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HomeMy WebLinkAbout122022 FW_ HCSEG News_ End of Year Giving_ A Year in Review ________________________________ From: The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:31:16 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Greg Brotherton Subject: HCSEG News: End of Year Giving, A Year in Review ________________________________ ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. ________________________________ <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/2a7683d2876c28aaa03c107dd/images/d81f1f34-c1a0-41dd-b8d8-30e3454c77b4.png> End of Year Giving, A Year in Review _ A Message from HCSEG To the Salmon People of the Pacific Northwest, The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group has been growing, learning and adapting over the last year as we adjust to the changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, a challenging experience that has been shared across our entire country. Despite the uncertainty and bumps along the way, HCSEG not only continued our research, restoration and education programs, but found new ways to develop and expand them to be more inclusive and impactful for the areas we serve. <https://mcusercontent.com/2a7683d2876c28aaa03c107dd/images/4a827b27-6f54-8884-9b10-5237ddec05ab.jpg> In 2021-22, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction awarded HCSEG a $930,000 grant to bring Salmon in the Schools programming to elementary schools designated as high-poverty. This funding allowed HCSEG and 14 other nonprofit partners to bring Salmon in the Schools to over 8,700 students in 109 schools across Washington State. Salmon in the Schools is one of the most valuable environmental education programs we have to offer young kids in the Pacific Northwest, as it allows students to witness first-hand the salmon lifecycle as well as get outdoors to explore salmon habitat. For this program, HCSEG and partners install aquariums and bring salmon eggs to classrooms, where students observe young salmon grow while being taught lessons about the salmon lifecycle, their local ecosystem, the connection between salmon and our community, biology and salmon anatomy. At the end of the program, students bring their classroom’s salmon fry to local rivers for a culminating release day event. This event brings students outside to connect what they have learned in the classroom to the natural world, and often includes visits to local hatcheries, presentations by tribal members and community partners, and plant identification forays. <https://mcusercontent.com/2a7683d2876c28aaa03c107dd/images/9196e827-278d-cdb4-9acb-e1bcfafe9135.jpg> The impact of this program simply cannot be overstated; the 2022 Salmon in the Schools release day events provided most students with their first field trip in over two years, and students and teachers alike found both knowledge and joy in their Salmon in the Schools experience. This past year even more schools joined this program, and HCSEG is continuing our mission to secure this funding for years to come. HCSEG has been busy with significant salmon habitat projects around the Hood Canal as well. In 2022, we secured $19,174,000 from the Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board for the Duckabush Estuary Restoration Project, which will restore the estuary by replacing a section of highway 101 with an estuary spanning bridge. Currently, the highway is supported by fill reaching 12 feet high and bisecting the entire estuary. This fill has negatively impacted how sediment, water and fish interact in this ecosystem. <https://mcusercontent.com/2a7683d2876c28aaa03c107dd/images/7868675f-62cc-adcb-1b30-20ddb1d95347.jpg> Through this project, we are restoring and creating viable habitat for all species of salmon that call the Duckabush home, including threatened Hood Canal Summer Chum, Puget Sound Chinook, and Puget Sound Steelhead. With 75% of estuary habitat in the Puget Sound being severely altered or destroyed, the success and support for this project could not be more timely. This project also has the potential to reduce the annual flooding events for the local community by removing the river’s bottleneck effect during high water flow events, which is caused by the highway fill. <https://mcusercontent.com/2a7683d2876c28aaa03c107dd/images/19cef76a-6a05-4fda-53f8-460c840a693e.jpg> This large-scale habitat restoration project has multiple far-reaching benefits for both salmon and the local community. To see exactly what’s in store for the Duckabush estuary, you can click here to visit the project page on our website. <https://pnwsalmoncenter.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a7683d2876c28aaa03c107dd&id=8e39877256&e=7b142fb1ac> In 2022 and beyond, HCSEG will continue to find resources and ways to support land, people and salmon in the Pacific Northwest. But to do this, we need help from our community. As a grassroots nonprofit we rely not only on grants, but also on your donations and membership to keep these projects going. If you would like to join our mission to ensure that wild salmon are thriving in the Pacific Northwest once again, as well as foster the next generation of environmental stewards through our education programs, then please consider supporting HCSEG by making a donation or becoming a member by clicking one of the buttons at the bottom of this message. Through this, you are creating a positive impact that is real in your local community - for now and into the future. For salmon and for all. 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