Student Programs that Build Environmental Stewardship & Conservation Ethics!

2011 Student Tree Planting Report can be found here!

Since we began our tree planting program in 2001, our annual youth tree planting campaign has evolved as an outgrowth of our ‘salmon friendly lawn sign’ campaign. This campaign was a way for us to help enhance salmon streams, as well as offer local elementary school students a chance to learn about ecological stewardship, to enjoy fieldwork, and to actively reduce their carbon footprint in real-time during the Spring 'Earth Day' timeframe. In recent years, our students have been able to plant as many as 2,000 trees annually along Allen and QuilCeda Creek tributaries, a goal that we continue to hope to beat each subsequent year!

These ongoing youth tree planting projects have come together in a way that blends classroom instruction with practical, in-the-field environmental stewardship work by young Grade 4 and 5 students, who are also at a prime age to understand and embrace environmental conservation values. Riparian habitat restoration work like this also provides significant public awareness among our student volunteers and their parent chaperones, and the ongoing study on the planted sites by these students continue to teach conservation and ecology years after the tree planting projects themselves have occurred - according to our teacher partners, many students from prior years’ efforts continue to visit the trees they have planted, and continue to express a sense of ownership and stewardship over these sites.

Our youth tree planting projects involved native species only, and have, since we began the effort, resulted in the planting of over 12,000 seedlings in total, with a survival rate of upwards of 75%! If you’re interested in learning more about our student tree planting projects, feel free to contact us at (425) 879-4676 or email info@projectseawolf.org. Thanks for caring for the earth.

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Project SeaWolf, Post Office Box 929, Marysville, Washington 98270