The Charlotte Marin Foundation awarded the Mount St. Helens Institute a $5,000 grant to continue the Youth Stream Team program.
The program, a partnership between the institute, the Vancouver Police Activities League and the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, is a summerlong environmental education project that engages urban youth in restoration work on rivers. Teens in the program learn about the effects of resource degradation and climate change on rivers, as well as restoration strategies.
More than 50 youth have dedicated 1,800 hours of service to the program in 2009 and 2010. Their work helped restore salmon and steelhead spawning habitat on the East Fork Lewis River and the Muddy River.
For move information, visit http://www.mshinstitute.org.
