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Hands to Work: Learning Center Stewardship Weekend
Colors and Calls: Birding By Ear and Eye Libby Mills
Duwamish River Kayak Excursion
Mike Brondi and Staff Naturalists
1E] ¤ (Sat–Sun) 12 Bellingham area t $165 includes box lunches & van transportation
Cindy Updegrave and Alki Kayak Tours
1E] ¤ (Fri eve–Sun) 15 Learning Center t 2 nights lodging & 6 meals $120 PER PERSON, SHARED OCCUPANCY $40 DISCOUNT FOR TRIPLE OCCUPANCY
During the months following the construction of the Learning Center, dozens of volunteer Plant Stewards helped the Institute hand-plant more than 22,000 native shrubs and trees throughout the campus in an effort to rehabilitate the long-used site. Four years later, those plants are doing better than we ever imagined. This spring, we’re hosting a special gathering to express gratitude to the hands that put all of those vine maples and Oregon grapes in the ground, and offering new stewards the opportunity to form a relationship to this piece of earth by giving back to it. Join Mike, National Park Service staff and Institute naturalists as we tend to our native flora and the habitat surrounding the Learning Center. There will be projects for all abilities and interests, from thinning, weeding and trail maintenance to cataloging projects in the Wild Ginger Library. Your hard work will be rewarded when our talented kitchen crew serves up delicious, locally grown meals and local experts share evening presentations and campfire discussions.
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$80 PREMIUM FOR SINGLE OCCUPANCY
As spring comes to Washington, our location on the Pacific Coast flyway provides a view of feathered migrants arriving on the wave of warmer weather and longer days. Join Libby, who has spent her life observing and recording bird life across the Americas, as she teaches us how to identify different bird languages, including the distinctions between the mating and territorial songs that are so abundant in the spring. Traveling as a group, we’ll tune in to the rich breedingseason display of song and plumage, using our senses to catch glimpses of species arriving to nest in the area as well as those on their way to breeding grounds in the north. We’ll spend one day exploring shorelines looking and listening for shore and water birds and another in the hills searching for forest- and mountain-dwelling bird life of higher ground. Participants are responsible for lodging Saturday night.
1E] (Sat) 6 Seattle t $160 includes box lunch, kayak instruction & equipment Emptying into Elliot Bay south of downtown Seattle, the Duwamish River is like a historical document. Reading it reveals a history of ice sheets, earthquakes, lahars from Mt. Rainier and thousands of years of human occupation. Existing simultaneously as both sacred land and a Superfund site, the river holds tales from the past and promises for the future. Come groundtruth its stories as we explore the river by kayak, talking with members of the Duwamish tribe, examining evidence of the Seattle fault, observing restoration sites and experiencing the waterway from a rarely seen vantage point. Alki Kayak Tours will provide boats and keep us safe on the water while Cindy, a University of Washington ecologist, will be the river’s interpreter on this journey through restoration. 17