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Tuesday, July 30: Custom Plywood site, 34th St. at Tommy Thompson Trail
8:00 - 11:30AM Early bird set-up at 7:00AM
Lilya Jaeren is the contact: lilya@re-sources.org
Friday, August 2: March's Point site: Boat ramp at end of March's Point
10:45AM - 2:45PM Early bird set-up at 10:15AM
Jason Morgan is the contact: morgan@nwstraitsfoundation.org
Skagit Marine Resources Committee needs lots of help to make Fidalgo Bay Day happen. Remember its the Skagit MRC that supports the Salish Sea Stewards so volunteering at this event is a terrific way to say THANK YOU!
There are lots of jobs including helping with
Parking
Welcome table
Shellfish cooking/serving
Face painting
Youth crafts
Survey taker
For these jobs, please sign up at this link so we can make sure we have enough people:
If you'd like to help with Set-up, just come from 11AM-2PM on Friday, August 23 (day before event)
If you'd like to help with Clean-up, just come around 3PM (day of event)
If you'd like to help with the beach seining event, come to the site around 1PM and look for Pete Haase. He'll put you to work!
Friends of Skagit Beaches Needs You!
Fidalgo Bay Day VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Sat August 24 - Fidalgo Bay Day - Fidalgo Bay Resort
Friends of Skagit Beaches sponsors the popular Discovery Passport activity at Fidalgo Bay Day, which guides families to visit multiple educational stations, answer a question from each, and earn a prize. We need volunteers to help with the Discovery Passport Information Table and Coloring Contest. We need at least three volunteers for each shift as this is a busy place! Volunteers will hand out the passport books to families and kids (of all ages) to visit the designated stations at the event and discover the answers to questions in the passport. You’ll also get the pleasure of awarding prizes to those who complete their passports.
In addition, we have a coloring table where kids can color a picture and enter the contest to have it on the cover of next year’s passport book. It’s a lot of fun and a real highlight of the event.
If you can volunteer, please go to the Signup Genius link below and choose a shift at the “Discovery Passport Information Table” that works for you.
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:
Skagit Conservation District and SCEA seeking Volunteers for summer events:
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.
RSVPs are required for all these events as parking is often limited and Skagit Land Trust needs to know who is coming. To RSVP and for more information about the events, please visit their website at http://www.skagitlandtrust.org/events.aspx.
Fidalgo Bay Carstens Stewardship
August 3rd, 2019
Come join Skagit Land Trust and lend a hand in the conservation and preservation of the Fidalgo Bay shoreline! This small parcel contains a mixed ecosystem of upland trees and shrubs as well as marine foraging and nesting habitats. From the site there is abundant bird watching. You can often see herons, hummingbirds, ducks, sandpipers and other waterfowl. Often otters are seen swimming in Fidalgo Bay from here, as well as deer wandering on the property. The shoreline is used by dungeness crab, pacific herring, and hardshell clams.
At this event we will be pulling ivy from the sloping area down to the water.
Bring: Work and weather appropriate clothing, sturdy trail shoes/boots, and a full water bottle. Skagit Land Trust will provide snacks, water refill, gloves, and tools.
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 30, 2019 we have logged Over 30,000 total hours of service THANK YOU Salish Sea Stewards!
