NSEA Happenings and News:
SALMON AT THE BAY DATES RELEASED!
This year's Salmon at the Bay event will kick off on June 16th with a lunch from 11:30pm to 2:00pm and wrap up on August 3rd from 5:30pm to 8:00pm with a salmon dinner! Make sure to join us for this great celebration at Boundary Bay including live music by Tobias Peck. Local photography will be on display from mid-June through the first of August, so be sure to check out artsy snapshots of our community hard at work for salmon recovery!
OUTDOOR SUMMER INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY NSEA is now accepting applications for the summer River Stewards program. This program is a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and NSEA. Why not spend your summer in Glacier, Wash., encouraging salmon stewardship? This internship is a great way to provide outreach, give campfire talks and river raft talks, and lead interpretive stream walks while spending time in the great outdoors. For information click here or to submit a resume, please contact Program Coordinator Annitra Ferderer at aferderer@n-sea.org.
FLOW MONITORING INTERNSHIP POSITION Looking for an internship? Click here for more information regarding this long term stream flow monitoring internship!
NSEA HOSTS SALMON TALK AT BIRCH BAY
Maggie Long, NSEA's education coordinator recently held a salmon talk at Birch Bay State Park. The talk focused on general salmon science with an emphasis on the Terrell Creek watershed. If you would like to attend one of these educational opportunities, there will be two more salmon talks. The first will take place on June 8th and 9th and the final talk will take place on July 6th and 7th at the Birch Bay Wildlife Theater. Talks will start on Friday evening at 6:30pm and Saturday morning at 10am. These events are open to the community. For more information email info@n-sea.org.
MRC WORKSHOP FOR COASTAL LANDOWNERS
The MRC is hosting a workshop aimed at coastal landowners on Saturday, June 9 from 9:00 am - 1:30 pm at the Birch Bay Community Bible Church, 4460 Bay Rd., Birch Bay. The workshop is free and open to the public. Topics to be covered include proper bluff management, coastal processes, using native vegetation to increase stability, shoreline permitting, and tools/resources available for landowners. There will be a field component to the workshop at Pt. Whitehorn which will be led by coastal processes expert Jim Johanneson. Jim will identify examples of, or opportunities for, proper bluff management. While the workshop is tailored to landowners living adjacent to a bluff, anybody interested in coastal processes and stewardship is welcome to attend. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. To RSVP or for questions, please email mroberts@co.whatcom.wa.us or call (360)676-6876 ext. 50259.
OCEAN FRONTIERS MOVIE NIGHT!
"The
myth of the boundless ocean is no more. But from the troubled waters now
rises a new wave of hope, of prosperity through preservation, playing out in
communities across the country and intimately captured in the new film by Green
Fire Productions, Ocean Frontiers.
Ocean Frontiers
takes us on an inspiring voyage to seaports and watersheds across the
country—from the busy shipping lanes of Boston Harbor to a small fishing
community in the Pacific Northwest; from America’s coral reefs in the Florida
Keys to the nation’s premier seafood nursery in the Mississippi Delta. Here we
meet an intermingling of unlikely allies, of industrial shippers and whale
biologists, pig farmers and wetland ecologists, sport and commercial fishermen,
reef snorkelers and many more, all of them embarking on a new course of
cooperation, in defense of the seas that sustain us. This film brings a
new way of thinking, a new way of living, in concert with the sea, in
consideration of those yet to come. Co-sponsored by the Whatcom MRC,
NSEA, Re-Sources, Surfrider, Pickford Film Center, and the Cascadia
Weekly."
AMERICAN FORESTS VIDEO ON NSEA PARTNERSHIP
HAPPY VALLEY ELEMENTARY - SALMON RELEASE CEREMONY!
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Happy Valley Elementary kindergartener Adria Cline, 5, holds a coho salmon fingerling she named "Mercury" before releasing it into Connelly Creek in the Connelly Creek Nature Area in Bellingham on Tuesday morning, April 17, 2012. Happy Valley students released chum salmon fry and coho fingerlings in Connelly Creek and Larrabee Elemetary students released salmon fry and fingerlings in Padden Creek. The kids in the schools have been raising the salmon since January with the help of the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association. Adria's wish was for Mercury was to "live a happy, safe, and healthy life."
Fast Facts:
- The Nooksack River Basin has all 5 species of Pacific salmon: Chinook salmon, chum salmon, coho salmon, pink salmon, and sockeye salmon.
- Chinook are the largest Pacific salmon species and can reach up to 135 pounds!
- Coho have the nickname silver salmon because they retain their silvery ocean color longer than any other salmon species after entering fresh water.
- In 2011, 1,807 Whatcom County students spent 3,489 hours participating in NSEA educational programs.
- In 2011, 91 streamside habitat restoration work parties were held. 2,520 volunteers donated 6,584.5 hours to streamside work parties!
Pacific salmon have disappeared from about 40% of their historical breeding ranges in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California over the last century, and many remaining populations are severely depressed in areas where they were formerly abundant.
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