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 | 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 | Mar 30, 2017 | blog
by: Kathryn True On several cold, wet nights this winter, while the rest of us cozied up by the fire, a group of intrepid scientists and volunteers visited local beaches to pan for gold—fish gold to be exact. They carefully measured out predetermined beach sections,...
by Bianca Perla | Feb 18, 2016 | blog
Above: VHS students help Vashon Nature Center scientists Bianca Perla and Jeff Adams survey Raab’s lagoon for sea stars last spring. For results see end of article. by: Adria Magrath A few years ago, a devastating disease swept through areas of the west coast,...
by Bianca Perla | Aug 1, 2014 | blog
Bioblitz 2014 July 12-13 Christensen Creek Watershed Even on this small island, each of our Bioblitz events has been unique both in terms of species composition and overall feel. At Neill Point in 2012, everything was new, even rather ordinary things hadn’t been...
