Spring 2024
Schooling on salmon
“Salmon docents” in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula provide education about the signature fish of the state. » More ...
Environmental education
Spring 2024
Kitsap County Extension water stewardship programs
Helping people appreciate the beauty and ecological value of beaches, streams, and salmon runs is part of Washington State University’s Kitsap County Extension Program.
Each year, local residents train as beach naturalists, stream stewards, or salmon docents. Nearly 100 people completed one of the trainings in 2022. Volunteers donated more than 3,500 hours for education, stewardship, and community science in Kitsap County during the year, including time donated from past trainees who remain active volunteers.
The training empowers people to take action and become stewards of their local environment, says Anna McClelland, interim water stewardship coordinator for Kitsap Extension.
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Summer 2020
Consider the butterfly
Washington State University alumnus Krist Novoselić embraces rural life and the natural world through music and community connections. » More ...
Summer 2020
A natural understanding
What we don’t know is immense. Natural history can be a profound catalyst for understanding. » More ...
Summer 2020
Mount St. Helens: The aftermath and lessons learned
The sky was falling. And Richard “Dick” Mack gathered a group of graduate students to help collect it. In the first few days after Mount St. Helens erupted—sending some 540 million tons of ash over an area of 22,000 square miles—the WSU ecology professor was already thinking of its potential research value.
Mack‚ now a professor emeritus in WSU’s School of Biological Sciences, spent the summer of 1980 doing field work between Pullman and Vantage, studying the effects of the ash on vegetation—particularly native plants, such as certain willows and grasses. For about five years or so after that, he and … » More …
Summer 2019
Finding home
The Summer 2019 issue of Washington State Magazine examines the social role of public libraries, an environmental field station that highlights western Washington, health-care outreach to homeless people and their pets, and much more. » More ...
Summer 2019
A point of reference
The Washington State University environmental research station at Meyer's Point on Puget Sound lends insight into the local ecology, history, archaeology, and shellfish farming, while providing environmental education opportunities. » More ...
Summer 2019
Gallery: Meyer’s Point
Washington State University’s Meyer’s Point Environmental Field Station on south Puget Sound connects to the environment, history, and education of the region.
Photographer Zach Mazur ’06 captured images of this beautiful place that provides a place of research and education.
Spring 2008
A school in the woods
Many of the children who visit IslandWood have never been to the woods. Some are afraid to try new things, to walk in the woods at night, to touch a slug or pull apart a wild mushroom. Now, they're as much a part of the place as the wildlife. » More ...