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Education Volunteering Opportunity: Salmon in the Schools Release Day
Elementary Salmon in the Schools – Release Day Field Trip NOSC staff and students observe macroinvertebrates (salmon food!) from Chimacum Creek. Photo by Mae Wolfe. 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 ... Read More
Earth Day Mulching Event 2023!
Are you hoping to spend this Earth Day doing something that will having a lasting impact on our local environment? Come join us for a fun, community-filled day of mulching (and possibly planting) on the wild & scenic Dungeness River. This winter, over 200 volunteers and students and our Washington Conservation Corps crew dedicated their time to plant and ... Read More
Fin Swims the Rhody Grand Parade!
Fin in her finest attire for the 2014 Rhody Festival. Photo courtesy of Brian Clark Join us on Saturday, May 20th in Port Townsend for the 2023 Rhody Grand Parade! Fin the Migrating Salmon - all 2,500 pounds of her - will be traveling back up the streets of Port Townsend once again this year! We need your help! Prior ... Read More
Education Volunteering Opportunity: Real Learning Real Work Field Trip
Salmon Creek in Discovery Bay W Uncas Road7th-8th Grade Real Learning Real Work – Site Maintenance & Career Connections Students work to install protective blue tubing around their plants. Photo by NOSC Staff. Students will be assessing plant health and conducting a mortality study, while executing maintenance tasks such as installing blue tubing and removing invasive species. Students will also talk to career professionals in field ranging ... Read More
Education Volunteering Opportunity: Real Learning Real Work Field Trip
7th-8th Grade Real Learning Real Work – Site Maintenance & Career Connections Students work to install protective blue tubing around their plants. Photo by NOSC Staff. Students will be assessing plant health and conducting a mortality study, while executing maintenance tasks such as installing blue tubing and removing invasive species. Students will also talk to career professionals in field ranging ... Read More
Volunteer Spawner Surveys Training
Finnriver Farm & Cidery 124 Center Road, Chimacum, WAIt’s hard to believe, but salmon spawner survey season is just around the corner, and we are seeking survey volunteers! The Salmon Coalition has been conducting surveys of Endangered Species Act (ESA) listed Hood Canal summer chum salmon on Chimacum Creek since their reintroduction to the creek in the mid-1990’s. Collected data helps the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ... Read More
Orca Recovery Day
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 salmon. Recent studies have shown that when Chinook salmon, the preferred prey of Southern ... Read More
*POSTPONED EVENT* Native Plant Nursery Expansion Work Party
Finnriver Farm & Cidery 124 Center Road, Chimacum, WAWe 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
*CANCELLED EVENT* MLK Jr Day of Service at the Caldero Restoration Site
* Cancelled due to inclement weather * Are you hoping to spend this Martin Luther King Jr. Day doing something that will having a lasting impact on your local community? Come join us for a fun, community-filled day of mulching and planting on the wild & scenic Dungeness River. Last winter, over 200 volunteers and students and our Washington Conservation ... Read More
**Cancelled due to snow and ice** Caldero Side Channel Phase 2 Planting Party
Come join us for the final phase of the Caldero Side Channel planting! Last winter, over 200 volunteers and students and our Washington Conservation Corps crew dedicated their time to plant and mulch nearly 7,000 trees and shrubs at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s Caldero Side Channel Project. This year, we are moving on to Phase 2 of the planting to ... Read More