Website updated October 9, 2021
Volunteers needed for Puget Soundkeepers' cleanup!
Tuesday, October 12th, 4-6 PM
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Puget Soundkeeper, Stillwaters Environmental Center, and Kingston Chamber of Commerce are thrilled to partner for an outdoor, family-friendly event on behalf of our beloved Puget Sound.
Join us for the 10/12 Week of Action cleanup at Mike Wallace Park and help us in preserving and protecting our shared waters. Also, gather at the Kingston Ale House post-cleanup with a complimentary $2 discount to all cleanup participants. Click here to register now! |
UW Intern Isabel Wilson brings new knowledge to Stillwaters
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Isabel wanted to explore Stillwaters’ bird survey data, which has been collected monthly since 2003 by volunteers. It is a complex dataset as the number of sites in the lower Carpenter Creek watershed visited by Stillwaters birders varies seasonally and has changed somewhat over the years. Isabel decided to focus on the two sites that have been surveyed the longest and year around: Appletree Cove from Arness Park and the Kingfisher lobe of the Kingston Estuary (AKA the Slough) on the other side of the South Kingston Road.
Click here to read what we learned |
National Cleanup Day
In honor of National Cleanup Day on September 18th , Stillwaters was out and clearly visible picking up litter along Barber Cutoff Road. The road was surprisingly clean! In May, we collected 13 bags of litter, but our September cleanup only brought in 6 bags from the 1.6 mile stretch of Barber Cutoff Road. If you have a name to suggest for the Stillwaters' beaver, or if you'd like information on the next cleanup event, please email Terry Pereida at terry@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org. |
2nd Adopt-A-Road Cleanup Completed
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Movers & Shakers > Sediment Sampling
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Check out our rockin' sediment shaker!
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Stillwaters' volunteers and staff are busy processing sediment samples collected from either side of the South Kingston Bridge to document the movement of sediment in the estuary system since culvert removals.
Samples are sifted through different sized sieves and particles of different sizes are quantified (e.g., silt, fine sand, cobble, etc.). |
Monitoring Assistant, Hanna Brush
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Volunteers Cindi Nevins and Betsy Cooper.
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Thank you book donors!Because of YOUR donations, Stillwaters volunteers have been busy selling books through our online bookstore. Special thanks to Nancy Dumcum, Sue Michaelis, and Naomi Maasberg for their hours of hard work. Their combined efforts have raised over $5,000 this year, strongly supporting Stillwaters' general operations!
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Just a reminder that you are always welcome to drop off books at the Tree House front porch. And don't forget to pick up a receipt form (on the porch wall) to document your tax donation.
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Meet
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Hanna Brush, monitoring and administrative assistant, joined Stillwaters in August of 2021. Hanna graduated in 2021 from Tufts University, where she double majored in biology and environmental studies. During her time at Tufts, she studied the ecology and nectaring behavior of Puget blue butterflies in southwest Washington’s native short grass prairies. A recent transplant from Portland, Oregon, she is enjoying getting to know life on the water at her home on Miller Bay. Hanna is looking forward to learning about the plants and animals of this unique estuary environment.
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Why donate to Stillwaters?
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We have proudly supported Stillwaters since it was an idea that Naomi and Jolene told us about many years ago. We gladly joined those who were the first board members for this new organization dedicated to environmentalism on a local level. We have given financially to Stillwaters even before it became a registered 501c3 organization. We will continue to do so.
Why? It has done what it promised to do. It has educated anyone who would listen about our fragile environment. It has adopted a stream, and in the process, opened it up to Puget Sound. It has worked to remove the old culverts to create a free-flowing stream, thus joining other like-minded organizations dedicated to saving Puget Sound. It developed a volunteer base of people from the Kingston community to monitor that stream and become an example for other groups who wish to do the same. ~ Joybelle Johnson-Eriks and Paul Eriks |
Volunteer Opportunities at Stillwaters
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Art of Water Contest - Call for submissions
We invite you to collaborate with us in our partnership with Barbara Krystal of the University of Washington, in a project celebrating WATER. Water shapes our world, our imagination, and moves us to create. Following the spirit of community science, THE ART OF WATER PROJECT honors public scholarship and carries that inclusivity into the realm of the arts and humanities.
Exhibits include: Music, Material Art, Photography, Performance, Film, and Written Verse.
We welcome displaying your creative work in the online gallery: theartofwater.global
Click here to submit
For any questions email Barbara Krystal at theartofwater.global@gmail.com or bjk9@uw.edu
We welcome displaying your creative work in the online gallery: theartofwater.global
Click here to submit
For any questions email Barbara Krystal at theartofwater.global@gmail.com or bjk9@uw.edu
Thank you to
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A grant renewal from Conservation, Research and Education Opportunities International (CREOi) supports our research documenting how changes in hydrology since the culvert removals (which restored natural tidal exchange and creek flow to the estuary) are affecting native and invasive plant communities in the salt marsh
on Carpenter Creek.
on Carpenter Creek.
Thank you to
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