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Education & Events
Upcoming Events
Simon Acres Farm TourTue, May 05Location provided when registered
Noxious Weeds with Evan EmrickWed, May 13Skagit Valley College, Angst Hall #125
Composting and Garden tourSat, May 30Discovery Gardens
Stormwater Systems Maintenance workshopThu, Jun 04Skagit Port Commissioners Hearing Room
41st Annual Woods Tour
Reserve a spot at the Woods Tour
Date: Friday, June 26, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m
See forestry in action and engage with forestry professionals in the woods of Snohomish County
Adult Education Workshops
Skagit County residents can attend our yearly workshops at no cost. Evening workshops and Saturday fieldtrips will cover forest and stream health, building healthy soils, managing invasive plants, riparian and habitat planting and maintenance, climate impacts and solutions, salmon, estuaries, and shellfish resources, and MORE!
All land on earth is a watershed. Our activities affect our health, the health of our homes, and everything around us. Learn the principles of how to make your home a place that benefits humans, animals, and the environment.
Our Stewardship Workshops are sponsored by the cities of Anacortes, Burlington, Mount Vernon, and Sedro-Woolley, and Skagit County through the Skagit Conservation District.
For more information, please contact Carla Glassman 360-708-2360 or Carla@skagitcd.org
Youth Education
The Skagit Conservation District offers natural resource related presentations to students from K-12.
Where Does Your Water Shed?
Did you know that we each contribute to the biggest source of pollution for the Skagit Watershed? Learn about how our actions impact the health of our rivers, streams, and bays and what citizens like you are doing to help keep them clean for the people and wildlife that depend on them here in the Skagit Valley. More information.
EN ESPANOL
Annual Youth Events
A yearly High school academic competition in environmental/resource topics for grades 9 - 12.
Envirothon is a problem-solving, natural resource competition for high school students. In the field, teams of students are challenged to hone critical thinking skills and work as a team to both answer written questions and conduct hands-on investigation of environmental issues in five categories - Aquatics, Soils & Land Use, Forestry, Wildlife, and Current Environmental Issues. A sixth component integrates all five test categories and requires teams to use an interdisciplinary approach to present an Oral Presentation on the Current Environmental Issues topic.
For information on the Washington State Envirothon, please visit www.waenvirothon.org
For more information on the North American Envirothon Competition, please visit https://envirothon.org/
The Skagit Conservation District’s Natural Resource Conservation Annual Soil & Water Stewardship Poster Contest provides kindergarten through twelfth grade students with an opportunity to share their thoughts about soil, water and related natural resources.
Envirothon
Annual Poster Contest
The Skagit Youth Conservation Tour is designed to provide a fun and educational outdoor experience to local youth and inspire a better understanding of the watershed/human connection.
The tour consists of 6 stations hosted by local natural resource professionals who will guide students through entertaining educational activities focused on conservation of our natural resources. Classes spend 15 minutes at each station for a total of one and a half hours to complete the entire tour. Some of the past year's forest partners include the WA State Department of Natural Resources, Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group, Skagit Land Trust, Skagit County Department of Public Works Master Composter/Recyclers, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Sierra Pacific Industries, North Cascades National Park, and Skagit Conservation District.
The Skagit Conservation District has a limited number of FREE NATIVE SEEDLINGS available for Skagit County educators and their students.
To request trees, call Cindy Pierce
at (360) 899- 8729 or
email cindy@skagitcd.org
Project Highlight
Dairy Lagoon Cover
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A local dairy in Skagit County recently implemented the first lagoon cover in Western Washington. Through funding assistance from the Washington Conservation Commission and the Sustainable Farms and Fields Alternative Manure Management program we were able to help them install an approximately 32,000 square foot lagoon cover which prevents the escape of methane from the lagoon into the atmosphere where it would trap up to 80% more heat in our atmosphere than CO2.
The farm was able to pipe this trapped methane directly into a rigid walled digestor where it can be converted from gas to electricity. The farm estimates an increase in energy production by 1,000,000 KWH annually. This power is sold to PSE to help supply green energy on the Western Washington power grid.
The final benefit of this practice is that it allows flexibility in digestor run time so the farm now has access to a flexible storage space during engine work. This means they will have to flare less often during periods of maintenance, further reducing CO2 and methane emissions.
Contact SCD to discuss solutions to your farm problems. Use the "Assistance Request" button or call 360-428-4313
Our Farm Planners offer free, confidential site visits!
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