by Bianca Perla | Feb 7, 2022
Vashon Nature Center is facilitating a Beach Naturalist Certification for a portion of the Marine Science C.T. E. class at Vashon High School. Vashon Nature Center works throughout the Vashon Island School District to deliver hands-on science education and community...
by Kathryn True | Sep 23, 2020 | blog
This week, Vashon Nature Center is launching a new project called Everyone Counts! —a community-building activity and community science project. The free 12-week course includes a weekly prompt for participants to ground themselves in a single “nature sit-spot,” where...
by Kathryn True | Jul 22, 2019 | blog
Vashon Nature Center (VNC) conducts a variety of community science projects around the island and islanders of all ages volunteer to gather data that contribute to our larger body of scientific knowledge about island plants and animals. VNC chooses projects that have...
by Kathryn True | Oct 15, 2018 | blog
Recent news of ailing orcas is stirring a sense of urgency around the health of our favorite whales and underscores their reliance on thriving salmon populations, which depend on the smaller and aptly named forage fish, like surf smelt and sand lance. For the past...
by Bianca Perla | May 19, 2017 | blog, Wildlife Sightings
by: Bianca Perla, featured photo above by Kelly Keenan. Have you ever touched whale skin? It’s slippery and firm like the smooth skin of a wet apple. Have you had the chance to stand and look down into a whale’s gaping mouth? The lines of stiff baleen fray open to...
