Become a Sound Steward!

Sound Stewards are hard working volunteers restoring estuaries and shorelines throughout the Puget Sound region, including the banks of the Duwamish River in Seattle, the shores of Mud Bay in Olympia, and Jetty Island near Everett.

People For Puget Sound provides a thorough training for our Sound Stewards that gives them the ability to effectively monitor, maintain and care for our restoration sites. Volunteers work in teams to steward a People For Puget Sound restoration site of their choice.

What does a Sound Steward do?
In return for the training, stewards pledge to donate a minimum of 40 volunteer hours to People For Puget Sound's Sound Stewardship Program over the course of one year. Hours are mostly spent attending regular work parties, but stewards are also encouraged to be crew leads at our large restoration events, help us out around the office, or find other ways to help us improve the program.

Returning stewards are encouraged to take on leadership roles at their restoration sites by leading a team of newly-trained stewards to ensure site success. This includes coordinating maintenance parties and helping develop yearly stewardship plans.

Why stewardship is important
Monitoring and maintenance plans included in most habitat restoration projects operate on 3- to 5-year time scales. This is inadequate, especially when dealing with highly disturbed areas, which are succeptable to stressors such as vandals, invasive weeds, and other pests.

Our monitoring shows that stewardship actions are needed for longer than 10 years at most of our restoration sites. Empowering citizens as stewards is the key to ensuring long-term restoration site success!

Click Here: Spring 2008 Sound Stewardship Training Schedule

• North Sound (Snohomish) Schedule
• South Sound (Olympia) Schedule
• Central Sound (Seattle) Training is Closed, contact Eliza Ghitis for information.
  

Become a Sound Steward today by contacting at a office nearest you:

    Keeley O'Connell, Mount Vernon, (360) 336-1931

    Eliza Ghitis, Seattle, (206) 382-7007

    Dan Grosboll, Olympia, (360) 754-9177