Nature at Home 1: Salmon release

Nature at Home 1: Salmon release

This is a first in a short series of blog posts from Vashon Nature Center that highlights work we are doing this spring and shares related at home activities you can do. Enjoy! Shortly after the schools closed due to COVID-19, Vashon Nature Center was called by...
Back to your senses, nature and the art of doing less

Back to your senses, nature and the art of doing less

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...
Summer 2019: thank you community science volunteers!

Summer 2019: thank you community science volunteers!

By: Bianca Perla “Is it not possible that a place could have huge affection for those who dwell there? Perhaps your place loves having you there. It misses you when you are away and in its secret way rejoices when you return. Could it be possible that a landscape...
New partnership lands VNC an artistic home base

New partnership lands VNC an artistic home base

By Kathryn True Since our first BioBlitz in 2012, Vashon Nature Center has been a virtual nature center—operating out of staff cars, garages, basements and freezers where we store research books, field equipment, teaching materials and coyote scat (for DNA analysis,...