Photo Credit: Prenz Sa-Ngoun

To say Orca Recovery Day grew in 2019 would be an understatement. At times, the growth was overwhelming, as organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest signed up to join us and our Conservation District partners to make this year’s event a major success. Depending on how you measure it, we either tripled or quadrupled our impact from last year!

17TH ANNUAL CHILDREN’S WATER FESTIVAL UPCOMING
Since 2015, Pierce Conservation District has organized the Children’s Water Festival, an annual event for local 5th graders. Now entering its 17th year, the Festival continues to showcase the valuable environmental education resources here in our community. Roughly 120 volunteers from local agencies, education organizations and the community at large come together each year to make

South Prairie Creek Preserve. Photo Credit: Daniel Changa

Volunteers enjoyed perfectly crisp autumn weather at the South Prairie Creek Preserve planting parties. With construction of the South Prairie Creek Restoration Project on the horizon in 2020, PCD worked over the fall to plant 1.85 acres at the west end of the site. Twenty-eight volunteers, together with