4 Join the Puget Creek Restoration Society Name:___________________________________________________________________________ Address:_________________________________________________________________________ City:____________________________ State:______________ Zip:_________________________ Phone:__________________________ E-mail:__________________________________________ Membership Dues (check one) Donation (annual support) ____ Business - $50/year ____ Mad Scientist - $250/year ____ Family - $30/year ____ Naturalist - $100/year ____ Individual - $20/year ____ Steward - $75/year ____ Work nine or more volunteer hours ____ Friend - $50/year ____ Other ____ Other (ours & your dreams) Which of the following types of activities are you interested in? (please check all that apply) ____ Office work ____ Research ____ Restoration activities ____ Education/Outreach ____ Legislative issues ____ Salmon enhancement projects Note: The PCRS is a 501c(3) organization and your dues are tax deductible. 702 Broadway Suite 101 - Tacoma, WA 98402 253.555.1234 www.pugetcreek.org e: [email protected]Does the SYTI Program Interest You? Are you in school and/or wanting to gain real world job experience in the environmental non-profit field making you more com- petitive in the job market? If so, the SYTI (Student, Youth, Job Training Internship) program might be for you. SYTI is an internship program for qualifying high school, college, tech and university students to gain experience in the environ- mental, non-profit field. If you think SYTI might be right for you, contact Lisa Lawrence by calling (253) 779-8890 or by emailing [email protected]. Page 4 Summer 2013 1 We want YOUR help! Puget Creek Restoration Work Second Saturday Each month 8 am to 1 pm Call for meeting location Parking is available along Ruston Way as well as the west side of N Alder Way . Walk half of a block North Alder to the grass area at the TPU site that is to the left of a gravel area. Look for the PCRS banner. Refreshments, rubber boots, and gloves provided. Dress for changing weather conditions and wear clothes you can get dirty. Or, schedule your group This spring, students from four 4 th and 5 th grade classes from area schools, their teachers, and parent chaperones attended PCRS’ Watershed Adventures program. Watershed Adventures is a FREE, science based program for 4th and 5th grade students in the Tacoma (and surrounding) school districts. Working in conjunction with STEM education curriculum and Washington State Outdoor Education curriculum requirements, Watershed Adventures provides hands on environmental science education in a field setting as an adjunct to students’ classroom science curriculum. Students apply what they learn in the classroom by using real scientific practices and equipment. They devise a question and/or develop a hypothesis about the environment and then set out to answer the question or prove/disprove the hypothesis. Students learn about gathering baseline data as a first step in seeking solutions to environmental challenges and concerns. In addition to stream and habitat assessment and restoration, they learn what they, their families and communities can do to help reduce the effects of non-point source pollution. Using scientific equipment and protocol they engage in water quality testing for: temperature, dissolved oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, fecal coliform bacteria, bio chemical oxygen demand, turbidity and pH. They learn the causes and importance of these values. They learn to assess stream/salmon habitat and the importance of balance in the ecosystem by identifying native plants and trees as well as non-native invasive species and actively engage in restoration work to eradicate non-native invasive species and to plant native species. They also learn how manipulation of the environment can create conditions where a native species such as Reed Canary Grass can become invasive. Most important, the students are active, engaged, and outside. In addition to classroom and field work, there is a digital component to the program which includes a blog, database and online forum which allows our students (like the real scientists they are learning to become) to collaborate, share data, and be part of/create the solutions. This digital component brings their field science into the 21st century and beyond. These students are amazing, and they are the future! -Lisa Lawrence, Watershed Adventures Program Coordinator Summer 2013 Page 1 Our Watershed Adventures Program This Issue Our Watershed Adventures Program Benefits of Woody Debris for Stream Restoration Come Join Us! Bat Monitoring Methods Intern Highlight: Zoe Keskey Want to Be a Docent for Our Watershed Adventures Program? Does the SYTI Program Interest You? Contact Information: 702 Broadway Suite 101 - Tacoma, WA 98402 253.555.1234 www.pugetcreek.org email: [email protected](Students in the WA Program)
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Join the Puget Creek Restoration Society Name:___________________________________________________________________________
Are you in school and/or wanting to gain real world job experience in the environmental non-profit field making you more com-
petitive in the job market?
If so, the SYTI (Student, Youth, Job Training Internship) program might be for you.
SYTI is an internship program for qualifying high school, college, tech and university students to gain experience in the environ-
mental, non-profit field.
If you think SYTI might be right for you, contact Lisa Lawrence by calling (253) 779-8890 or by emailing [email protected].
Page 4 Summer 2013 1
We want YOUR
help!
Puget Creek Restoration Work
Second Saturday Each month
8 am to 1 pm
Call for meeting location
Parking is available along Ruston Way as well as the west side of N Alder Way . Walk half of a block North Alder to the grass area at the TPU site that is to the left of a gravel area. Look for the PCRS banner . Refreshments, rubber boots, and gloves provided. Dress for changing weather conditions and wear clothes you can get dirty.
Or, schedule your group
This spring, students from four 4th
and 5th grade classes from area
schools, their teachers, and parent
chaperones attended PCRS’
Watershed Adventures program.
Watershed Adventures is a FREE,
science based program for 4th and
5th grade students in the Tacoma
(and surrounding) school districts.
Working in conjunction with STEM
education curriculum and
Washington State Outdoor Education
curriculum requirements, Watershed
Adventures provides hands on
environmental science education in a
field setting as an adjunct to students’
classroom science curriculum.
Students apply what they learn in the
classroom by using real scientific
practices and equipment.
They devise a question and/or develop a
hypothesis about the environment and
then set out to answer the question or
prove/disprove the hypothesis.
Students learn about gathering baseline
data as a first step in seeking solutions to
environmental challenges and
concerns. In addition to stream and
habitat assessment and restoration, they
learn what they, their families and
communities can do to help reduce the
effects of non-point source pollution.
Using scientific equipment and protocol
they engage in water quality testing for:
temperature, dissolved oxygen,
phosphate, nitrate, fecal coliform
bacteria, bio chemical oxygen demand,
turbidity and pH. They learn the causes
and importance of these values.
They learn to assess stream/salmon
habitat and the importance of balance in
the ecosystem by identifying native
plants and trees as well as non-native
invasive species and actively engage in
restoration work to eradicate non-native
invasive species and to plant native
species. They also learn how
manipulation of the environment can
create conditions where a native species
such as Reed Canary Grass can become
invasive.
Most important, the students are active,
engaged, and outside.
In addition to classroom and field work,
there is a digital component to the
program which includes a blog, database
and online forum which allows our
students (like the real scientists they are
learning to become) to collaborate, share
data, and be part of/create the solutions.
This digital component brings their field
science into the 21st century and beyond.
These students are amazing, and they
are the future!
-Lisa Lawrence, Watershed Adventures
Program Coordinator
Summer 2013 Page 1
Our Watershed Adventures Program
This Issue
Our Watershed Adventures Program
Benefits of Woody Debris for Stream Restoration
Come Join Us!
Bat Monitoring Methods
Intern Highlight: Zoe Keskey
Want to Be a Docent for Our Watershed Adventures Program?
Does the SYTI Program Interest You? Contact Information: