Come to a Cayou Cove Restoration Work Party

From People for Puget Sound

People For Puget Sound will be partnering with local landowners Bob and Meg Connor to conduct three work parties in March 2011 at the Cayou Valley Lagoon in Deer Harbor. Join us on one or more of the following days:

• Wednesday, March 16: 10 AM – 2 PM
• Saturday, March 19: 10 AM – 2 PM
• Sunday, March 27: 1 PM – 4 PM

Volunteers are needed to install native plants, remove invasive weeds, and clean up litter at the largest estuary on Orcas Island. Come and be a part of this local habitat restoration project! Work is underway to remove fish passage barriers and restore the shoreline of the Cayou Valley Lagoon. This site is private property, so take advantage of the opportunity to see this beautiful estuary and help bring it back to health.

To sign up or ask questions, contact Rachel Benbrook at  rbenbrook@pugetsound.org or (360)230-1353.

Beside the work at Cayou Valley Lagoon, other work parties will take place this month at Willow Creek in Edmonds, at Union Slough between Everett and Marysville, at Maury Island, and at Cooper Point in Olympia. Benbrook says, “Get out, get dirty, feel good.”

For more information about People for Puget Sound events, including environmental education workshops, April 6 annual luncheon and Round the Sound voyages in May and June, go to www.pugetsound.org

Thanks for Barbara Rosenkotter and Liz Illg