Jardinería con un Propósito
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La presentación será en Español. Aprende sobre las últimas técnicas de jardinería para ahorrar tiempo, dinero y el medioambiente. ¡Muchas gracias a Racquel Vasquez por traducir durante la presentación!
Read MoreRestoring Habitat, Teaching New Generation at Arlington Christian School
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“We’re so dependent on the food chain, how can we become more independent? How can we harken back to yesteryears?” Nuss asked. “[This project] is a great educational experience for our students who live in our techy, X-Box age.”
Read MorePuget Sound Starts at My School
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Several schools recently finished up their participation in a National Fish and Wildlife funded grant, Puget Sound Starts at My School. This program involved 658 students in the planning, design, and installation of stormwater projects on school campuses. In total, the projects completed through this grant will divert and filter an estimated 435,769 gallons of stormwater every year!
Read MoreHighlights from Stillaguamish Festival of the River and Pow Wow
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Highlights from the 28th annual Festival of the River and Pow Wow held in Arlington, WA.
Read More3 Crew Sighting at Riparian Planting near Arlington
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Location: West of Arlington
Activity: Plant a 6.5-acre riparian buffer. The stream on the property is a tributary to Pilchuck Creek and has been a documented spawning stream for Coho. A new channel was dug this past summer to increase salmon survival as they migrate upstream, and a buffer planting is typically done to keep water temperature low and dissolved oxygen levels high.
Date: Thursday, February 23
Of Note: This was a rare 3-crew sighting! While this planting has been an ongoing project for the last several months; on Thursday, our WCC crew got some help from the City of Arlington's WCC crew* and our new Veterans Conservation Corps (VCC) crew. The VCC crew is a brand new crew of U.S. military veterans that we created in partnership with the Veterans Conservation Corps. This crew, of 4 veterans, has broad backgrounds covering several decades of military service. Stay tuned for more information and features with this crew- they will primarily focus on executing the construction of rain gardens and other stormwater related projects.
* Normally contracted with the City of Arlington as part of an agreement with the City and the Washington Department of Natural Resources to help cross-trained WCC crew members.
Arlington Students Harness the Rain
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Students at Arlington and Weston High School recently completed rain catchment projects at their schools. Combined, both projects have the capacity to collect and store 1,430 gallons of water!
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