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Girl Scout Kokanee Ambassador |
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Kokanee Ambassador - A Community Service Partnership for Service Unit 440 and the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Please have your Girl Scout Troop join the cause!!!
- Service Unit 440 has partnered with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife to educate and help the endangered Kokanee Salmon in the Sammamish Basin.
- Check the Service Unit Calendar for events in support of this program.
- Has a desire to spend time outdoors (or work on patch requirements indoors during rainy days)
- Has an interest in Sammamish area parks and streams and our local wildlife
- Looking to have a great time while supporting our community and wildlife
Kokanee Ambassador Patch Requirement (download a Word document here)
STEP 1. Spread the word about Lake Sammamish Kokanee Salmon (they exist, are important, are threatened and how to help) in your local community through one of the following ways.
PATCH DETAILS-
Cost- $2.00 per patch, troops outside Service Unit 440 can pick up or pay shipping.
Where to order: Email 440 Service Unit Manager at ServiceUnit440@gmail.com
- Classroom presentation and/or poster
- Write a letter to the editor in your local paper
- Write to a local elected official
- Start a sign or bumper sticker campaign
- Create a flyer to hand out to family and friends
- Have another creative idea to spread the word? Please do it and share, share, share!
- Complete the Kokanee Quest Geocaching Challenge
- Volunteer for a local habitat restoration event (invasive plant removal and/or native plantings)
- Find a live Kokanee Salmon and document it with a photo or video clip (best chances between mid-November and mid–January in Ebright or Zaccuse Creeks via the East Lake Sammamish Trail, Tibbets Creek, Lewis Creek or Laughing Jacobs creek (Hans Jensen Park))
- Complete a science research paper on Lake Sammamish Kokanee Salmon- Hey double dip and use it for school!
- Volunteer for a storm water public education activity (marking storm water drains, spread the word about better car washing practices, eco-friendly car washing practices).
- Be creative, think of and complete another activity that fosters learning about and/or helping the Kokanee and don’t forget to…Share!
PATCH DETAILS-
Cost- $2.00 per patch, troops outside Service Unit 440 can pick up or pay shipping.
Where to order: Email 440 Service Unit Manager at ServiceUnit440@gmail.com
General Kokanee Quest Information
For those confident in getting started without a training session.
General geocaching information
Participants should put together a strategy for completing the challenge in the most efficient way. From the order of caches to find to solving as many of the puzzles ahead of time. Several will require being on site to solve though.
Feel free to have contact Daniel Spencer at daniel_spencer@fws.gov of the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife if you have any issues. You can also look on the cache logs for any tips from previous “cachers” who might have ran into any difficulties.
Note: There will likely be more participants than geocaching.com accounts so it would be great for those logging their caches via geocaching.com (per cache site) to note how many people are in your groups. This will enable the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife can capture participant data.
General geocaching information
- The web site http://www.govlink.org/kokanee-quest/ provides: general background info, the passport pdf link (with cache map) and links to each of the nine cache pages on Geocaching.com.
- Geocaching apps, e.g. for smart phones, typically range from free - $5.00.
Participants should put together a strategy for completing the challenge in the most efficient way. From the order of caches to find to solving as many of the puzzles ahead of time. Several will require being on site to solve though.
Feel free to have contact Daniel Spencer at daniel_spencer@fws.gov of the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife if you have any issues. You can also look on the cache logs for any tips from previous “cachers” who might have ran into any difficulties.
Note: There will likely be more participants than geocaching.com accounts so it would be great for those logging their caches via geocaching.com (per cache site) to note how many people are in your groups. This will enable the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife can capture participant data.