The mission of the Foundation is to teach people to become stewards of their watersheds. That mission is carried out by conducting Streamkeeper Academy training events for all ages, producing environmental education materials that are distributed nationally and internationally, and providing local communities with stream and wetland restoration technical assistance.

Description:
To increase our capacity to carry out our mission, we are building the first regional environmental learning facility in the Pacific NW with stream and wetland ecology & fish and wildlife habitat restoration as its central themes. That place is called the NW Stream Center (NWSC). It is located on a 20-acre site in Snohomish County's Mc Collum Park. Once complete, it will serve 45,000 visitors a year who will enjoy Streamkeeper Academy events at the Visitors Building and take self guided tours through forests and wetlands next to a small salmon stream called North Creek.

In 2007, over 30 businesses are joining together to help build an outdoor Trout Stream Exhibit at the NWSC. And the Adopt-A-Stream Foundation is launching a $2million campaign to complete the NW Stream Center with a mile of raised boardwalk interpretive trails, a forest canopy viewing tower, and a salmon habitat viewing platform next to North Creek. Once those features are in place, the NWSC will open to the public

History:
The Adopt-A-Stream Foundation (AASF) was founded in 1985 as a non-profit environmental education and habitat restoration organization. We have conducted Streamkeeper Field Training events for audiences in WA, OR, MT, ID, CA, NV, and BC Canada. We have reached audiences nationally and internationally with our publications that include: Adopting A Stream: A NW Handbook, Adopting A Wetland: A NW Guide, and the Streamkeepers Field Guide: Watershed Inventory and Stream Monitoring Methods. In addition, we produced an award winning video called the Streamkeeper that stars Bill Nye, "the Science Guy." During the last few years AASF's small professional team of ecologist and technicians completed over 60 stream restoration projects in local watersheds. This year we are focusing much our efforts protecting and enhancing streams in SW Snohomish County and the Snohomish River basin.

Contact people:

Tom Murdoch, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Lori Powlas, Office Manager, (phone), (email) Tom Hardy, Ecologist, (phone), (email)

Address:

600 - 128th Street SE Everett, WA 98208 (See a map)

Directions:

To reach our facility from I-5 north or south, take Exit 186. Proceed east on 128th Street SE 1/2 mile to McCollum Park. Please note that there are no signs for Adopt-A-Stream or McCollum Park. Instead, use the "WSU Cooperative. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: McCollum Park in Everett, 3 minute walk

Overall Experience   
We were made to feel very special and appreciated.

Sue at Adopt-A-Stream was wonderful to work with. She made us feel welcome, valued and appreciated. We supported the bulk mailing process on a weekly basis. My participant was given a sense of accomplishment, self-worth, and an opportunity to gain job skills posted on September 9, 2002