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Home schooling happens! Kids and parents go to where the lessons are; February 23, 2017.

A plucky group of homeschooling parents, kids, and supportive siblings scheduled a visit to the Les Malmgren Imprint Pond at Carkeek Park on Thursday, February 23, 2017.

On Monday, January 30th, the Suquamish Tribe’s Fisheries truck brought 35,000 Chum salmon fry to the Imprint Pond at Carkeek Park. Fish are being fed 3 times a day, 7 days a week. While the fish are here, they eventually become imprinted with the mineral and chemical smell/memory of the park’s Piper’s Creek Watershed. This process insures that they have the best chance of returning to their new home waters in 3-5 years as spawning adults.

Because of a job well done last year by a group of 14 middle and high school summer day campers, a possible disaster was narrowly averted this week.

Every Spring CWCAP receives salmon eggs and salmon fry from the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek Salmon Hatchery.