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...
by Kathryn True | Nov 21, 2017 | blog
Six years ago, I met Vashon Nature Center’s director Bianca Perla at Vashon Tea Shop. I had read about the center in an article in The Beachcomber and I wanted to learn more. I was looking for a new volunteer venture and as a longtime naturalist, the organization’s...
by Bianca Perla | Sep 18, 2017 | blog, Wildlife Sightings
Over the last few days we had an intrepid team of 10 volunteers join our stream team, rearrange their schedules to beat the oncoming rains, and conduct our 5th annual stream invertebrate survey of Vashon creeks. We finished exactly 1/2 an hour before the fall rains...
by Bianca Perla | Aug 18, 2017 | blog
by Bianca Perla As I left the wilderness and drove back into cell service my phone exploded with texts. The cougar had been killed. Both kids and adults cried at the news, wondering why. Many in our community disagreed about this cougar but most people seemed to...
