Volunteer Voices

Volunteers are talking about what brings them to Stillwaters... and about what makes them stay.
The culminating gift of their musings was presented to Naomi & Joleen in the form of a small film at the 20th Annual Dinner & Auction on November 3rd. A downloadable version of the film is available to view and to share here. 



​In this time of great division, Stillwaters connects us to the ecosystem and to one another. 

With #GI❤️INGTUESDAY you join us at the table.



​Your #GI❤️INGTUESDAY pledge can keep our modest lab in working order, and help our citizen scientists and interns moving ever forward with stream, estuary, vegetation, sediment, and wildlife surveys & studies.


If you're looking for a place where you can volunteer on your terms - where you can decide for yourself whether to get your hands dirty or not - this might be the place. Office, building projects, stream, estuary, plants, crabs... The people are pretty cool, too. 






Long-time volunteers Laurie and Shari on the retirement of our Founders, Joleen & Naomi.

The same pivotal year that the Salmon Recovery Act passed in Washington State, Stillwaters Enviornmental Center was established. Twenty years later, two impressive gateways celebrate Naomi & Joleen's original mission, and stand to remind us of the post-construction monitoring we must do, and the bridges our data will provide to culvert removal teams throughout the region with the unfunded mandate to restore salmon habitat.
​​Now as they celebrate twenty powerful years and wish a very happy retirement to our Founders, those volunteers who have been a part of Stillwaters long enough to watch it grow, gain focus, and diversify - and become even more critical to our region in the face of climate change - meet to share a little about the path, and where they'd like to see it go in the next 20 years.
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