Learn-n-serve Environmental Anthropology Field

Community Partners and Service-Learning Projects

Partnerships with local tribes, governments, non-profits, businesses and educational institutions make a variety of service-learning projects possible. Recent service-learning projects have included the following:

• Snowtracking and remote camera monitoring to document the presence of wildlife along I-90 and in the Cascades as part of Cascade Citizens Wildlife Monitoring Project, a partnership between Conservation Northwest, Wilderness Awareness School and I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition;
• Ethnographic study of Jetty Island, an uninhabited island owned by the Port of Everett and managed as a park by the City of Everett;
• Assisting the Stillaguamish Tribe with broodstocking of Chinook, habitat restoration and the production of an annual Festival of the River;
• Salmon habitat restoration with Adopt-A-Stream Foundation, Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force, Whidbey Watershed Stewards and Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition;
• River, beach and lake cleanups with Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force;
• Writing a trail guide, vegetation monitoring, construction of an outdoor classroom and organic gardening with Whidbey Institute and Good Cheer;
• Exploring sustainable food production, community supported agriculture, farmer's markets and low impact design with Camano Island Coffee Roasters, 21 Acres, Klesick Family Farms, Pam's Produce and Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream;
• Water quality monitoring and youth mentoring with WSU Extension 4-H and Edmonds Backyard Wildlife Habitat;
• Shellfish habitat, microplastics and beach profile surveys with WSU Extension Beach Watchers, Port Townsend Marine Science Center and Snohomish County Marine Resources Committee;
• Helping People For Puget Sound and Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Preserve produce Storming the Sound, an annual workshop for environmental educators;
• Maintaining an ethnobotanical garden at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center and helping to produce Seafair Indian Days Powwow;
• Tours of water resources at Cedar River Watershed Education Center, West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant and Everett Water Pollution Control;
• Marine expedition aboard the Indigo and trail maintenance with Service, Education and Adventure and Washington State Parks.