Calling all Puget Sound coastal conservationists!
We're hitting the road this summer and fall for a new initiative, Audubon Around the Sound: A Puget Sound coastal resilience tour featuring speakers, field trips, and community events aimed at bringing conservationists together to protect Puget Sound’s coastal habitats in a changing climate.
Everett: June 13, 2024 @ 7PM
Guest speaker: Dr. Sanpisa Sritrairat
Location: Commission Meeting Room, 2320 California Street, Everett, WA 98201
Pilchuck Audubon Society kicks off the conversation of "Audubon Around the Sound" by hosting guest speaker Dr. Sanpisa Sritrairat, part of the Coastal Resilience Team at Washington Sea Grant working collaboratively with diverse communities and interests in the cocreation of projects designed to enhance capacities that address current and future challenges arising from changing coastal systems.
Webinar: August 8, 2024 @ 6:30PM
Guest speakers: Noah Linck, Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellow with the Washington Department of Ecology. Jay Krienitz, Coast and Oceans Management Unit Supervisor with the Department of Ecology present on the projects and partners working to protect Puget Sound's shorelines.
Hosted by Black Hills Audubon Society
Watch the webinar recording. Passcode: @kt6.RRW
Webinar: September 24, 2024 @ 7PM
Hear from guest speakers Coastal Resilience Specialist Ellen Chappelka, and Associate Professor Kayla Wells about the challenges and solutions to some of the biggest threats to Puget Sound's coasts.
Location: Zoom Webinar
Hosted by North Cascades Audubon Society
Blaine: October 19, 2024
Field Trip
Hosted by North Cascades Audubon Society
Join Trina Bayard, Audubon Washington, and North Cascades Audubon to learn about the ways that estuary restoration and coastal resilience projects in Whatcom County are benefiting the birds of the Salish Sea and beyond. The trip will start with a stop at the mouth of California Creek to see estuary protection and restoration efforts led by Whatcom Land Trust, and then continue to Semiahmoo Spit to see the huge variety of birds benefiting from this work. There will be about 1.5-2 miles of walking on mixed terrain, including some uneven ground.
Edmonds: November 12, 2024 @ 6PM
Birds & Brews community event
Location: Salish Sea Brewing Boathouse, 180 W Dayton St Suite 102, Edmonds, WA 98020
Hosted by Pilchuck Audubon Society
Click here to register for the event!
