by Bianca Perla | Apr 15, 2020 | blog
“An owl is mostly air.” Ursula K. Le Guin, poet Nature at Home is a series of blog posts on Vashon Nature Center programs and activities. With each post we provide further learning opportunities and community science projects or actions you can do from home. You can...
by Bianca Perla | Mar 18, 2020 | blog
I open my inbox to a flood of emails about COVID-19. Helpful information spills out towards me and I am grateful for it: 50 things to do with kids, best movies to watch during quarantine, 20 arts and crafts projects, 10 meals to make with your hoard of groceries, best...
by Kathryn True | Oct 5, 2019 | blog
I became fascinated by dragonflies by accident. I was swimming in a lake in Canada and the price due for the glory of floating weightless under an open sky was navigating the reeds along the water’s edge afterward. There is something singularly unpleasant about the...
by Kathryn True | Sep 19, 2019 | blog
I opened the box very slowly as I’d been instructed, mindful of the talons and beak within. As I loosened the last tab and opened the lid, I saw the bird for the first time. It struck me that the hawk was not much bigger than the robins and other passerines she preys...
by Kathryn True | Jul 22, 2019 | blog
Vashon Nature Center (VNC) conducts a variety of community science projects around the island and islanders of all ages volunteer to gather data that contribute to our larger body of scientific knowledge about island plants and animals. VNC chooses projects that have...
