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Happy Earth Day!
Join our Hour for the Earth on Earth day! Happy Earth Day to all of you. We want to thank all who are part of our Vashon Nature Center community for sharing your wonder for nature with us on our social media groups, in daily life as you participate in community...
Nature at Home 2: Owlcam
“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...
Let’s celebrate Earth Day together with an Hour for the Earth!
April 22nd is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day! And we want to celebrate! Even in this time of social distancing we can join together in community through loving and tending the earth! Since the weather is looking a little iffy for Wednesday the 22nd. IF you'd like...
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
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...
Odonate Fall Fest
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...
Local Wildlife Rescue Runs on Volunteer Power
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...
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...
Howling Survey Part of Multi-Tiered Coyote Research Project
Humans usually rely on their eyes to observe nature, but one night each summer, a small group of islanders set out under cover of darkness to witness the wild in a different way. “At night, our island puts sight to sleep and awakens a symphony of sound—owl calls, bat...
Header Photo: Bianca Perla