work Party 2/27

Come join us as we pot up plants for future riparian restoration projects. We recently expanded our native plant nursery in partnership with the Jefferson County Conservation District and now we get to stock it up with trees and shrubs that will eventually become future forests along our local creeks and rivers. We will be potting up trees and shrubs … Read More

Stream Stewards Training – Registration Open!

Stream StewardsLocation: Various locations in Jefferson & Clallam countiesWhen: Wednesdays 9am – 12:30pm, March 6th – April 3rdThe Stream Stewards Program, hosted by WSU and the North Olympic Salmon Coalition, provides Jefferson and Clallam County residents with the opportunity to turn environmental knowledge into action. Through this 5-week course, participants learn about connections between our lands and waters. Through classroom … Read More

February Volunteer Plantings at Uncas Preserve

Join us as we plant a forest along the banks of the newly restored Snow Creek Uncas Preserve Reach near Discovery Bay! After completing the first stage of floodplain and large woody debris work last summer, the next stage of this project is working to restore a healthy and diverse riparian forest on the shores of Snow Creek. We have … Read More

Bar Stool Bingo at the Hilltop Tavern

Get your stamping hands ready, because BINGO is back! Bring your friends, celebrate, and enjoy a guaranteed good time. Join NOSC from 7pm-9pm at the Hilltop Tavern in Port Townsend. Bar Stool BINGO is $1 per round or $10 to play all 10 rounds – prizes for winners and fun to go around! All proceeds from Bingo, every Wednesday in … Read More

Order NOSC Merchandise for the Holidays!

Give the gift of NOSC this holiday season! A NOSC membership is a great gift for the service-minded individual who doesn’t need another “thing” or you can make a donation in the name of a friend or family member. Visit Donate | North Olympic Salmon Coalition (nosc.org) for more information. We will be accepting pre-orders for NOSC merchandise for pick-up … Read More

*POSTPONED EVENT* December 11th Nursery Expansion Work Party

We are expanding our nursery in partnership with Jefferson County Conservation District to make room for more riparian plants along our waterways! Come work alongside our Washington Conservation Corps crew as we break ground on the new expansion and prep the site for installment of potted trees and shrubs. Event will take place from 1:00-3:00pm at Finnriver Cidery. Refreshments, gloves … Read More

Coho Spawner Survey Training – Volunteers Needed!

Goodbye Chum, Hello Coho! With our summer chum spawner surveys wrapping up on Chimacum Creek, it’s the time of year where the Salmon Coalition transitions to surveying for coho salmon in the Chimacum watershed. Unlike summer chum surveys, where volunteers walk the lower 2-3 miles of the creek, coho surveys take volunteers into the creek’s uppermost headwaters. Indeed, coho salmon … Read More

Member Tour: Hoko River Watershed – Oct. 28th

Photo: Culvert removal project on Johnson Creek (a tributary to the Hoko River) during construction – by NOSC Staff. Join Project Manager, Kevin Long for an all-day tour of NOSC’s restoration work on the Hoko River! Saturday, October 28th – 10:30am-4:30pm. We’ll explore several projects throughout the Hoko River, weaving together the story of restoring this crucial watershed. The tour … Read More

Orca Recovery Day – Volunteer Planting Oct. 14th

Sign-up to plant native species in support of orcas on October 14th from 10am-12:30pm. Come join us again in celebrating Orca Recovery Day as the Jefferson County Conservation District, the North Olympic Salmon Coalition, and Jefferson Land Trust team up for a planting event at the Snow Creek Estuary! This estuary is important habitat for Endangered Hood Canal summer chum … Read More