We're asking you to BE A PART OF SOMETHING REALLY BIG.

Join the biggest single day of philanthropy in Seattle's history!  GiveBIG is a community-wide giving challenge created by The Seattle Foundation with matching funds to stretch the size of your donation to us.

TODAY ONLY! Donate to the Friends of the Cedar River Watershed between 7:00 am and midnight via our page on The Seattle Foundation's Giving Center.

Why is it so important to GiveBIG?

With your help, we have quadrupled our reach over the last five years, but we are facing economic challenges.  Our effective, popular, and award-winning programs provide solutions that are critical to the health of our watershed and ultimately Puget Sound.  Through your donations, we restore, educate, and and empower people to be better watershed stewards every day.   

Please give what you can today.

You could also help us win another chunk of change! 

Win a Golden Ticket!  Every hour, one donor's gift will generate a "golden ticket." This ticket is worth an extra $1,000 gift to The Friends. 

Student Presentation

What is Watershed College?

It is an intensive seminar in which students get to solve real problems with expert mentors guiding the learning process.

For three intensive days, right after school gets out for the summer, 25 high school students meet with science and sustainability experts to pore over piles of data collected from our online survey process. Surveys are completed each year by our partners in the 28 cities and 13 school districts of the Cedar River/Lake Washington watershed.   

This data will drive the creation of the 2010 Watershed Report.
 Premiere screening: September 8th, 6:00 pm, Seattle REI store.

Contact peter@cedarriver.org to learn more.

How can you tell a wild Chinook from a hatchery Chinook? What are spawning colors? How do our daily actions affect salmon? Find out answers to these questions and more on July 23, July 30 and August 6, 11-3 at the Hiram Chittenden Locks in Ballard. Volunteer naturalists from the Cedar River Salmon Journey program and the Seattle Aquarium's Beach Naturalist program will be talking to visitors about salmon and watershed health as sockeye and Chinook enter the Locks on their journey home. Come be eye to eye with a fish!

            
To find out more, or to learn more about volunteering as a naturalist, contact charlotte@cedarriver.org 

*program is funded in part by a grant from the King Conservation District

Knotweed 101: Together We Can Control this Noxious Weed!

Join the Stewardship In Action team for an in-depth look into knotweed and learn about free services offered to landowners in Renton and Maple Valley to remove this destructive weed.  Trained treatment technicians will present on why knotweed is damaging for property owners, fish, and wildlife as we look at the options available to control infestations along the Cedar River and throughout King County. 

The workshop will provide an opportunity for people to get hands-on experience with treatment tools and techniques from experts. Cedar River residents will be able to coordinate, neighbor-to-neighbor, on knotweed control and   services available to replace infestations with beautiful and healthy native plants.  

Knotweed 101

Cedar Grange: 22531 SE 218th

Maple Valley 1pm ~ 4pm

Contact rebecca@cedarriver.org to learn more.

*program funded by a grant from the EPA