North Olympic Salmon Coalition

"Watershed specter feeding the firs, subterranean sometime king, tree-bornelder,tutor."

-Tom Jay, writing about a spawning salmon

upcoming events

Chum Spawner SurveyTraining - August 20th.Cupola House, PointHudson (Port Townsend)10am-noon.

Chum Spawner Survey August 26th. Meet atNOSC office at 9am.

Chum Spawner SurveySeptember 9th. Meet atNOSC office, PortHadlock, at 9am.

Citizen Action TrainingSchool - September10th. Sequim Library, 6-8:30pm.

Annual MeetingSeptember 13th,Dungeness Schoolhouse1:00-3:30pm.

Chum Spawner Survey

Join the Chum Spawner Survey team!Volunteers gear up for the magnificent summer chum run

Volunteers and the WCC crew taking measurements during the 2013 season.Photo by Charles Espey.

If you haven't stopped by Chimacum Creek during the Chum run,it is worth a look. Better yet, you could be right in the thick of itby joining a survey team with NOSC! Attend our free training on Wednesday, August 20th, from10am-noon in the Cupola House in Point Hudson, Port Townsend(the home of the WSU Extension; map of the location) to join the2014 Chum Spawner Survey team! Please RSVP Larry, intern@nosc.org or 379-8051 to attend thetraining. Spawner surveyors walk the creek during the Hood Canal summerchum salmon run, counting live and dead fish, taking scalesamples, and having a blast. This is a one-day-per-weekcommitment, starting with the training and lasting throughOctober. We supply all the necessary gear and survey equipment.No prior experience is needed, just a willingness to support ourmission to protect wild salmon and their habitat while

September 16th. Meet atNOSC office, PortHadlock, at 9am.

RSVP Larry

intern@nosc.org

or 379-8051

CATS applications aredue Monday Aug. 18!

email raubin@nosc.orgfor an application.

See our website for moreinformation.

JOIN THE WCC!

Applications for the PortHadlock WCC crew arenow being accepted. Ifyou are between theages of 18-25 and wantto work outdoorseveryday (rain orshine)on a six-personrestoration crew, here'sa great opportunity foryou.

Applications will beaccepted until all fivepositions are filled.

Visit the WCCwebsite for moreinformation and toapply.

experiencing one of nature's greatest marvels: a salmonmigration. 2013 was a record year for Chimacum Creek summer chum. TheWashington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) used datacollected by NOSC volunteers to estimate the size of the run,which they calculated at over 3,000 fish! This was the highestreturn since efforts to restore the run commenced in the 1980s.We hope you'll join us for another amazing season!

Annual Meeting 2014

Saturday, September 13th, 1:00pm

The Dungeness Schoolhouse in Sequim

Calling all Members, Donors and Volunteers. Please join us onSeptember 13th for our Annual Meeting being held at theDungeness School House. We are excited to present to ourcommunity some of our new Dungeness Watershed projects, handout some fruit pie, and give any interested party a tour of our 3Crabs Restoration Site. An invitation will be coming in your mailbox within the next fewweeks. We hope to see you there! Interested in becoming a NOSC member? Since 1991, North Olympic Salmon Coalition has passionatelyworked to restore, enhance, and protect the habitat of our wildsalmon stocks and to promote community volunteerism,understanding, cooperation and stewardship of these resources.YOUR membership support makes this good work possible! Pleasebegin or renew your membership online today! YOUR support keeps our beloved organization going strong! Weonly have 55 more memberships to go before we reach our goal. Thank you for becoming a member today!

Discovery Bay Estuary RestorationWCC crew member Dylan Kelly reflects on his job shadow

Thank you to allwho participated in

our first annualgolf tournament!

The fundraising team(Jeff Taylor, Jean Erreca,and Robin and GabeOrnelas) set a goal of$2,000 for this endeavor,but worked hard toexceed that goal--and wedid!

13 sponsors, 39 golfers,and many smalldonations put the grandtotal at $5,984 raisedfor salmon habitatrestoration andenvironmental educationon the OlympicPeninsula!

Thank you to everyonewho made thisfundraising eventpossible!

Team Awards

Chinook prize (forlowest score): RoySutherland, WoodyWoodaly, Bob Norberg,and Jim Fultz. Coho prize (for medianscore): Chad Krofta, NickBruckbauer, and SkyMiller. Chum prize (for highest

Dylan of the Port Hadlock WCC crew working at Discovery Bay

Last week, I had the opportunity to job shadow NOSC ProjectManager Kevin Long at the Discovery Bay Estuary Restoration site.Witnessing the construction work was very interesting. It wasgreat to watch a contracted crew in action. They work hard! Ifound myself thinking about the similarities between theconstruction crew and my WCC (Washington Conservation Corps)crew. We are alike in many ways, such as the safety procedureswe follow when working on a job site and how we communicatewith each other. I also gained a lot of great insight on what ittakes to be in that job field and to work around heavy machinery.The day I spent with Kevin and the crew had a big impact on myfuture career goals. As I've watched this restoration projectprogress this year, I've realized how great of a feeling it is toknow that, in some way, our WCC crew had helped. It has alsomade me realize how fortunate I am to have this job.

~Dylan Kelly

Visit the Discovery Bay project blog for information on theEstuary Restoration project as well as current updates on theprogress.

Dungeness Riparian Recovery Project Over 50 landowners sign up to have noxious weeds

removed from their riverside property

score): Randy Smalling,Tucker Allen, HarveyWhite, and Alan Bush. Individual AwardsLongest drive: ClareO'Conner, Harvey White Closest to the pin: CindyJayne, Harvey White Chip-in-the-boatContest winner: BrianGoldstein Putting contest winner:Larry Montague

FishHeadlines:

Forage fish foundspawning in newhabitat created by

the Elwha damremovals!

What does thismean for salmon?

Listen to the story onKPLU.org

to find out!

BRAND NEWMERCHANDISE

COMING SOON to our

Port Hadlock office!

A close-up of butterfly bush (a Class B noxious weed in WA state) on agravel bar of the Dungeness River. The Port Hadlock WCC (pictured inbackground) has begun work to remove the plant and restore riparian

forest area on 75 acres of floodplain habitat.This July, our WCC crew did an amazing job of clearing 1.5 acresof invasive butterfly bush on the Dungeness River. The crew iscurrently We are currently doing wildfire response as a base campsupport crew at the Carlton Complex wildfire (visit their facebookpage to see what they've been up to in Winthrop andTwisp.) They will be back out to do more work on the Dungenessin October.

Thank you to the 50+ landowners who have signed on to haveinvasive species removed from their property. We couldn't do thisproject without your support! If you have questions about theDungeness Riparian Recovery Project, take a look at ourbrochure, or please contact Sarah Doyle, NOSC stewardshipcoordinator, at sdoyle@nosc.org.

Additional thanks go out to our project partners:

Salmon Recovery Funding Board, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe,Clallam County Noxious Weed Board, and Washington

Conservation Corps.

Free community art workshops for SalmonFestival

Make Salmon Lanterns at the Hadlock Library!

Al the alevin LOVESour new hats

WISH LISTDonate to NOSC!

- - SALMONBERRIES! But why? Click here fordetails.

-drop-leaf table for

outreach office

- red fabric

- 12-passenger van

Follow NOSC onFacebook

Join us to make paper lanterns such as these in preparation for the SalmonFestival in Chimacum Nov. 1st, when they will be ceremoniously lit andraised in celebration of the return of our favorite local fishes.

Join artist Thaddeus Jurczynski on the evenings of September 8and 9 from 5 to 7:30 pm at the Jefferson County Library. Participants may be able to complete a lantern in one session,but better to plan to come both nights. Mark your calendars for these workshops, and for the festivalitself: Saturday November 1, from 11am to 5pm at the ChimacumHigh School. Questions? Contact Thaddeus: tadezdada@yahoo.com; 732-4144.

Education and Volunteer Highlights

Weed pulling, plant monitoring, and... playing inside of a 25-foot long salmon, of course!

Kids from the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's summer youth program on awildlife scavenger hunt inside FIN the Migrating Salmon.

Campers from a Port Townsend Marine Science Center summer camp pullinvasive Scot's broom on the beach at Fort Worden State Park.

A family poses for a shot with FIN at the Joyce Daze Wild BlackberryFestival in Joyce.

Ann Weinmann leading a vegetation survey of the salt marsh habitat at the3 Crabs Restoration site in Dungeness.