Students have spent the last couple months raising coho salmon from eggs and now will get a chance to release them into a local waterway. They will also participate in several other activities such as macroinvertebrate studies, salmon life cycle games, art, and habitat tours. Volunteers help NOSC staff lead activities, set-up and take-down supplies, and ensure students rotate through … 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
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
2022-2023 Annual Report
To view page 2 – click on the right side of the report. 2023 Annual Report FINAL by Salmon Coalition
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
Giving Tuesday 2023
Banner photos courtesy of Charles Espey, Mae Wolfe, and NOSC Staff. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. It was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate … 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