Junior Stream Stewards Program
Junior Stream Stewards is a stewardship program for middle school students that connects kids, watersheds, and salmon. Junior Stream Stewards is a year-long Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group program that offers a unique learning opportunity, enabling students to experience in-depth, hands-on learning about watersheds and salmon habitat restoration. This program coincides with the school year and challenges students to apply classroom lessons with a stream restoration project in their backyard. As our signature education program, we currently serve almost 500 students annually at four schools. Our vision is to engage all middle school students in our region.
Skagit Fisheries staff and resource professionals engage students each month in a different topic related to salmon and watershed health through the Junior Stream Stewards program, which culminates in a service-learning project in their community to protect and enhance their local stream, in partnership with local organizations, businesses, and governments. With a combination of six classroom visits and two field trips (1 Watershed Tour and 1 Service-Learning Project), students learn all about salmon and the stream habitat that supports them by studying water quality, native plants, aquatic insects, the salmon life cycle, and much more.
