Dungeness River Audubon Center

Programs: Education classes for schools and children - the dungeness river audubon center staff and volunteers provided field trips to the dungeness river and in-class enrichment programs for school classes and other children's groups. Total attendees in these field trips were 1443. The field trips served grades pre-k through high school but are focused on 3rd through 8th grade students. Each program sought to teach students about how watersheds and their inhabitants function and their value to communities, with the dungeness river being used as the center piece to the educational lessons.

maintenance and staffing of an interpretative center that was used for adult programs, classes, schools, and the general pubic to learn about how to conserve and maintain integrity of our natural resources. Total visitors to the center for all formally scheduled events was 16,492. Events included native landscaping classes, septic system maintenance, meetings for local groups and agencies working in natural resources, tours, and classes on watershed conservation, management, ecology, wildlife, and native plants. We also served 7,351 walk-in visitors by helping them interpret the olympic peninsula ecosystems, find conservation resources, and answer questions about flora and fauna.

dungeness river festival - this festival celebrates the dungeness river and all it provides for the communities and people of the sequim-dungeness valley. Exhibitors and vendors showcased their areas of expertise and how they related to the dungeness river, including the us fish and wildlife service, wa dept of ecology, jamestown s'klallam tribe, usfs, us park service, back country horsemen, and many more. The river center invites approximately 900 local school children along with accompanying adults to come experience and visit exhibitor booths to learn about the river and work being done in the watershed by agencies and groups participating in the festival. The festival was also open to the general public to experience. Total number of participants in the festival was 1600.