Education and Volunteer Programs
Education Programs
This annual spring series of 8-10 sessions (evening workshops and Saturday field trips) focus on ways to make your home a place of beauty and function that benefits humans, animals, watersheds, and the environment. Sessions will include Healthy Garden Practices, Building Healthy Soils, Managing Invasive Plants, Gardening for Wildlife, Stormwater Management, and more.
Stormwater Education
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Workshops:
Stormwater Management
Learn about stormwater management techniques and how to implement them.
Stormwater Facilities Maintenance
Learn about stormwater facilities maintenance and operations.ā āā
This annual fall series of 8-10 sessions (evening workshops and Saturday fieldtrips) cover forest and stream health, riparian and habitat planting and maintenance, climate impacts and solutions, salmon, estuaries, and shellfish resources, and more.
Watershed Modelā
Stormwater Presentationsā
Arbor Dayā
Soil & Water Stewardship Poster Contestā
Youth Conservation Tourā
Envirothon
Check our "Upcoming Events" section for registration information
SCD Volunteer Programs
The Skagit Stream Team is a network of citizens concerned about the health of local streams. They are trained to work in teams to collect water quality data on stream reaches located in our priority watersheds. Each team tests for temperature, fecal coliform, turbidity, depth, and dissolved oxygen and averages around 4-6 hours per month from September into June
The marine Biotoxin Monitoring program assists the WA State Department of Health monitor local recreational shellfish harvesting beaches during the HABs (Harmful Algal Blooms) season.
The volunteer time commitment for this program includes completing the 2-day training, then approximately 4 to 6 hours a month from mid-April through September.
Storm Drain Marking
Join us in protecting our local waterways by organizing a storm drain marking project for neighborhoods in unincorporated Skagit County and the cities of Burlington and Mount Vernon. Colorful markers are now available to be placed on storm drains in an effort to educate the public and reduce pollutants from entering our streams.
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Outreach Events
Assist at outreach tabling events.
Partner Groups' Volunteer Programs
The goals of the monitoring program are to:
1) Engage community members in hands-on monitoring projects to improve their understanding of forest ecosystems.
2) Gain insight into the stressors on forest ecosystems and the implications of climate change for individual species and forest ecosystems.
3) Provide the City of Anacortes forest managers and the ACFL Forest Advisory Board with environmental monitoring summaries to support forest management.
The Salish Sea Stewards is a volunteer program of the Skagit County Marine Resources Committee in partnership with Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Our program offers approximately 40 hours of FREE community science training each year focused on the marine environment. In return, participants commit 40 hours of volunteer service in protecting the marine environment over the course of one year.
SFEG is a nonprofit and non-governmental organization, that was formed in 1990 to involve our communities in habitat restoration and watershed stewardship in order to enhance salmon populations.
Conserving wildlife habitat, agricultural and forest lands, scenic open space, wetlands, and shorelines for the benefit of our community and as a legacy for future generations.
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Skagit Watershed Council is a community partnership for salmon.
By means of collaboration, technical assistance and education, the watershed council seeks to fulfill their mission, which is to understand, protect and restore the productivity of healthy ecosystems in order to support sustainable fisheries.