“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 […]
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“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 […]
I went to school in Montana. If you asked my 10-year-old self what a fry was, I would have answered a tasty form of potato; I wouldn’t have been able to name a single species of Pacific salmon; and I certainly was unaware of their spawn and die life cycle. […]
“How do trees help salmon?” Before getting out in the field with students to plant trees as a habitat restoration activity, I asked this question during classroom presentations. While we think of salmon as purely aquatic species and trees as terrestrial, the relationship between these two demonstrates the deep interconnectedness […]
Hello! My name is Chrissy Webb, and I am so excited to be part of the Nisqually River Education Project. As a new resident of the Nisqually watershed, I’m eager to not only get to know and explore this unique system, but to study it, protect it, celebrate it, and […]
Over the last few weeks, the NREP has had the pleasure of providing the students with opportunity to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to real world experiences in what we like to call service learning! Beforehand, we made classroom visits to inform the students about why healthy riparian zones […]
Linsey Fields is the new Environmental Education Intern for the Nisqually River Education Project for the 2016-2017 school year. Linsey is completing her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Conservation at The Evergreen State College. She is excited to gain hands on experience in the areas of environmental stewardship/protection by working […]
The NREP will bring new climate change related projects into the classroom over the next three school years through its NOAA funded climate literacy project. These projects will help students and teachers increase climate change literacy and highlight focuses on communicating community resilience through taking action. Projects include No Idling […]