by Kathryn True | Sep 26, 2018 | blog
As I drove over the West Seattle Bridge last week, Mt. Rainier wore a bank of clouds like a mourning cloak. I had just learned that particulates from car tires washing into streams are likely responsible for mysterious Coho salmon die-offs around the Sound. As my...
by Bianca Perla | Aug 6, 2018 | blog
By Kathryn True With its state nonprofit status completed, Vashon Nature Center is excited to welcome its first board of directors (national 501 c3 status is expected by October 2018). The board, VNC staff, and their families celebrated this milestone last month with...
by Kathryn True | Jul 30, 2018 | blog, Wildlife Sightings
This guide, developed in collaboration with island farmers and wildlife managers, is one resource available to download free from our website (see link below). We’ve received four reports of mountain lion sightings since early summer, but we have not been able...
by Bianca Perla | May 31, 2018 | blog
By Kathryn True “This is your job?” a high school biology student asked incredulously, knee-deep in Shinglemill Creek, as she helped Maria Metler catalog juvenile salmonids. The awe and admiration she heard in the question made Metler smile, who as Vashon Nature...
by Kathryn True | Mar 31, 2018 | blog
Possibly for the first time in history, islanders from the entire length of the Salish Sea met to make conservation connections and discuss ways to champion biodiversity. The Vashon Nature Center crew loaded into the VNC Science Adventure Lab (AKA: Bianca’s VW van)...
by Bianca Perla | Dec 16, 2017 | blog
The weather is getting frightful, but citizen science remains delightful! Vashon Nature Center volunteers are contributing to some amazing projects. See below for a short photo summary of winter activities so far: VNC Salmonwatchers: November brought the first photo...
