[event] Puget Soundkeeper Alliance: 10th Annual “The Sweep”

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Puget Soundkeeper Alliance’s annual cleanup is coming up. Get in a kayak (or boat) and help clean up Lake Union, Portage Bay, and Union Bay! 

Saturday, May 19th 2012 from 8:30 am – 1:30 pm

Lake Union Park
860 Terry Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109

Contact Barbara Owens at barbara@pugetsoundkeeper.org for more information or click here to get the details.

[course] Jump into a sea kayak for wild learning with the Tatoosh School!

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 6 weeks. 8 credits. Southeast Alaska. 200 miles & tents on the beach. 

June 25 – August 3, 2012  –Ketchikan Launch

August 6 – September 13, 2012  –Wrangell Launch

Explore the website for course descriptions and more, click here to apply,

and like us on Facebook for updates from the office and the field.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with priority given to those received before March 1.

 

On an expedition with Tatoosh School, you’ll sea kayak, camp in the backcountry, and explore Alaska while earning eight credits in ecology and policy. You’ll learn about the landscape of the Inside Passage, from why totem poles are carved to how a mountainside of timber was cut, and what the mountain looks like now. You will watch salmon swim upstream, far into the forest that their bodies build. Why are there five different species of salmon in the Pacific? You’ll learn that too. You and fellow students will forge lasting friendships, gain leadership skills to build on, and leave charting new adventures.