Would you like to teach kids about salmon and watersheds?  Join our volunteer training September 21, 9am-12:30pm to help with classroom lessons and field trips this this fall. You’ll learn about our Salmon in Schools and Kids in Creeks programs, and how to lead activities in and out of the classroom. This is a great opportunity for those looking for teaching experience, or just get outside and have fun!

We’ll start with an overview of our school-based education programs and then head to the creek to learn about field trip lessons and coordination.

Sign up to help with one or more classroom lessons or field trips through December 15.

Requirements:

  • Must have weekday availability between 8am and 3pm
  • Willing to be outside in inclement weather
  • Physically able to walk on uneven ground, possibly in streams
  • Able to carry up to 30 pounds
  • Pass a background check done by SFEG and with school districts

Register HERE

*A second training will be held in early 2024 to train on spring field trips

Join us Saturday, August 26th, 10am-1pm to remove invasive English ivy and Himalayan blackberry from the restoration project areas along the Skagit River at Edgewater Park.

Park in the main parking lot at Edgewater Park, 600 Behrens Millett Rd, Mount Vernon
Accessibility: The walk from the parking area to the work site is ~400 yards over relatively smooth, even terrain.
What volunteers should bring: Please bring a water bottle, weather-appropriate clothing, and closed-toe shoes.
What SFEG will bring: SFEG will provide tools, gloves, instruction, coffee and light snacks
Please Register HERE

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 2023 at the LINCOLN THEATRE

A CELEBRATION OF OUR ENVIRONMENT!

Reception starts at 6pm, program begins at 7pm.

Join the fun at the reception before the films with music by Whiskey River Mudflats and refreshments.  Arrive early to get your tickets and avoid the lines!  Or better yet, PURCHASE your tickets now and just enjoy the reception!

Ticket Price: $20 or $40 PURCHASE NOW

($40 ticket purchase includes a special discounted SFEG membership and a gift from Kleen Kanteen!)

8 Featured Films:

  • Finding Salmon
  • One Star Reviews
  • The Last Last Hike
  • Black Like Plastic—Nature, Culture, and People
  • Land of the Yakamas
  • Tad’s Emerging World – Glen Canyon Exposed
  • I Am Salmon 
  • The Lost Salmon

Read synopses for these films HERE

 

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival returns to the Lincoln Theater.

The Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group (SFEG) is excited to bring the Wild & Scenic Film Festival back to the Historic Lincoln Theater for one night only on Thursday, October 12th. This evening of short films will kick off with a reception starting at 6 pm featuring music by Whiskey River Mudflats and refreshments, followed by the film showing at 7pm.  Come early and join the fun! 

The Film Festival will feature short films that will delight the senses, inform our minds and help us appreciate nature and the struggles to protect it. Films were selected from a collection of over 200 films shown at the annual film festival held in Nevada City, CA. The films capture the spirit of varying environmental movements across the globe and the relationship that they have to humanity and that humanity has to them. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival works with environmental groups across the globe to host On Tour events as a way to outreach into different communities and bring together a diverse audience.

A Benefit for SFEG

SFEG is thrilled to be selected as a host organization for this amazing film event for the 6th year and hopes the Film Festival will inspire a greater connection with our own Wild and Scenic Skagit River, as well as providing an evening of engaging fun.

SFEG is a nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging the community in restoring wild salmon populations for future generations. Salmon habitat enhancement is accomplished through habitat restoration, monitoring, and a wide variety of community outreach and education programs. SFEG offers free educational programs to over 1,500 students each year. These opportunities get students out of their classrooms and learning hands-on real science and watershed exploration which otherwise would not be available and affordable to local schools. Funds raised will go towards supporting these important education programs. They will also enable the program to continue to be offered free of charge to local schools.

 

Purchase tickets ahead of time to avoid the lines, or come early to the 6pm reception to enjoy live music and refreshments.

-Purchase tickets ONLINE through the Lincoln Theatre website:  CLICK TO PURCHASE TICKETS 

-Purchase tickets in person at the Lincoln Theatre Ticket Office, Mon-Fri from 12 noon to 5PM, 712 S. First Street, Mount Vernon

-Purchase tickets by phone by calling the Lincoln Theatre at 360-336-8955 from 12 noon to 5PM.

 

 

Thank you to our local sponsors, the Skagit Watershed Council and Haggen!

 

 

 

Interested in helping sponsor this event? Click here for sponsor benefits and more info. Don’t hesitate to reach out to hhenderson@skagitfisheries.org with any questions regarding sponsorship or the event in general.