SKAGIT MARINE RESOURCES COMMITTEE 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION - JUNE 18
Volunteer Opportunities
Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
Swinomish Clam Surveys
Anacortes School Kids Forage Fish Education - June 14
Skagit Conservation District Events
Swinomish Crab Abundance Monitoring Program
Intertidal Monitoring Schedule
Summer nearshore restoration work parties at Bowman Bay and Cornet Bay
Volunteer training opportunities
COASST Marine Debris training - June 9
Fun & Educational opportunities
Watershed Art & Discovery Day - June 29
Managing Stormwater Facilities Educational Workshop - July 17
Salish Sea Stewards Program needs your help and insights!
The Salish Sea Stewards Program is embarking on an evaluation and future planning process to set the course for the program in the coming years. We need your help and insights to ensure that the results of this process will meet your needs.
Planning workshop – You should have already received an invitation to a program planning workshop to be held
Thursday, June 13 from 9:00AM to 4:00PM
at Padilla Bay Reserve.
Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center urgently needs Animal Transport Volunteers. Our rehab center is on San Juan Island, but more than half of the injured and orphaned wild animals we treat come from Skagit County and northern Whidbey Island, so we rely on our wonderful network of Animal Transport Volunteers to get the animals to us. No ferry travel is required! Our volunteers collect animals from the public, then take them to other volunteers, or to the ferry terminal or airport in Anacortes for transport to Friday Harbor.
These surveys involve a good amount of physical activity. Only volunteers with the ability to walk two miles over uneven or slippery surfaces, bend, kneel and carry a 40 pound bucket will find this enjoyable. Along the way volunteers will dig many holes and bag up any clams they find within those holes.The time requirement for each survey is four to five hours and volunteers are welcome to meet our team at the beaches or catch a ride from our fisheries office in La Conner.
Upcoming survey dates and approximate times are:
June 17 & 18 at Lone Tree on the Swinomish Reservation in La Conner from 10:00am to about 2:15pm on both days
July 3 at Blowers Bluff in Oak Harbor from around 9:30am to 2:30pm
July 16 at Crandall Spit near Anacortes from 9am to around 3pm
August 28 at Maylor Point on the Oak Harbor Navy Base from 8am to noon
If this sounds like a good time to you, please contact Lindy Hunter, Fisheries Technician, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community at:
Help our school kids learn about forage fish!
Contact Pete Haase pgypsy@wavecable.com
Skagit Conservation District and SCEA seeking Volunteers for summer events:
Skagit Watershed Letterbox Trail: Enjoy working with kids? The Skagit Conservation Education Alliance (SCEA) has been working with Bay View 5th Graders to create a letterbox trail at the Padilla Bay Research Reserve for a fun summer/fall family activity. SCEA is seeking volunteers to assist us at the classroom field trip to Padilla Bay Research Reserve on Friday, June 14th from approximately 11:30 am to 1 pm. Volunteers will help lead a group of approx. 5 students to help them find a hiding place for their letterbox and to write the clue. Instructions will be provided:).
Watershed Art and Discovery Day: SCEA is seeking 4 volunteers to assist staff and local artists with youth art activities and also a "greeter" to help with registration for the annual Watershed Art and Discovery Day, scheduled for Saturday, June 29th from 10 am to 2 pm at the Padilla Bay Research Reserve. This is another fun family event that provides opportunities for local youth to play, create, and learn all about estuaries and the wonderful creatures that inhabit our local ecosystems through fun interactive exploration and art! Activities will include: Create your own estuary collage, make wildlife stamps, construct your own recycled jellyfish, create a miniature wildlife habitat village, and more!
Sustainable Samish Garden Tour: The Skagit Conservation District, Chuckanut Transition & Friday Creek Habitat Stewards are seeking volunteers to assist at the annual Sustainable Samish Garden Tour, scheduled for Sunday, July 14th from approximately 10:30 am to 3 pm. Volunteers are stationed at one of the gardens on the tour to help greet visitors and/or assist with parking. Or, if you have special expertise to share related to sustainable gardening/farming, we are also seeking a few educators to host an education table at the gardens as well. We offer a "pre-tour" for staff and volunteers to tour each of the gardens in advance, thus, by volunteering you won't miss out on the tour:).
Kids in Nature: Families Outdoors at Pomona Grange Park: The Skagit Conservation District, Friday Creek Habitat Stewards and numerous partners are seeking volunteers to help out at the Annual Kids in Nature event, scheduled from 11 am to 2 pm on Saturday, August 17th at Pomona Grange Park (adjacent to the Samish Fish Hatchery on the Old Hwy. 99). Volunteers provide staff support at a variety of activities along the trails and streams, assisting at the fairy house station, and more!
Interested volunteers should contact
Kristi Carpenter, Skagit Conservation District
at Kristi@skagitcd.org or call (360) 428-4313
The Swinomish Crab Abundance Monitoring Program (SCAMP)
is in need of 1-2 volunteers at our Anacortes light trap site. The light trap is attached to a dock at Seafarer’s Park and requires volunteers to check the trap every Saturday from now through August.
Please remember to log your volunteer hours in Volgistics - the hours we log help show our funders the amount of work that goes into a project.
As of June 7, 2019 we have logged 28,198.52 total hours of service THANK YOU Salish Sea Stewards!
