Community Involvement

Community Involvement at Glenwood Springs

Glenwood Springs provides a venue for hands-on education and community involvement and a source of data and information about salmon biology, fisheries, and ecology: 

• Each year, hundreds of participants in the salmon education program at Moran State Park's Camp Moran Environmental Learning Center tour the Glenwood Springs facility and clip fins for our yearling chinook program.
• Facility manager Mike O'Connell regularly hosts educational tours for visiting schoolkids from the Orcas Island and Friday Harbor school districts, as well as traveling to their schools to speak. 
• Both YMCA Camp Orkila and Camp Moran have an annual staff-training day in salmon biology held at the hatchery. 
• Each spring and fall, 75 to 100 participants in the Skagit Valley Community College Elderhostel visit weekly for six weeks.
• Mike regularly holds a "Hatchery Open House" in September for local residents interested in the facility. 
• LLTK and YMCA Camp Orkila jointly manage the King Salmon Stewardship Institute, a five-day program for high-school-age students, funded by a grant from the Bullitt Foundation, that takes place both at Orkila and at Glenwood Springs Hatchery. 
• Among the many recent visitors to the hatchery were Phil Anderson, Director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; journalist Hedrick Smith; and members of the San Juan County Marine Resources Committee, Washington State University Beach Watchers, and the Friday Harbor Whale Museum Naturalist Training Program
   

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