Congratulations to 2007 graduate Mike Porter for his appointment to the Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee. Since joining the MRC last month, Mike has distributed the WSU Firewise publication to local fire chiefs, helped keep a Port Ludlow car wash "water quality sensitive", and volunteered to staff the MRC booth at the Wooden Boat Festival. Yikes...how does he have time to bike and kayak too?
Also check out the volunteer of the month at the WSU website.
www.jefferson.wsu.edu. See if you can guess before you click the link...Hint: Stonefly.
And...thank you to Penny St. John for the photos of the macro survey.
Salmon Creek Macro survey
Bob Triggs, Jon Eden and Carol Baker joined Alicia Aguirre of NOSC on August 12th for the first Macro Invertebrate Survey of the summer on Salmon Creek. Spending time with Alicia and Bob is like Entomology 200...a great time for flyfishermen!Salmon Creek/Discovery Bay Estuary Project
The site of a former lumber mill is undergoing a radical transformation that will take it back to the clean, lush tidal ssalt marsh that existed 50 years ago. The $2.4 million, 11 acre Salmon Creek Estuary restoration project will remove 22,000 cubic yards of wood waste...Cleaning out the wood waste will remove a persistent source of water pollution that is dangerous to summer chum salmon and other fish, said Rebecca Benjamin, NOSC project manager. (Read more of the PDN article)Mark your calendar!
Pet Waste Project meeting September 3nd at 10 am.
It seemed like such a small problem, but that's the point...the non-point pollution that is.Linda Smith has been completing a survey of the shoreline dog walking sites in Jefferson County. Join us on September 3nd to make decisions on which sites to add dispensers or trash containers, and how to distribute those cute little bookmarks.
RSVP Jadyne 379-5610x230
The summer chum spawning run is just around the corner!
NOSC will be sending out information about summer chum monitoring on Chimacum Creek in the next couple of weeks.Contact Alicia Aguirre at stewardship@nosc.org or 379-8051
Watershed Day is going plastic!
Plastics is the topic for the annual Watershed Day event.~Chemistry of plastics
~Plastics in the Marine Food Web
~Bottled Water: the pros and cons
~Marine Plastic Debris clean up in Jefferson County
Save the date...October 25th.
Check out the work being done at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center http://www.ptmsc.org/science/monitoring/plastics.html
4H partnership at the fair
Thank you to Carol Baker, Noreen Parks, Linda Smith, Jon Eden, Burt Howells and more than thirty 4H kids for distributing the dog waste bookmarks and crab pot release cord cards. What a successful three days! We reached hundreds of people who listened to the message with bigger ears when it was delivered by a youngster. There is something compelling about a youngster telling you that nearly 3000 pounds of dog waste is produced DAILY in just Jefferson County.
Wanna help but don't want to be outside?HELP! I could really use a hand with office projects.
1. The data base of volunteer contact information needs updating
2. Welcome to your Watershed distribution established.
3. Folders for Watershed Day created.
4. Filing of archive information on education and stewardship projects.
Long hours, no pay, no benefits, great company - 379-5610x230.
WSU FARM TOUR features oyster farm
For the first time, the WSU annual Farm Tour includes a shellfish farm. Enjoy some agricultural history Sunday, September 21st. It's free!Speaking of oysters
KUOW aired a program on our native oyster.
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=15612
And food and water quality:
Washington Toxics Coalition has produces a wallet-sized card designed to help shoppers make safer food choices. http://www.watoxics.org/sustainable-agriculture/pesticide-guide
Jefferson Land Trust picnic
On August 15th, the Jefferson Land Trust annual picnic was a celebration of the conservation work done on Snow-Salmon Creek, and the successful conservation of acres and acres of habitat, open space and working lands in the Uncas Valley and Discovery Bay watershed. Your work was deeply appreciated.
Four Water Beach Watchers who also belong to the Jefferson Land Trust, Jean Erreca, Linda Brewster, Burt Howells, Carol Baker and Steve Habersetzer attended the picnic in the lone stand of old growth left in Uncas Valley, and listened to the history of the chum returning to Salmon Creek from Al Latham and Tom Jay. Learn more at http://www.saveland.org/projects/current/
WSU Water Beach Watchers...volunteers committed to protecting Puget Sound througnh Education, Research and Stewardship