If You Don't Know Now You Know

So, there is this non-profit that I actively volunteer for and have for over 3 years. This group is known as People for Puget Sound. This group is largely based on the idea of restoring the health of the Puget Sound and the Straits. People for Puget Sound does a bunch of green space restoration, land and shoreline reclamation, policy activism and the like in effort to produce greater amounts of habitat for birds and fish of the Puget Sound. There are 3 different branches of this organization one being centered in Seattle, on in Snohomish County and one in the South Sound area located in Olympia. People for Puget Sound also promotes and holds different educational events, guest speakers, and the like to promote awareness about the health of the Puget Sound, threats to it, and various components of the ecology of the ecosystem. People for Puget Sound also works with similar non-profit organizations in order to ensure that more work parties are accomplished, to increase awareness of these groups, and ultimately to increase the amount of good done toward the health of Washington States most important water way.

Once a year this group offers a stewardship training class, for free, where they teach the interested individuals about the local ecosystem, native and invasive plants, and then expect new 'sound stewards' to do something like 40 of restoration work in the coming year. Anyways, invasive plant removal and native plant planting is a big part of what this organization is all about. Speaking of that Earth Day is coming up!

In celebration of Earth Day I, a Sound Steward, will be leading a group of eager volunteers at a local park, to do restoration work on Saturday, April 18th. Contact me if interested. However, here is link to many different restoration projects that will be occurring in and around the Seattle area: http://www.pugetsound.org/act/volunteer/volunteer-opportunties. Doing restoration work is a good form of exercise, a good way to meet people, rewarding when you can see what a group can do, and its good for the local environment. I urge anybody, who is even slightly interested to either join me or go to one of the other events going on. Last years Earth Day work party was a lot of fun and I think the handful of my friends that showed up felt like they did there part for the local environment.