BEACH NATURALISTS NEEDED!
Care about beaches? Good with people? Sign up to be a volunteer beach
naturalist at a Seattle-area beach this summer. Naturalists will receive
training from marine and interpretative experts on four weekday evenings
(April 29 and May 6, 14 and 20) and three weekend days (May 4, 10 and
18). Once trained, volunteers spend three summer weekend days educating
visitors about beach ecology and beach etiquette at Carkeek Park,
Constellation Park (Alki), Des Moines Beach Park, Golden Gardens,
Lincoln Park, Olympic Sculpture Park Beach, Redondo Beach, Richmond
Beach and Seahurst Park.
A program
orientation will be held Tuesday evening, April 15, 6:30-8 PM,
at the Seattle Aquarium. To sign up or if you have any questions, please
call Charlotte Spang
at (206) 245-0143 or email
beachnaturalist@seattle.gov.
Sponsors
for this tenth year of the Beach Naturalist Program include Amgen Foundation,
the Forum for WRIA 9 (Green Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Watershed), the
Forum for WRIA 8 (Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed), the King
Conservation District,
People for Puget Sound, the Seattle Aquarium, Seattle
Department of Parks and Recreation and the Washington Department of Fish and
Wildlife.