April 26-27 Event Report

Post by Dan Grosboll, (360) 754-9177

Our last South Sound Earth Month event, our Mission Creek Pocket Estuary Ivy Pull was a great success.  We had a total of 64 (55 volunteers) people on Saturday and another 56 (54 volunteers) on Sunday.

A big thanks to our staff that helped out over the weekend (Robin C., Doug, Naki, Gabby) and to Troy and Mike for putting together great event posters. 

We had several great partners on this event including the The Nature Conservancy (Carri, Pat, Colleen), South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group (Lance), City of Olympia (Patricia, Lucy, Todd, Matt), and Marshall Middle School (Jennifer, John). 

Our new group of South Sound Stewards was a great help in organizing and leading the events—Sharon, Aleia, Colleen (an honorary Steward!), Dwight (another honorary!), Jessica, Jeff, and Ali. 

The 100 volunteers who gave up their weekend learned a bit about shoreline habitat and made a mighty contribution to its restoration. 

If we include our other events this month, we had 135 volunteers working on the shoreline, 75 people learning about Puget Sound biota at our Pier Peer, and 15 people in our Sound Steward training. 

It is great to watch our South Sound impact grow!