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What are the Watershed Stewards up to?
Many Watershed Stewards use the knowledge they learn in the class series in their homes or at work. Here are a few Watershed Stewards and their projects that help improve our watersheds.
| Clark County Fair Display designed and constructed thanks to dedicated volunteers. |
The 2009 Clark County Fair began on August 7th, but volunteers worked nearly every day prior to get the Watershed Stewards display up and running. Many Watershed Stewards had a hand in the booth this year, going beyond the usual setup to design and construct the life-sized rain garden.
Thanks to Kathleen McKellar who donated plants and designed the rain garden, thanks to Dave Shehorn for donating the rocks and being a huge help all around, thanks to Sonya Norton who did an amazing job on the backdrop, thanks to Jeff Duval for his help on the rain barrel setup, thanks to Sue Pickering for her help creating the rain garden, thanks to Wes Sumrill for doing the hard labor, and thanks to Young Leung, Patty Page, Janice Ferguson, Tracy Sand and non WS (yet) Lisa Elliott and Victoria Bray for their help during setup and design. The display looks great and I look forward to hearing everyone's comments and thoughts.
| Congratulations to Watershed Steward Jac Arnal! |
Meet Jac Arnal. Jac became a Watershed Steward in 2006 and has donated more than 300 volunteer hours since then. Jac is involved with many environmental and non-environmental programs in Clark County. He volunteers with the Watershed Stewards, Clark PUD's StreamTeam, Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge, and Friends of Trees. In addition, he volunteers as a blacksmith at Fort Vancouver, is involved with emergency response training and is busy with his grandkids!
Through all this work, Jac managed his own restoration project on a riparian area along Tenny Creek. A small piece of Clark County property sits between Jac's home and Tenny Creek. In 2006, Jac realized that this land was overgrown with non-native species and was choking the small creek. He took the Watershed Stewards training and began the long road to restore this section of creek. Since then, he's recruited other Watershed Stewards to remove more than 1/2 acre of blackberry and planting more than 75 trees. He's seen wildlife return to this area and was lucky to uncover native plants like trilium, native sedges and native blackberry.
Jac won a 2009 Sammy Award at the June 11th awards ceremony. Jac was honored for the project he spearheaded at Tenny Creek. Read The Columbian article or learn more about the Sammy Awards at the County's ESA program pages. Jac does an amazing amount of work for our watersheds. Thank you Jac!
Quarterly Watershed Stewards Newsletter
Check out our volunteer driven newsletter for information on the program and interesting stories on watershed related groups and projects
Fall 2009 (pdf - 2 MB) Summer 2009 (pdf - 3 MB) Spring 2009 (pdf - 1.3 MB) |
Winter 2008 (pdf - 1 MB) Spring 2008 (pdf - 1.5 MB) |
Winter 2007 (pdf - 1.1 MB) Summer 2007 (pdf - 700 KB) |
Annual Reports
Watershed Stewards Program and the Clean Water Program issues annual reports. Take a look at the impact we have in Clark County.
2008 Annual Report
2007 Annual Report
2006 Annual Report
2005 Annual Report
2004 Annual Report
2003 Annual Report
2002 Annual Report
2001 Annual Report
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