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Solve a Mystery with the StreamTeam!

September 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

What Was the Cause of Death?salmon-indian_web

After volunteers spend time planting trees and making sure the native saplings go into the ground correctly, volunteers are needed to spend a day with the StreamTeam to make sure the trees survive.

Improve your native plant identification skills while learning how to monitor a native tree planting!  StreamTeam members will sleuth their way through a yearling planting to find who is the caper.  Was it deer in the wetland with improper tube placement?  You be the judge!

On Saturday, September 12, 2009 from … [Continue reading...]

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Blazing a Trail at Whipple Creek

September 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Volunteers Needed for Trail Improvement.

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Whipple Creek Park, just West of the Clark County Fairgrounds off 179th Street, is a 300 acre park with miles of trails for hikers and horseback riders and home to many types of wildlife.

Several trails inside Whipple Creek Park were closed August 17 for trail improvement.  Vancouver Clark Parks and Recreation and the Clark County Executive Horse Council, invite you to join them on Saturday September 12 to help rehabilitate the trails in this beautiful park.

All ages are welcome, tools and … [Continue reading...]

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Greening the Salmon Creek Greenway

July 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment

“Bringing Salmon Back to Salmon Creek.”

streamteam1_web“Volunteers of all ages and backgrounds come together to care for the Salmon Creek Greenway.  Over 3,000 native trees have been planted by the StreamTeam Program to protect Salmon Creek along the 3.2 mile trail system.

Photo credit:  StreamTeam volunteer photographer Nancy Hill.

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Sending Out an SOS

July 12, 2009 By 1 Comment

The Stream Team Needs You.streamteam

Help Save Our Salmon.  The Stream Team is having a field maintenance day on July 18 to mow down the invasive reed canary grass.

They are asking for volunteers 18 and over for this event.  Come “join us in our efforts to care for our native trees so that our streams will be healthy enough to support our favorite fish, the salmon.”

To register for this event, contact Lisa Beranek, Stream Team Coordinator, at 992-8585. Once you register for this event you … [Continue reading...]

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Join the StreamTeam

March 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Celebrate Earth Day.

Volunteers are invited to come get dirty with the Salmon Creek StreamTeamstreamteam as they host the 10th Annual Earth Day celebration on April 18, from 8:30 am to 2 pm.  There will be tree planting along Salmon Creek  to improve and protect water quality and help restore salmon habitat.  Lunch and commemorative T-shirts will be provided for volunteers.  Whether you are planting trees or not, bring the family and enjoy an EcoFair, wildlife show, children’s activities and a free four-pack of CFL’s.  According to the StreamTeam website… [Continue reading...]

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Lunch Buddies

November 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Salmon Creek:  Lunch Buddies:  The Lunch Buddy Program pairs a caring adult with an elementary student who needs a positive role model in his/her life.  The program is simple: adult volunteers commit to having lunch with a student once a week.  After lunch there is time to read a book, play a board game, or just talk.  The relationship that develops often makes a profound difference in a child’s life.  If you have questions, please contact Sue Bales at 313-2800 or sue.bales@vansd.org.… [Continue reading...]

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