2019 was a busy year in the Nisqually Watershed, celebrating milestones and looking ahead to critical needs for the future. This summer, we published a comprehensive report on the Nisqually Watershed Stewardship Plan, documenting the environmental, social, and economic health of our watershed. The report makes two things clear. First, […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
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Hello! My name is Maya, and I’m so excited to be working with the Nisqually River Education Project through AmeriCorps this year. Growing up and going to school in the Northwest has provided me so many incredible experiences in connecting with the wild world around me and learning how to […]
For decades, the Nisqually watershed community has served as a role model of cooperative conservation. “Beginning with protecting the river’s mouth from development in the 1970s to coming together in recent years to restore a threatened Chinook stock, the people of the Nisqually watershed have shown how we can work […]
The Daniel J. Evans Nisqually Stewardship Award was created in 2007 by the Nisqually River Council to honor individuals and organizations that have had a significant impact on the Nisqually Watershed. On September 4, 2019, Jim Wilcox will receive the 3rd Nisqually Stewardship Award, recognizing his many decades of stewardship […]
“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place,” Rachel Carson said. Who could disagree? Within a few short minutes on a Puget Sound beach, you may see eagles, shore crabs, herons; walk on barnacles, oyster shells, and slippery seaweed; smell the distinctive scent of low tide and […]
“If you don’t work from your passion your product is sub-standard,” Randi Korn from RK&A, project evaluator for The Wild Center working in upstate New York, told a group of committed environmental educators. In a single room at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters outside of Washington D.C., […]
What brings together 387 students from 28 schools to share water quality data, explore and engage in real-world science, dissect salmon, build birdhouses, and dance to catchy tunes about stream bugs? Student GREEN Congress of course! This year marked the 27th annual Congress, a major event for students from the […]
26 classes around the watershed took part in Winter Water Quality Monitoring this February. After almost a week of snow days, students were more than ready to be out visiting their testing sites. They sampled water from 29 different sites on the Nisqually River and its tributaries, testing for dissolved […]
On February 1, the Nisqually Watershed became the first in Washington State to receive approval from the Department of Ecology for its plan to address the impacts of new permit-exempt wells on streamflows and habitat in the watershed. Permit-exempt wells are used by homes and small developments where community water […]