You
can contact us at:
The Adopt-A-Stream Foundation
at the
Northwest Stream Center
600-128th Street SE
Everett, WA 98208-6353
Tel: 425-316-8592
Fax: 425-3381423
Email:
aasf@streamkeeper.org
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Adopt-A-Stream
achieves its mission of teaching people to become
stewards of their watersheds through a variety of
educational programs and publications which fall under
the umbrella name Streamkeeper Academy,
a service
mark of AASF. AASF staff continue to develop programs and
create new educational and outreach opportunities for
young and old, students and professionals alike. Our
staff has conducted events for audiences in Washington,
Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Alaska, as well as
British Columbia, Canada and Bogota, Colombia. We can
travel to your community, too! Continuing education
credit options or clock hours from Washington State
University, can be arranged for educators attending the
Adopt-A-Stream Workshops, Streamkeeper Field Training,
and the Teachers' Watershed Education Workshop outlined
below. Costs for these events vary by location. We will
design a program to suit your needs and budget. Call for
details.
ADULT
PROGRAMMING
Adopt-A-Stream:
5 Steps Workshop
A multi-media
introduction to the ecological, social, and political
aspects of watersheds and the process of adopting a
stream. Participants learn how people and nature shape
watershed systems and how to carry out the five steps of
adopting a stream, which are:
1) Investigate
your watershed
2) Establish a Streamkeeper group
3) Identify short and long term goals
4) Develop an action plan
5) Become a Streamkeeper by carrying out the plan
Examples of
successful stream protection, monitoring, and restoration
activities are provided. The presentation is designed to
encourage learning through audience participation,
questions, and discussion.
Streamkeeper
Field Training
A
“hands-on” training in which participants learn
how to inventory and monitor the physical, biological,
and chemical aspects of streams. Activities include
mapping and surveying riparian and instream habitat,
measuring flow and basic water quality parameters, and
monitoring benthic macroinvertebrates. The training
generally takes place at two sites so participants can
compare healthy and unhealthy streams.
"Streamkeeper" is a registered trademark of
AASF.
Watershed
Education Workshop for Teachers
A
“hands-on” workshop introducing classroom
activities and curricula designed to help teachers
integrate watershed education and stream adoption into
different academic disciplines.
Stream and Wetland Ecology
Basic Training for Land Use Policy Makers,
Developers, Real Estate Agents, Appraisers, Teachers, and
Other Streamside Property Owners and anyone interested in
Stream and Wetland Ecology
Gain insight
into watershed terminology used by the scientific
community. Understand the function and values of
wetlands, how they are defined by agencies, and how to
distnguish between different types of wetland. Discover
how streams function and their relationships to forest,
wetlands, underwater insects, fish, wildlife, and people
and explore the fundamental question of how close you can
build to a stream without affecting salmon. Become
familiar with the latest federal, state, and local
government stream and wetland protection regulations.
Discuss the Endangered Species Act and the effect of the
listing of Pacific Chinook salmon.
YOUTH
PROGRAMMING (Grades K-9)
The Adopt-A-Stream
Foundation also provides educational programs for local
schools (and colleges). To schedule field trips to the
Northwest Stream Center call 425-316-8592 or email us at aasf@streamkeeper.org. Below is a sampling of
courses offered for Youth K-9. These courses can be
modified to fit the needs of students, special interest
groups, or to meet badge requirements for Boy Scouts,
Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, etc.
Come
Back Salmon!
Students
interactively learn about the salmon life cycle, their
incredible journey to their natal streams and what kind
of habitat is critical for spawning and survival.
Students come up with simple solutions to do at home and
at school to help the survival of salmon.
Wetland
Wizards
Explore
four types of wetlands and their functions, and learn
about the soil, plant and water characteristics of each
type through “hands-on” activities. Create a
micro wetland park.
Wetland
Critters / Aquatic Insects
The
Wetland Critter Programs introduce people to wetlands and
the fascinating animals that inhabit them. Central to our
programs is the opportunity to observe up close the
"little critters" such as aquatic insects that
are vital to wetland ecology. Programs include walks
through different types of wetlands, slide shows, and
"adopt-a-critter" activities. Wetland Critter
Programs can also be arranged at least 2 weeks in
advance.
Junior
Streamkeepers
This
"watershed" event begins with training on
stream and wetland ecology terms. Habitat requirements
and life cycle of salmon will be introduced, followed by
a hands-on introduction to the bottom of the fish food
chain -- aquatic insects. Students will role-play as
polluters causing water quality problems and as a team
explore solutions. The class will take a "walk on
the wild side" next to North Creek for an
introduction to native plantidentification and to learn
why native plant buffers are critical to salmon habitat.
Native
Plant Walk and Identification
Join
us for a walk in the woods and natural garden around the
Northwest Stream Center. Our naturalists will teach you
how to identify plants you are likely to encounter in
this area, perhaps even in your own backyard, and they
describe how Native Americans made use of plants for
building materials, food and medicine.
For more
information, please call 425-316-8592 or email us at aasf@streamkeeper.org. To view Streamkeeper
Academy's upcoming classes, click here: Streamkeeper Academy.
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