|
|
|
Creek
Days
Each year,
ERWIG teams up with the Watershed Stewards Project to host
Creek Days, an environmental education fair, which highlights
the end of the school year for hundreds of Humboldt County
students and teachers.
At
this free event, students hike among the Redwoods and engage
in hands-on learning activities ranging from a pedal powered
blender and local Yurok stories, to experiments investigating
the role of riparian vegetation and the ways in which human
choices impact the environment. |
| Adults
and children alike learn about the Natural sciences at Creek
Days. |
|
The theme of the event is interconnectedness; throughout the
day students learn that every place on earth is in a watershed
and everything that happens in a watershed affects the streams,
and the salmon!
Our hope
is that through education and hands on experience, these students
will become lifelong advocates for environmental conservation. |
Cummings
Creek Interpretive Trail
When
Cumming’s Creek Road was decommissioned and re-located
away from the riparian corridor, an interpretive trail and
restoration demonstration site was constructed in its place.
|
The
purpose of this trail is to provide an outdoor classroom for
students of all ages. Practitioners of salmon restoration
including high school and college students, the CCC, politicians,
agency personnel, and landowners investigating the possibilities
of salmon restoration will benefit from studying the results
of a successful community restoration effort in a small watershed.
If you
are interested in visiting the trail, it can be accessed via
Highway 36. Turn onto Cumming’s Creek Road and travel
1 mile to the trailhead, just after the first bridge spanning
Cumming’s Creek. Parking is limited to available turnouts. |
|
|
| |
Interpretive
trail at Cumming's Creek |
|
Real
Science Connects Local Students |
|
Each
year the Watershed Stewards Members placed at ERWIG promote
watershed awareness in kindergarten though twelfth grade classrooms
by developing and presenting one day to six-week long environmental
curricula in local schools. The
six-week long courses begin with understanding a watershed
and investigate how the choices people and communities make
can affect our environment. Later classes cover habitat, salmon
life cycle, and anatomy. A highlight for all ages is the dissection
of an adult salmon donated from Pacific Lumber’s Anadromous
Fish Exhibit.
|
ERWIG
staff and ECO-prep students discuss salmon habitat on a field
trip to Bull Creek. |
|
|
Many of the classes are also raising salmon through a local
program called Salmon in the Classroom. Though this program,
schools are given incubators and salmon eggs, which they raise,
and watch grow through the spring. In May, the students will
release the salmon fry into local creeks and wish them luck
on their journey to the ocean.
The combination
of these two programs and ERWIG sponsored field trips gives
Humboldt County students the chance to investigate their local
eco-systems and develop an understanding and appreciation
for the environment.
|
| Landowner
Outreach |
|
 |
ERWIG also
hosts a variety of watershed improvement workshops covering
topics from re-vegetation to roads maintenance, organizes field
trips and community workdays, and helps facilitate local watershed
meetings.
Keep
an eye on our calendar to stay
informed of upcoming events! |
|
| |
Bill
Matson works with local landowners to build rails on the new
Cumming’s Creek bridge during a community work day. |
| |
|
To contact us:
Phone:
707-725-4317
Fax:
707-725-1086
Email:
info@ERWIG.org
|
|
|
ERWIG's
work and publications are made possible by funding from
the CA Department of Fish and Game SB 271 Fisheries Restoration
Grant.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
