Camano Coming Events

The Fall VET training resumes Thursdays, Sept 12 through Oct 24. VET is Volunteer Education and Training program. It is the premier 13 week 100 hour training program that all Sound Water Stewards take. 

Training starts at 9 am with a lunch break mid-day and a morning or afternoon field trip. We are generally finished by 3 pm. 

Coffee, tea, hot water and snacks will be provided the first half of our day (if we are at Cama Center that day). Please bring your lunch. We invite you to bring your own mug. 

ALL SWS MEMBERS are welcome to attend classes as a refresher course, but field trip participation is on a space available basis. Please RSVP or inquire through the Camano Coordinator.

NOTE: Discovery Pass is required to park at Cama Beach State Park. Tickets will be issued to people parking without a pass. If you don't have one, be sure to pick up a temporary purple pass signifying you are a local volunteer. The volunteer pass is only good for Camano's two state parks.

Presentations: 

Sep 12 - Land Reclamation and Estuary Restoration: learn about Leque Island and zi-sa-ba (local) projects and field trip to two sites on Fir Island. Presenters include Loren Brokaw and Belinda Rotton of WDFW.

Sep 19 - Storm Water Management and Feeder Bluffs with Derek Hann. Afternoon field trip to Camano Transfer station to learn about recycling and waste management with Scott Chase and Jerilyn Ritzman. 

Sep 26 - Salmon Hatchery and Conservation  with Kip Killebrew, Stillaguamish Tribe Hatchery Manager (this training day starts at the Hatchery). Afternoon presentations on Tribal Fishing Rights and recreational crabbing and shrimping. (Hatchery Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 3 - Sea Level Rise with Jay Mouton, Ocean Acidification with Dr. Brooke Love and Forage Fish with Phill Dionne.

Oct 10 - Native American Culture, Hibulb Center (at Tulalip). Island County Hydrology with Doug Kelly, of Island County hydrogeologist. 

Oct 17 - Penn Cove Mussel Tour with Tim Jones. Beavers of the Pacific Northwest with Elyssa Kerr. (Mussel Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 24 - Earthquakes, Faults, Tsunamies with Brian Sherrod. Plastics with Mahmoud Addel-Monem

Sound Water Stewards monthly board meeting will be 9-24-19 on Camano. All SWS members are welcome to attend. At Cama Center, 10:30 to 12:30 in the Forest Room. This is one of two of the board meetings that occur on Camano Island. 

The Fall VET training resumes Thursdays, Sept 12 through Oct 24. VET is Volunteer Education and Training program. It is the premier 13 week 100 hour training program that all Sound Water Stewards take. 

Training starts at 9 am with a lunch break mid-day and a morning or afternoon field trip. We are generally finished by 3 pm. 

Coffee, tea, hot water and snacks will be provided the first half of our day (if we are at Cama Center that day). Please bring your lunch. We invite you to bring your own mug. 

ALL SWS MEMBERS are welcome to attend classes as a refresher course, but field trip participation is on a space available basis. Please RSVP or inquire through the Camano Coordinator.

NOTE: Discovery Pass is required to park at Cama Beach State Park. Tickets will be issued to people parking without a pass. If you don't have one, be sure to pick up a temporary purple pass signifying you are a local volunteer. The volunteer pass is only good for Camano's two state parks.

Presentations: 

Sep 12 - Land Reclamation and Estuary Restoration: learn about Leque Island and zi-sa-ba (local) projects and field trip to two sites on Fir Island. Presenters include Loren Brokaw and Belinda Rotton of WDFW.

Sep 19 - Storm Water Management and Feeder Bluffs with Derek Hann. Afternoon field trip to Camano Transfer station to learn about recycling and waste management with Scott Chase and Jerilyn Ritzman. 

Sep 26 - Salmon Hatchery and Conservation  with Kip Killebrew, Stillaguamish Tribe Hatchery Manager (this training day starts at the Hatchery). Afternoon presentations on Tribal Fishing Rights and recreational crabbing and shrimping. (Hatchery Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 3 - Sea Level Rise with Jay Mouton, Ocean Acidification with Dr. Brooke Love and Forage Fish with Phill Dionne.

Oct 10 - Native American Culture, Hibulb Center (at Tulalip). Island County Hydrology with Doug Kelly, of Island County hydrogeologist. 

Oct 17 - Penn Cove Mussel Tour with Tim Jones. Beavers of the Pacific Northwest with Elyssa Kerr. (Mussel Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 24 - Earthquakes, Faults, Tsunamies with Brian Sherrod. Plastics with Mahmoud Addel-Monem

Free Workshop: Sea Level Rise in Island County

What do local sea level rise projections mean for your property and your community? How can you be preparing for changes that are affecting our shorelines?

You are invited to join specialists from Washington Sea Grant, Island County, and the Island County Marine Resources Committee to learn about impacts of sea level rise, explore local maps, and discuss strategies for planning and adaptation.

We are offering this workshop on Camano and Whidbey Islands:

Camano Workshop
When: Saturday, September 28, 9:00am-12:00pm
Where: Vista Madrona Fire Station (273 N. West Camano Dr, Camano)

Whidbey Workshop
When: Saturday, September 28, 2:30pm-5:30pm
Where: Coupeville Rec Hall (901 NW Alexander St, Coupeville)

This is a free workshop, but we request you RSVP at this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z6LVCT2

Hosted by Island County Marine Resources Committee

Printable PDF Flyer
2019-09-28 MRC Sea Level Rise

9:30 am to about 10:30 am, in the Forest Room at Cama Center. 

Would you like to serve on the Steering Committee? Find out what the meetings are like by attending one. 

The public education presentation usually held on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7 pm at the Camano Branch of Sno-Isle Public Library will not be held on Sept 25. Instead it will be held on Wed, Oct 2, 2019. Speaker and topic are to be announced. Basic subject is local Camano Septic Systems, drainfield function, and where does our effluent go. 

The Fall VET training resumes Thursdays, Sept 12 through Oct 24. VET is Volunteer Education and Training program. It is the premier 13 week 100 hour training program that all Sound Water Stewards take. 

Training starts at 9 am with a lunch break mid-day and a morning or afternoon field trip. We are generally finished by 3 pm. 

Coffee, tea, hot water and snacks will be provided the first half of our day (if we are at Cama Center that day). Please bring your lunch. We invite you to bring your own mug. 

ALL SWS MEMBERS are welcome to attend classes as a refresher course, but field trip participation is on a space available basis. Please RSVP or inquire through the Camano Coordinator.

NOTE: Discovery Pass is required to park at Cama Beach State Park. Tickets will be issued to people parking without a pass. If you don't have one, be sure to pick up a temporary purple pass signifying you are a local volunteer. The volunteer pass is only good for Camano's two state parks.

Presentations: 

Sep 12 - Land Reclamation and Estuary Restoration: learn about Leque Island and zi-sa-ba (local) projects and field trip to two sites on Fir Island. Presenters include Loren Brokaw and Belinda Rotton of WDFW.

Sep 19 - Storm Water Management and Feeder Bluffs with Derek Hann. Afternoon field trip to Camano Transfer station to learn about recycling and waste management with Scott Chase and Jerilyn Ritzman. 

Sep 26 - Salmon Hatchery and Conservation  with Kip Killebrew, Stillaguamish Tribe Hatchery Manager (this training day starts at the Hatchery). Afternoon presentations on Tribal Fishing Rights and recreational crabbing and shrimping. (Hatchery Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 3 - Sea Level Rise with Jay Mouton, Ocean Acidification with Dr. Brooke Love and Forage Fish with Phill Dionne.

Oct 10 - Native American Culture, Hibulb Center (at Tulalip). Island County Hydrology with Doug Kelly, of Island County hydrogeologist. 

Oct 17 - Penn Cove Mussel Tour with Tim Jones. Beavers of the Pacific Northwest with Elyssa Kerr. (Mussel Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 24 - Earthquakes, Faults, Tsunamies with Brian Sherrod. Plastics with Mahmoud Addel-Monem

All Camano Sound Water Stewards are invited to the monthly meeting on the first Monday of each month at Cama Center. Snacks are provided and we usually have an educational speaker plus we discuss what our citizen science and beach monitoring teams have learned. We'd love to see you there. (If the first Monday is a holiday, the meeting will be the following Monday)

NOTE: Discovery Pass is required to park at Cama Beach State Park. Tickets will be issued to people parking without a pass. If you don't have one, be sure to pick up a temporary purple pass signifying you are a local volunteer. The volunteer pass is only good for Camano's two state parks.

The Fall VET training resumes Thursdays, Sept 12 through Oct 24. VET is Volunteer Education and Training program. It is the premier 13 week 100 hour training program that all Sound Water Stewards take. 

Training starts at 9 am with a lunch break mid-day and a morning or afternoon field trip. We are generally finished by 3 pm. 

Coffee, tea, hot water and snacks will be provided the first half of our day (if we are at Cama Center that day). Please bring your lunch. We invite you to bring your own mug. 

ALL SWS MEMBERS are welcome to attend classes as a refresher course, but field trip participation is on a space available basis. Please RSVP or inquire through the Camano Coordinator.

NOTE: Discovery Pass is required to park at Cama Beach State Park. Tickets will be issued to people parking without a pass. If you don't have one, be sure to pick up a temporary purple pass signifying you are a local volunteer. The volunteer pass is only good for Camano's two state parks.

Presentations: 

Sep 12 - Land Reclamation and Estuary Restoration: learn about Leque Island and zi-sa-ba (local) projects and field trip to two sites on Fir Island. Presenters include Loren Brokaw and Belinda Rotton of WDFW.

Sep 19 - Storm Water Management and Feeder Bluffs with Derek Hann. Afternoon field trip to Camano Transfer station to learn about recycling and waste management with Scott Chase and Jerilyn Ritzman. 

Sep 26 - Salmon Hatchery and Conservation  with Kip Killebrew, Stillaguamish Tribe Hatchery Manager (this training day starts at the Hatchery). Afternoon presentations on Tribal Fishing Rights and recreational crabbing and shrimping. (Hatchery Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 3 - Sea Level Rise with Jay Mouton, Ocean Acidification with Dr. Brooke Love and Forage Fish with Phill Dionne.

Oct 10 - Native American Culture, Hibulb Center (at Tulalip). Island County Hydrology with Doug Kelly, of Island County hydrogeologist. 

Oct 17 - Penn Cove Mussel Tour with Tim Jones. Beavers of the Pacific Northwest with Elyssa Kerr. (Mussel Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 24 - Earthquakes, Faults, Tsunamies with Brian Sherrod. Plastics with Mahmoud Addel-Monem

The Fall VET training resumes Thursdays, Sept 12 through Oct 24. VET is Volunteer Education and Training program. It is the premier 13 week 100 hour training program that all Sound Water Stewards take. 

Training starts at 9 am with a lunch break mid-day and a morning or afternoon field trip. We are generally finished by 3 pm. 

Coffee, tea, hot water and snacks will be provided the first half of our day (if we are at Cama Center that day). Please bring your lunch. We invite you to bring your own mug. 

ALL SWS MEMBERS are welcome to attend classes as a refresher course, but field trip participation is on a space available basis. Please RSVP or inquire through the Camano Coordinator.

NOTE: Discovery Pass is required to park at Cama Beach State Park. Tickets will be issued to people parking without a pass. If you don't have one, be sure to pick up a temporary purple pass signifying you are a local volunteer. The volunteer pass is only good for Camano's two state parks.

Presentations: 

Sep 12 - Land Reclamation and Estuary Restoration: learn about Leque Island and zi-sa-ba (local) projects and field trip to two sites on Fir Island. Presenters include Loren Brokaw and Belinda Rotton of WDFW.

Sep 19 - Storm Water Management and Feeder Bluffs with Derek Hann. Afternoon field trip to Camano Transfer station to learn about recycling and waste management with Scott Chase and Jerilyn Ritzman. 

Sep 26 - Salmon Hatchery and Conservation  with Kip Killebrew, Stillaguamish Tribe Hatchery Manager (this training day starts at the Hatchery). Afternoon presentations on Tribal Fishing Rights and recreational crabbing and shrimping. (Hatchery Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 3 - Sea Level Rise with Jay Mouton, Ocean Acidification with Dr. Brooke Love and Forage Fish with Phill Dionne.

Oct 10 - Native American Culture, Hibulb Center (at Tulalip). Island County Hydrology with Doug Kelly, of Island County hydrogeologist. 

Oct 17 - Penn Cove Mussel Tour with Tim Jones. Beavers of the Pacific Northwest with Elyssa Kerr. (Mussel Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 24 - Earthquakes, Faults, Tsunamies with Brian Sherrod. Plastics with Mahmoud Addel-Monem

The Fall VET training resumes Thursdays, Sept 12 through Oct 24. VET is Volunteer Education and Training program. It is the premier 13 week 100 hour training program that all Sound Water Stewards take. 

Training starts at 9 am with a lunch break mid-day and a morning or afternoon field trip. We are generally finished by 3 pm. 

Coffee, tea, hot water and snacks will be provided the first half of our day (if we are at Cama Center that day). Please bring your lunch. We invite you to bring your own mug. 

ALL SWS MEMBERS are welcome to attend classes as a refresher course, but field trip participation is on a space available basis. Please RSVP or inquire through the Camano Coordinator.

NOTE: Discovery Pass is required to park at Cama Beach State Park. Tickets will be issued to people parking without a pass. If you don't have one, be sure to pick up a temporary purple pass signifying you are a local volunteer. The volunteer pass is only good for Camano's two state parks.

Presentations: 

Sep 12 - Land Reclamation and Estuary Restoration: learn about Leque Island and zi-sa-ba (local) projects and field trip to two sites on Fir Island. Presenters include Loren Brokaw and Belinda Rotton of WDFW.

Sep 19 - Storm Water Management and Feeder Bluffs with Derek Hann. Afternoon field trip to Camano Transfer station to learn about recycling and waste management with Scott Chase and Jerilyn Ritzman. 

Sep 26 - Salmon Hatchery and Conservation  with Kip Killebrew, Stillaguamish Tribe Hatchery Manager (this training day starts at the Hatchery). Afternoon presentations on Tribal Fishing Rights and recreational crabbing and shrimping. (Hatchery Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 3 - Sea Level Rise with Jay Mouton, Ocean Acidification with Dr. Brooke Love and Forage Fish with Phill Dionne.

Oct 10 - Native American Culture, Hibulb Center (at Tulalip). Island County Hydrology with Doug Kelly, of Island County hydrogeologist. 

Oct 17 - Penn Cove Mussel Tour with Tim Jones. Beavers of the Pacific Northwest with Elyssa Kerr. (Mussel Field Trip is limited to current students only.)

Oct 24 - Earthquakes, Faults, Tsunamies with Brian Sherrod. Plastics with Mahmoud Addel-Monem

9:30 am to about 10:30 am, in the Forest Room at Cama Center.
Would you like to serve on the Steering Committee? Find out what the meetings are like by attending one.

All Camano Sound Water Stewards are invited to the monthly meeting on the first Monday of each month at Cama Center. Snacks are provided and we usually have an educational speaker plus we discuss what our citizen science and beach monitoring teams have learned. We'd love to see you there. (If the first Monday is a holiday, the meeting will be the following Monday)

NOTE: Discovery Pass is required to park at Cama Beach State Park. Tickets will be issued to people parking without a pass. If you don't have one, be sure to pick up a temporary purple pass signifying you are a local volunteer. The volunteer pass is only good for Camano's two state parks.

Stay tuned for more details -- items being donated for the Whidbey Holiday Party's auction/raffle are being request welll in advance of the 12/12/19 party. **PLEASE, no walk-in donations on 12/12**

9:30 am to about 10:30 am, in the Forest Room at Cama Center.
Would you like to serve on the Steering Committee? Find out what the meetings are like by attending one.

All Camano Sound Water Stewards are invited to the monthly meeting on the first Monday of each month at Cama Center. Snacks are provided and we usually have an educational speaker plus we discuss what our citizen science and beach monitoring teams have learned. We'd love to see you there. (If the first Monday is a holiday, the meeting will be the following Monday)

NOTE: Discovery Pass is required to park at Cama Beach State Park. Tickets will be issued to people parking without a pass. If you don't have one, be sure to pick up a temporary purple pass signifying you are a local volunteer. The volunteer pass is only good for Camano's two state parks.