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Our Purpose:
To monitor, report, and educate on the environmental human impact on estuaries; to build a volunteer base to service our projects; and to create a cooperative effort between our organization and other interested groups and agencies to accomplish this purpose.
Funding:
Greenfleet has received $100,000 from Base Camps of America (BCA) towards the administration of this project. BCA has also pledged an additional $150,000 from the sale of its real estate assets during this 5-year period.
Objectives:
We will begin by studying life and living conditions below, on, and above the surface of the three estuaries close to home. Then we will collect equipment and train ourselves to screen for dissolved oxygen, acidification and other water quality problems that we now know exist in Hood Canal and Puget Sound. We will use the Quilcene Estuary as training grounds then broaden outward to Tarboo Estuary, Dosewallips Estuary, Hood Canal, and Puget Sound. Covering this broad area will allow our volunteers opportunities to monitor, report, and educate to their heart's content — and literally get our feet wet.
Another objective in progress is the "greening" of the small fleet of vessels that have been volunteered for this program. Included will be the publication of online reports to educate the public on how watercrafts can be modified to reduce impact on our waterways.
Also already begun is the reporting of observations made on Quilcene Bay.
9/6/09
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