ROTARY SUPPORTS YOUNG MINDS

The MONITORING PROGRAM of the Carpenter Creek estuary restoration project is critical to evaluation of its success and in demonstrating need for further restoration here and elsewhere around the Sound. The Monitoring Program is citizen-scientist based, with oversight and guidance from the professionals on the Stillwaters monitoring team.

Stillwaters uses this monitoring program not only for protecting the estuary and documenting the restoration work, but also to train and educate our local citizens and university students about the importance of watershed protection, and to create advocates for preservation of natural spaces.

In 2015, with support from folks like the Kingston – N.K. Rotary, Stillwaters was able to supervise 9 university and high school interns and 41 volunteers (including a couple Rotarians & Interact students) for over 1700 hours dedicated to science and education in the monitoring program.

You are what makes it work! Supporters like Rotary join the other local donors and the many volunteers who are making Stillwaters a vibrant addition to our community and our Puget Sound basin! With your contribution, you protect the critical estuary habitat and surrounding watersheds, you educate young ones from local schools and from all over the country, and you give university environmental interns critical job skills in field research, restoration and outreach. This year, you are providing a field site for a graduate student, also. Those students, our local citizen scientist volunteers, and the fish and wildlife all thank you!