Education, Restoration, Celebration for 30 years!
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Check out this beautiful emblem to commemorate 30 years!
As we continue to celebrate, we’re looking for historical photos or videos you have to share. We’ll take hard copies or digital files. Anything you have will be helpful! Please send any images you have to
Libby Pratt,
or contact her if you have physical copies.
Stay tuned for news on the Annual Party to be held in the fall!
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Saturday, March 14
Science & Technology Festival
10:00 - 3:00
Vern Burton Center, Port Angeles
Join us for a
fun-filled day of science and technology exploration
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March 24th
Trivia with North Olympic Land Trust
Barhop Brewing & Artisan Pizza
124 W Railroad Ave, Port Angeles
Tuesday, March 24, 6-8 pm
All ages
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April 28th
Join us for our first ever - Trivia in Chimacum!
Keg & I
1291 Chimacum Rd, Chimacum
Tuesday, April 28th 7-9 pm
21+
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Last month, the Salmon Coalition partnered with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Natural Resources to plant trees and shrubs to reforest 10 acres of land along the Pysht River in Clallam County. We were lucky to have the Washington Conservation Corps crew alongside us as well.
Rain was in the forecast for the 2-day event, but when wasn't it in January? And besides, that has never deterred our hearty spirits. The long drive along Highway 112 to the site was beautiful, remote, and drizzly. Snow from the previous week was still on the ground and the Pysht was already turbid and rushing. When we arrived, it began showering but the WCC crew and the Natural Resources staff jumped right into organizing plants and tools. We quickly started planting, and almost immediately became
a goopy, muddy mess. All the mud just added to the fun! With our efforts combined, we powered through and planted hundreds of plants and looked forward to completing the planting the next day.
Can you guess what it did the second day? It rained. And it poured. By this time, the trunks of red alder on the banks were under a couple feet of water and the trickle of a back channel we walked through the day before was now a full, bulging river. All the rain gear in the world couldn't have kept us dry. But we pushed on and together we planted a diversity of
1,535 native trees and shrubs
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Although we were all drenched and covered from head to toe with mud, we were a shining example of collaborative restoration. We embraced the downpour and were reminded that challenging or unpredictable situations can lead to unique, memorable adventures in habitat restoration.Thank you Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe for your partnership and thank you to our robust volunteers, Kathe, Richard, and Ben!
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And that's a Bingo wrap!
Thank you to all who came out to January's Bingo at The Hilltop Tavern! We loved seeing new faces, volunteers, and board members. We appreciate your yearly dedication to these evenings of fishy FUN. We won some great prizes (socks, hand warmers, trail mix, and more!) but the real prize was your SUPPORT!
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Symbolyn, Sunfield Board of Trustees President, and Sarah
Zablocki-Axling from Jefferson Land Trust hard at work
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A month in the life of WCC
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Check out this video that Torin B. from the WCC Peninsula Riparian Crew made about their work in December
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Trails, planting prep, and beaver dams, oh my!
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Kilisuit Harbor Restoration Update
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Many heads were turned this month as the sixteen 115-foot concrete bridge girders were delivered by truck and erected onsite. These girders are beams that support the deck. Watching one of these trucks drive down the road with someone steering the semi-tractor up front and another driver steering the trailer from a cabin located under the girder at the rear of the truck was quite remarkable. Short traffic closures allowed the beams to be picked up by two cranes right off the trucks which sat on the detour travel lane.The construction contractor remarked how patient and supportive waiting motorists were, and that it was extremely rare in his experience to have such demonstrated support from the community. To top it all off, we have some fantastic project fans delivering delicious goodies for the work crews. It’s exciting to be the project sponsors of such a massive and important restoration project that the fish and this community have been awaiting for decades! Thanks to all for your continued support that make positive projects like this possible. Take a drive and check it out!
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The Kilisut Harbor Restoration Project continues to wend its way towards completion, expected by November 2020. The northern section of the restored channel has been cut to finished grade, which means that sediment has been removed to a desired final elevation. The southern channel is mostly constructed.
Its completion will depend on the opening of a work window to avoid impacting fish (the “fish window”) and good summer daytime low tides so that the channel c
an be connected through to Oak Bay. For the next couple of months the construction contractor will be primarily focused on the construction of the bridge's driving surface (or deck), railings and utility crossing.
(Left photo) Local pilots have been sharing aerial photos of the project site. Here, Monte Reinders caught the cranes in action setting the third out of 16 girders.
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Cranes lifting a girder in preparation to set it into place. Each girder only took about 10 minutes to be unloaded.
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The
construction contractor remarked how patient and supportive waiting motorists were, and that it was extremely rare in his experience to have such demonstrated support from the community.
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Base funding for the RFEG program comes from a grant from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, a portion of state commercial and recreational fishing license fees, and excess egg and carcass sales administered by the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
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Give Us Your Feedback
Questions or Comments? Let us know what you think!
outreach@nosc.org
360.379.8051
www.nosc.org
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