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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The continuing 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.

• We would like to thank Troutlodge, Inc. for again donating rainbow trout eggs for distribution to Yakima Basin schools as part of the 2007-08 Salmon (er, trout) in the Classroom program. Trout eggs provide another option for teachers and students who would like to observe egg and fry development both earlier and later in the school year than our usual salmon egg supply. Thanks, Troutlodge!



• Sincere thanks to the Central Washington Safari Club International for donating 3 "Safari in a Box" kits for classroom teachers to use.



• Thank you to the Agriculture Research Station staff for organizing and leading a great tour of your facility for Yakima Gear-Up students.



• Thanks to the Prosser Hatchery & Juvenile salmon facility, the Cle Elum Hatchery, and the Klickitat Hatchery for giving so freely of your time for student field trips!



• Sincere appreciation to Central Washington Insurance Company in Selah for donating 48 pair of polarized sunglasses for use by students in viewing spawning salmon!



• Thank you Yakama Juice for donating juice for our teacher trainings.



• 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.




• We would like to thank Suncadia Resort for generously providing the portable toilets at the salmon spawning field site. These facilities are greatly appreciated by the hundreds of students, teachers, and chaperones who participated in the salmon spawning field trips during September and October.





• Thank you Cowlitz Hatchery & staff, WDFW, for the carcasses for this year's salmon dissections! Also, thanks to Shields in Yakima for donating the bags for storing the carcass sets, and John McGowan, WDFW, for the loan of the truck to pick them up in.