HCSEG's Classroom Outreach

HCSEG staff Renee Rose, Julie Easton, Mendy Tarwater-Harlow and many dedicated volunteers visit K-12 schools throughout the Hood Canal Watershed during the school year. The purpose of this education outreach is to deliver project based learning lessons on salmon education and water quality.                                          

Our qualified staff present curriculum that encompasses a holistic perspective of Wild Salmon and their ecosystem using EALR's (Washington State's Essential Academic Learning Requirements) in content areas such as science, culture, social studies, history, art, P.E. and other exploratory hands-on activities. 

Students come away with an understanding of the Wild Salmon cycle, its value to society and the ecosystems it is associated with.                                             

This outreach is provided by the HCSEG to Hood Canal watershed area school districts to help provide better insight to salmon ecosystems and the ecological interconnectedness of their watershed.  It also teaches the students how they can become watershed stewards to help protect Wild Salmon and their habitat.

Salmon education in the classroom is available for groups K-12 for those interested.  Classroom presentations are free, but are limited on a first come first serve basis. 

Please contact the HCSEG administrative staff for details  at (360) 275-3575.

Boys and Girls Club Involved with Habitat Restoration Get an 'A' 

During the summer, the North Mason Boys and Girls Club got involved with habitat restoration participating in a bank stabilization project.  During the heavy rain season of 2003,  the Union River reached unusually high levels causing some property owners immense property damage and erosion control problems.  With partners from the Mason  Conservation District, the HCSEG helped to organize some volunteer efforts. The project objective was to secure the stability of the river bank to help minimize excessive sediment loads in the associated salmon spawning, rearing and migration grounds.  The students who participated in this effort worked hard binding and driving stakes that they later  attached large woody debris to support the bank.  The project was a huge success, and so far, the bank has been successfully stabilized.

HCSEG welcomes opportunities to involve youth organizations in our projects.  Youth involvement in restoration activities builds stewardship values which last a lifetime.  Contact us or your local RFEG to get youth organizations in your community proactively involved in Wild Salmon recovery!