Dungeness River Planting
2022-03-02 10:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-05 10:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-11 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Come join the Clallam County Conservation District, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and the Salmon Coalition to help plant native shrubs and trees along the Dungeness River in Sequim. The plantings will occur on February 24th, February 25th, March 2nd, March 5th and March 11th. Click on the link below for more details on timing and parking, as well as to register for the events!
https://clallamcd.org/volunteerevents

Port Angeles Farmer's Market
2022-06-11 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-07-23 10:00 - 14:00 | 133 E Front St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, 133 E Front St, Port Angeles, 98362, United States

Port Townsend Farmer's Market
2022-07-02 09:00 - 14:00, 2022-08-13 09:00 - 14:00 | Port Townsend Farmers Market, 650 Tyler St, Port Townsend, WA, 98368, United States

Sequim Farmer's Market
2022-07-09 09:00 - 14:00, 2022-08-27 09:00 - 14:00 | Sequim Farmers and Artisans Market, 152 W. Cedar St., Sequim, WA, 98382, United States

Volunteer Event: River's Edge Mulching
2022-07-14 09:00 - 15:30
Need some fun this summer? Join the Clallam Conservation District, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, and North Olympic Salmon Coalition on Thursday, July 14th at the River’s Edge Restoration project along the Dungeness River in Sequim. Volunteers will help mulch around newly planted native trees and shrubs, and install and straighten plant protectors. The mulch will help young plants to retain moisture throughout the summer to help with their survival, and the plant protectors help to keep small rodents from damaging trees and shrubs. Click here to learn more and RSVP for the event!

Real Learning Real Work: Chimacum Middle School Field Trip #1
2022-10-10

Real Learning Real Work: Blue Heron Field Trip #1
2022-10-13

Orca Recovery Day @ Snow Creek Estuary
2022-10-15
In partnership with the Jefferson County Conservation District and Jefferson Land Trust, we are hosting a community planting and stewardship event at Snow Creek Estuary Preserve. Volunteers will plant native shrubs and mulch plants to help improve their survival. All are welcome!

Real Learning Real Work: Sequim Field Trip #1
2022-10-25 - 2022-10-26

Coho Spawner Training
2022-11-09 10:00 - 12:00
With the summer chum spawner surveys coming to an end on Chimacum Creek, the coho surveys are right around the corner! Interested in participating? We will be hosting a volunteer training on November 9th at Finnriver Farm in Chimacum. Training starts at 10:00 am and will finish at 12:00pm. Spots are limited to 25 attendees! RSVP by using this link:

https://secure.lglforms.com/form…/s/JK-85qxbQMmYMsmcyWJq7g

2022 Annual Meeting
2022-11-16 18:00 - 20:00
Join us virtually on November 16th at 6pm to help celebrate another successful year at the Salmon Coalition! You’ll learn about updates on our current projects, stories from taking 7th graders into the field with Real Learning Real Work, and the successes of our first year raising salmon with elementary students with Salmon in the Schools!
RSVP (https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/lI3gBcAIc_oktVOla481iA) for our Annual Meeting held via Zoom. After RSVPing you will receive the Zoom link via email. We look forward to sharing stories and celebrating the year’s work with you!

2022 Annual Pie Party
2022-11-20 13:00 - 15:00
Ready to celebrate in person? Join us on November 20th at 1pm at the Finnriver Haybarn for a Pie Party. Bake a pie to share and reconnect, meet new staff, and have a slice (or three)!
The Haybarn at Finnriver is an enclosed, unheated space and we plan to have doors open to the outside for maximum air flow. Plan to dress warm, bring and eat pie, and celebrate with us in person! Savory pies are especially welcome this time of year… anyone up to bake famed pie maker Kate McDermott’s Great Big Clam Pie found in our Pie Cookbook? We look forward to seeing you all in person once again! RSVP (https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/utm8Gdj9YSFnay6H2RFjAQ) requested but not required.

Bingo at the Hilltop Tavern
2023-01-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-18 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Hilltop Tavern, 2510 W Sims Way, Port Townsend, WA, 98368
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 January, will be donated to NOSC! Wear some silly hats, mingle with other fish lovers, and soak in the glory of a winning card – all while supporting restoration projects and education programs on the peninsula!

Play this week, next week, or all four weeks!
January 4th – Come celebrate with the volunteers that power us!
January 11th – Join us and our partner organizations!
January 18th – Love fish? Whether it’s eating them, catching them, or just watching them, join us to celebrate this amazing aquatic creature!
January 25th – Celebrate the collaboration between farms and fish to close out the month of bingo!
RSVP on Facebook

January Volunteer Planting Weekend: Caldero
2023-01-28 10:00 - 15:00 | Dungeness River: Caldero Site
Saturday & Sunday 10am-3pm
Sign up HERE!
We have several thousand plants to get into the ground and we’ll need your help! If you would like an up-close-and-personal view of the site, we’d love to have you join us at a planting event. We currently have two weekend events scheduled (both Saturday and Sunday). The first is January 28-29 and the second will occur on February 18-19. If those dates don’t work for you, check our website or social media in the coming weeks for more planting events in early Spring!

The new side channel of the Dungeness River on the left. To the right is the riparian area where 11,000+ native trees and shrubs need to be planted this year as the next step in the restoration project. Photo by NOSC staff.

This past summer, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe approached the Salmon Coalition to assist in revegetating the site of a newly constructed side channel on the Dungeness River a short distance upstream of Highway 101. The site was acquired by the Tribe in 2017 and is named Caldero after the former landowner. The Caldero side channel project creates nearly 1,000 feet of off-channel habitat for both spawning adult salmon and rearing juveniles.
Side channels such as the one at Caldero are critical refuges for salmon during flood events. This is particularly the case for juveniles, who can be easily overcome by heavy flows. Off-channel habitat can also be important spawning areas for returning adults. In fact, on a recent visit to the project site, Salmon Coalition staff members observed several adult coho salmon utilizing the new channel!

January Volunteer Planting Weekend: Caldero
2023-01-29 10:00 - 15:00

Stage 8 Restoration: The How's and Why's of NOSC's Upcoming River Restoration Work
2023-01-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Fort Warden Chapel, Fort Worden Way, Port Townsend, Washington, 98368
Sunday, January 29, 2023
3 p.m.
Fort Worden Chapel
To keep this series accessible to all, regardless of the ability to pay, there is no set charge for the event; however, donations are always welcomed and appreciated. Assisted Listening Devices available.
The program will showcase upcoming river restoration work on the Olympic Peninsula. The solutions to repairing these reaches will serve as a jumping off point to begin to explore stream evolution, just what happened to the reaches, why they evolved to look the way they do now, and how they can be restored to some of their previous glory to the benefit of fish, wildlife and people.

Presented by Kevin Long
Project Manager,
North Olympic Salmon Coalition
Kevin has been working in the field of biology since graduating from Oregon State in 1993. Before coming to NOSC in 2002 Kevin worked on various biological studies on everything from legless lizards to bald eagles (legged). Kevin is responsible for project development, permitting, implementation, and contracting required to implement NOSC’s large scale salmon habitat restoration projects. He thinks of himself as an interpreter between the ecosystems we are restoring and the stakeholders, funders, designers, regulatory agencies, and construction contractors involved in getting restoration projects on the ground. An avid SUP surfer, forager, and backpacker, Kevin is most at home in the woods, on the water, or in his expansive garden.
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s lecture series, The Future of Oceans, draws on the commitment of professional researchers and educators across all academic spectrums to help define and inspire the health of our oceans. Find out more about the lecture series HERE.

February Volunteer Planting Weekend: Caldero
2023-02-18 10:00 - 14:00, 2023-02-19 10:00 - 14:00
Saturday & Sunday 10am-2pm
Sign up HERE!
We have several thousand plants to get into the ground and we’ll need your help! If you would like an up-close-and-personal view of the site, we’d love to have you join us at a planting event. Thanks to our January volunteers and stalwart Washington Conservation Corps Crew we are about 25% of the way to our goal of planting nearly 12,000 native trees and shrubs. Our next planting weekend is February 18-19. If those dates don’t work for you, check our website or social media in the coming weeks for more planting events in early Spring!

The new side channel of the Dungeness River on the left. To the right is the riparian area where 11,000+ native trees and shrubs need to be planted this year as the next step in the restoration project. Photo by NOSC staff.

This past summer, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe approached the Salmon Coalition to assist in revegetating the site of a newly constructed side channel on the Dungeness River a short distance upstream of Highway 101. The site was acquired by the Tribe in 2017 and is named Caldero after the former landowner. The Caldero side channel project creates nearly 1,000 feet of off-channel habitat for both spawning adult salmon and rearing juveniles.
Side channels such as the one at Caldero are critical refuges for salmon during flood events. This is particularly the case for juveniles, who can be easily overcome by heavy flows. Off-channel habitat can also be important spawning areas for returning adults. In fact, on a recent visit to the project site, Salmon Coalition staff members observed several adult coho salmon utilizing the new channel!

Header photo by Charles Espey.

March Volunteer Planting Weekend: Caldero
2023-03-04 10:00 - 14:00
Saturday & Sunday 10am-2pm
Sign up HERE!
We have several thousand plants to get into the ground and we’ll need your help! If you would like an up-close-and-personal view of the site, we’d love to have you join us at a planting event. Thanks to our January volunteers and stalwart Washington Conservation Corps Crew we are about 25% of the way to our goal of planting nearly 12,000 native trees and shrubs. Our next planting weekend is March 4th & 5th.

Stewardship Coordinator, Nate Roberts, distributes native shrubs and trees to volunteers at a January volunteer event to revegetate the recently completed Caldero side channel. Photo by Charles Espey.

This past summer, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe approached the Salmon Coalition to assist in revegetating the site of a newly constructed side channel on the Dungeness River a short distance upstream of Highway 101. The site was acquired by the Tribe in 2017 and is named Caldero after the former landowner. The Caldero side channel project creates nearly 1,000 feet of off-channel habitat for both spawning adult salmon and rearing juveniles.
Side channels such as the one at Caldero are critical refuges for salmon during flood events. This is particularly the case for juveniles, who can be easily overcome by heavy flows. Off-channel habitat can also be important spawning areas for returning adults. In fact, on a recent visit to the project site, Salmon Coalition staff members observed several adult coho salmon utilizing the new channel!

March Volunteer Planting: Caldero
2023-03-05 10:00 - 14:00

Education Volunteer Opportunity: Real Learning Real Work Field Trip
2023-03-14 09:00 - 14:00, 2023-03-15 09:00 - 14:00
7th-8th Grade Real Learning Real Work – Planting Project Implementation

Students will be executing the planting plans that they have spent this winter developing in the classroom after conducting a site assessment last fall. Volunteers will help groups of 4-6 students follow their planting plans on their restoration plot. This involves helping students follow their plans and getting your hands dirty planting with them! Sequim, Chimacum, and Clallam will also be doing some site maintenance that may include invasive species removal, installing protective blue tubing, and mulching. Students will also talk to career professionals in field ranging from restoration to ecology to fisheries.
A NOSC volunteer helps students assess their restoration plot. Photo by Charles Espey.
March 14th & 15th – Serenity Lane along Dungeness River
March 21st & 24th – WDFW Salmon Creek Site in Discovery Bay
April 13th – Pysht River Conservation Area
Tentative timing of these field trips is from 9am-2pm.
Sign up HERE
