...empowering teachers to lead their students to know and improve local natural resources

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The success of the Yakima Basin Environmental Education Program is due in no small measure to the many organizations, agencies, and individuals who support the activities of the Program through materials, monetary, and in-kind donations.

Thanks to Don Watts & Swiftwater Cellars for funding YBEEP's salmon spawning presentations for Yakima Basin schools for Fall 2009.

Thanks to Kittitas Conservation Trust, Kittitas County Trout Unlimited, Pacific Power, Roy Farms, Yakama Forest Products, Steve George, and Charlie De La Chappelle for bus funding for 8 schools to participate in the salmon spawning field trips.

We would like to thank Cle Elum Kiwanis for generously providing the portable toilets at the salmon spawning field site. These facilities are greatly appreciated by the hundreds of students, teachers, and chaperons who participate in the salmon spawning field trips.

Thanks to the Cle Elum Hatchery for giving so freely of your time for student field trips!

Thanks to the City of Selah and Washington Department of Ecology for funding Stormwater Education for the Selah School District students and teachers for the 2009-10 school year.

Thanks to West Valley School District for funding Salmon in the Classroom for West Valley students for the 2009-10 school year.

Thank you Priest Rapids Hatchery & staff, WDFW, for the carcasses for 2009-10 salmon dissections and salmon eggs for 57 Salmon in the Classroom tanks!! Also, thanks to WDFW for the loan of the truck to pick the carcasses up in.

Thanks to Jon Merz, Department of Ecology, for plant identification expertise; and Dan Church, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, for GPS Mapping expertise for Selah Intermediate student 2009-10 field studies.

The Program uses posters, booklets, and other materials for distribution to teachers and students provided free of charge by a variety of organizations, including: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; Alaska Fish and Game Department; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Washington Department of Ecology; King County; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Bonneville Power Administration. Thank you to each of these organizations.