The Dungeness River Nature Center hosted Sequim Middle School’s sixth grade science students for four days to learn about stewardship of the river.
Students took turns at different stations, including learning about salmon life cycles and placing coho salmon fry from Dungeness Hatchery in the river.
They also ran a salmon obstacle course, and made a “Watershed Stewardship Pledge” sharing how they plan to help the environment.
Students prepared native flower seed bomb balls they threw around the center, and learned about different invasive species and strategies for removal. They also spent time cutting and pulling scotch broom off the Olympic Discovery Trail.
The field trips were made possible through generous support from donors of the Dungeness River Nature Center.
Sequim High School advanced placement biology class students also volunteered for the trip.
For more information about the Dungeness River Nature Center, visit dungenessrivercenter.org.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Sixth graders place coho salmon fry in the Dungeness River after learning about salmon’s life cycle during a field trip to the Railroad Bridge Park on May 29. Sequim Middle School students went to the park over four days.
Sequim High Schooler Miles Bujanda prepares a fry salmon to give to a Sequim Middle School sixth grader to release in the Dungeness River. Bujanda was one of many high schoolers to volunteer for four field trips.
Sequim Gazette photos by Matthew Nash Sixth grade science students, from left, Skylie Stover, Marinah Jewart, and Cadynce Smith make native flower seed ball bombs to place around the Dungeness River Nature Center.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Powell Jones, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s land stewardship manager, and a group of Sequim sixth graders test the Dungeness River Railroad Bridge for its flexibility during a field trip on May 29 by jumping up and down.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Sequim Middle School science teacher Sara Turner throws some scotch broom into a pile that she, sixth graders and other volunteers cut during a field trip.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Anderson Williams, parent volunteer Kelsey Horst, Connor Horst, and Jack Ross work together to make wildflower seed ball bombs to place around the Dungeness River Nature Center during a field trip for Sequim Middle School sixth grade science classes.
