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Land Trust's StreamFest Mixes Learning with Fun

Veteran fish restoration volunteer Dick Goin, who helped start North Olympic Land Trust’s StreamFest, is returning to the Ennis Arbor Farm event as a walk leader for the first time in eight years.
 
When Goin and Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe habitat biologist Mike McHenry led nature walks at the first StreamFest, in 2000, the Land Trust had no plans to make StreamFest an annual event. They just wanted the public to learn more about the Land Trust by offering an opportunity to see a property being protected permanently by the nonprofit organization.
 
But Goin remembers being so enthusiastic about the interest walk participants displayed that he told Land Trust leaders, “We’ve got to keep this going.”
 
They did, expanding StreamFest’s purpose to helping participants learn more about enjoying and caring for all special qualities important to the North Olympic Peninsula. They enlisted other organizations, governmental agencies, businesses and individuals to help. Read More...

Posted: August 21, 2008