Community Involvement

The Model Watershed Project hosts an Earth Day Clean-Up Event each year, as well as on-sites visits. The GHC Model Watershed Project (MWP) supports water quality testing and is a resource for classes not only at the college, but for the surrounding school districts. Teachers use this site to enhance lessons on salmon life cycles, ecosystems, natural resources, geology, and water quality monitoring. The GHC MWP has a collection of curriculum resources in the John Spellman Library for instructors to borrow.

GHC Student & clean-up volunteer: Adrian Vriezena, GHC World Class Scholars & Clean-up volunteers: Lauren Goldberg, Matt Toothman, Tanner Worth, Allison Prince, & MWP Coordinator: Hannah Merrill.		OPEN HOUSE, (6/12/99). Harold 'Jim' Enrico reads one of his poems to the attendees.

Come to GHC Model Watershed Project and visit. Take a self-guided tour around the two miles of trail surrounding Lake Swano. To have a GHC MWP Slide Show Presentation at your school or organization call 360/538-4179. To visit the GHC John M. Smith Aquaculture Center call 360/538-4183, to be sure it is open. No appointment is necessary to come to visit and enjoy the trails around Lake Swano. While visiting GHC's Model Watershed, it is important to remember to: avoid damage to plants and erosion by staying on the trail; carry out all your trash; leave only footprints; move quietly, observe more; keep pets on a leash; and no unauthorized wheeled vehicles. The Model Watershed Project is an example of good stewardship in which people can become partners in taking care of their community, the water, the Earth, and in doing so, of each other.

Grays Harbor Poggie Club members volunteer to install interpretive sign bases (5/22/99).