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Dear Friends,

Part of monitoring restoration and recovery is keeping our office open and staffed! The pandemic has brought changes that can be seen in the masks we wear, the social distancing we maintain, and the surfaces we are constantly cleaning. Over the last several months, we have been battling another force of nature - the cold of winter.

Our current source of heat is an entourage of electrical heaters that are slightly temperamental and like to tease the breakers. When you walk into the lab and book room downstairs, you are somehow reminded of a walk-in refrigerator. What little heat we do produce passes through the single-pane windows that line three of the four upstairs walls. In fact, a bird broke one window last summer, and it remains covered with plastic.

While winter temperatures and wetness are predicted to be close to normal this year, the coldest periods are just now upon us, and our spring looks to be cooler than usual. That being said, paying rising electric bills is sure to continue into next winter unless something changes. We have researched our options in regard to heating and determined that a pellet stove would be the most cost effective and provide the best performance in heating both floors of the Tree House. We are asking for your help in raising $4,000 to cover the cost, installation, and fuel for a pellet stove for the Tree House.

Just as we are hoping to reduce electrical usage with the addition of a pellet stove, we are hoping to eliminate our sani-can service with the addition of a waterless compostable toilet. You may recall that during our 2020 Fall Event, Ebb & Flow, we hosted an online silent auction that included the following Fund-A-Need items: insulated windows, a compostable toilet, and a convection oven for drying sediment samples. Thank you to those supporters who contributed funds that are currently set aside for those specific needs! While the oven was fully funded, the windows and toilet are only half-funded, and we would greatly appreciate any donation to help support these specific needs.

Your contribution to our Winter Warming Fund will be directly linked to supporting the Stillwaters home for staff, interns, and volunteers alike. You simply choose the need you'd like to support and specify any dollar amount you can give. Or, if you prefer, you may simply choose to donate to the General Warming Fund to cover general operating costs of our nonprofit’s home base, such as ongoing fuel and supplies.

By supporting our Fund-A-Need campaign, not only you will receive a charitable tax deduction, you will know that you have supported our ongoing restoration and recovery efforts by keeping our office open, staffed, and warm!

Thank you from all of us at Stillwaters and our wildlife friends, too!

Terry Pereida; Administrative Director
For the Staff and Board

Thus, the question of why so many Sitka spruce in the salt marsh are dying intrigues us. Is it a sign of climate change? Is it saltwater encroachment that started with the 2012 culvert removal at the mouth of the estuary? Is it “drowning” from increased freshwater run-off as mature forest is cut in the watershed to make room for Kingston’s growth? Less salt-tolerant plants, such as cattails and soft-stemmed bulrushes, also appear to be increasing along the marsh edges and perhaps advancing into the marsh, supporting the idea that an increase in fresh water may be involved.

To better understand the reasons behind the Sitka spruce mortality and its implications for salt marsh recovery, Stillwaters will be surveying the size and health of Sitka spruce along the marsh edge and determining the quantity and salinity of surface water and pore water (water in the soil) around them. We are also planning a long-term experiment that you can participate in. Next spring we will plant 100 Sitka Spruce seedlings around the marsh edge, monitor their survival and growth over the years, and relate their successes and failures to the levels of inundation and salinity that each experiences.

You can take part in this experiment and help maintain the forest around the marsh. Please participate in Stillwaters’ Sitka Spruce Tree Drive. For every contribution of $50, we will plant a Sitka spruce seedling in either your name, or a name of someone you would like to honor. These trees, alive and dead, will enhance the salt marsh environment for generations to come and hopefully provide some insights into the changes to we are observing along the path to recovery for the lower Carpenter Creek watershed.

Thank you from all of us at Stillwaters and our wildlife friends, too!

Terry Pereida; Administrative Director

For the Staff and Board

P.S. – All Sitka Spruce Tree Drive sponsors will receive periodic reports on the project!

Just as we are hoping to reduce electrical usage with the addition of a pellet stove, we are hoping to eliminate our sani-can service with the addition of a waterless compostable toilet. You may recall that during our 2020 Fall Event, Ebb & Flow, we hosted an online silent auction that included the following Fund-A-Need items: insulated windows, a compostable toilet, and a convection oven for drying sediment samples. Thank you to those supporters who contributed funds that are currently set aside for those specific needs! While the oven was fully funded, the windows and toilet are only half-funded, and we would greatly appreciate any donation to help support these specific needs.

Your contribution to our Winter Warming Fund will be directly linked to supporting the Stillwaters home for staff, interns, and volunteers alike. You simply choose the need you'd like to support and specify any dollar amount you can give. Or, if you prefer, you may simply choose to donate to the General Warming Fund to cover general operating costs of our nonprofit’s home base, such as ongoing fuel and supplies.

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STILLWATERS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER

26059 BARBER CUTOFF ROAD

KINGSTON, WA 98346

(360) 297-1226

info@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org

Stillwaters is a non-profit 501c3 organization and all donations are tax-deductible.

Stillwaters is a non-profit 501c3 organization and all donations are tax-deductible.