​We hosted this same event for last year's PNW Climate Week; so many volunteers 🧑‍🌾 showed up, sweated, and had a great time! We're excited to invite you all to come protect our local salmon habitat again this year.

​About Whale Scout

​Whale Scout leads the public in land-based whale watching experiences. We channel people’s interest and passion about whales into on the ground salmon habitat restoration projects protecting the primary food source of struggling orcas in Puget Sound.

​​Get your hands dirty!

​If you care about whales and want to help, you are probably closer to the solutions than you might think!

​Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales depend on salmon as a critical prey resource from watersheds in Puget Sound and beyond. Salmon use the Sammamish River as a migratory corridor. Improving the water quality in the river will help both struggling salmon populations and orcas. Planting native vegetation will help shade, cool, and clean a small stream emptying into the Sammamish River. Healthy riparian forests control erosion of riverbanks and host insects’ young salmon need early in life. The former Wayne Golf Course features nearly a mile of shoreline and is the largest City of Bothell Park. Activities will take place on the west side or “front nine.”

​Join us to care for new native plantings at the former Wayne Golf Course! You'll be watering our new plantings, and removing invasive weeds that crowd out our natives.

​For more details on the salmon habitat restoration project at the former Wayne Golf Course, please check out this link.

​All ages welcome! Those under 16 must be accompanied by an adult, under 18 need a signed release form by a parent.

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​​What to bring

​Comfortable clothes, long pants and long sleeves to protect from blackberry, closed toed shoes, reusable water bottle

​​Provided

​Tools, gloves, and light snacks

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​Last year's volunteer group! We had a blast removing blackberries and watering new plantings.

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