Surface Water Management Division
Watershed Education Program
Program Description
Surface Water Management's Watershed Education Program helps citizens understand the natural processes and adopt watershed- and salmon-friendly actions such as: planting native vegetation along stream banks, teaching others in their community about water and fish issues, collecting and sharing data, rai$ing fund$, understanding land use and regulatory processes as they relate to aquatic habitat, water quality, urban drainage and river flooding. Events offered by the Watershed Education Program are designed to help citizens protect and restore aquatic habitat and water quality, and deal with urban drainage problems and river flooding.
Want to learn more about local watersheds and salmon?
Attend one of our classes, workshops, seminars, or watershed tours. Educational programs include such topics as becoming a watershed keeper, native plant stewardship, streamside living, salmon and other subjects of interest.
Are you an educator?
Looking for a guest speaker to come into your classroom?
Check out our menu of fish and water lessons.
Attend a teacher workshop to get ideas for integrating concepts related to pollution prevention, aquatic habitat protection and restoration, neighborhood drainage, and managing river flooding.
Need money for a field trip? Alumni of our classes and workshops are eligible for transportation grant funding.
Click here to find out more: Field Trip Grant Information & Application.
Apply now for the 2009-10 school year. Applications are accepted throughout the year.
Need help planning a fish or water unit? Thinking of using salmon, water, or native plants as a theme to integrate the core content and cover multiple Essential Academic Learning Requirements and Grade Level Expectations? Contact Suzi Wong Swint at 425-388-6476.
Examples of elementary school projects that Surface Water Management staff have helped with:
Challenger Elementary's Native Plant Interpretive Trail
Salmon Watch in the Classroom
Want to help salmon and improve your watershed?
You can help improve water quality by becoming a lake monitor,
joining Friends of Cemetery Creek or Friends of Quilceda & Allen Creeks, stenciling storm drains, or helping to solve water pollution problems. You can make a difference to aquatic habitat by helping at the next native plant event, or becoming a Salmon Watcher. In the urban areas you can help fix localized drainage problems if you file a drainage report. If there is a threat of river flooding you can help by joining a sand bagging crew.
Visit this site to get connected to dozens of other water resource sites.
Interested in attending informational public meetings?
Visit this site to check out committee meeting schedules, see agendas, and review past meeting minutes for the following: the Stillaguamish Clean Water District Board, the Stillaguamish Implementation & Review Committee, the Snohomish Basin Salmon Recovery Forum, and the Snohomish County Marine Resources Committee.
Want to advertise your event?
If you are planning an educational offering or salmon recovery event that would be of interest to others in Snohomish County, you are invited to submit information about your event (sponsoring organization, contact person, and daytime phone number) to Suzi Wong Swint at 425-388-6476.
Would you like to receive notice of upcoming events?
Is your family, community organization, or non-profit group interested in working on watershed- and salmon-friendly activities?
To begin receiving our salmon and native plant newsletters and event e-mail notices (newsletters are typically sent quarterly and e-mails go out approximately once a month) just submit your mailing address or e-mail address to Suzi Wong Swint at 425-388-6476 or
Surface Water Management
3000 Rockefeller Avenue, MS#607
Everett, WA 98201
Words To Inspire Watershed Keepers
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
--Margaret Mead