How to Get Involved
To achieve our goals we need your voice, your involvement, and your ideas. Get started today!
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Public Boat and Kayak Tours
- 2010 Summer Community Kayak Tour series:
Click here to download community kayak flyer and information.
 Tours are a great way to see the river up close. All equipment, instructions, and guiding are provided. Tours are $40 per person. Children under 18 must be accompanied by parent/guardian. We depart from the South Park Neighborhood's Duwamish Waterway Park (7900 10th Avenue South). Space is limited and first come-first served.
- Tour Dates:
July 28th, 5:30-8:30pm
August 4th 5:30-8:30pm: National Wildlife Federation August 25th 5:30-8:30-pm: Seattle Aquarium
September 8th 5:30-8:30pm: National Wildlife Federation
RSVP: Contact Alki Kayak Tours: 206-953-0237
Scholarships are available for community members, please contact DRCC/TAG.
- In 2009, thanks to the generosity of Seattle Aquarium Society and Alki Kayak Tours, we were able to provide free, or pay-what-you-can, tours to 25 people who wouldn't have been able to participate otherwise. Nearly 120 participants saw the River up close during the 6 evening kayak tours, viewed habitat restoration areas, ongoing Superfund cleanup sites, riverfront neighborhoods, and wildlife!
- Next Public Boat Tour: TBA
DRCC/TAG and guests guide a two hour tour of
the Duwamish River Superfund Site. Learn about the natural and human history of the Duwamish Valley, environmental health and (in)justice, and the future of Seattle's very own Superfund cleanup site on this guided tour aboard the Admiral Pete power boat. Tours happen rain or shine. Directions to boat dock will be emailed out to all RSVP guests.
Our boat charter company, Kitsap Harbor Tours, charges us $700 for a 2-hour tour. The boats are covered and can accomodate up to 60 people. Contact us for more information. Free or low-cost tours are available by request for social, environmental justice, community organizations, or other non-profit groups.
Also of note: In his free time, Captain Ed of Kitsap Harbor Tours and his wife run Isla Holbox Spay-Neuter program, which provides free basic animal care including animal sterilization to communities in Mexico. Way to go, Ed!
- Kayak Tours: Our kayak rental company, Alki Kayak Tours, helps DRCC/TAG organize and guide educational kayak tours of the Duwamish, including our summer Community Kayak series.
Alki Kayak Tours is one of the 2009 Mayor's Small Business Award winners, way to go, Greg, Kara and Alki staff!
Tours included information on water quality monitoring and how to report suspicious discharges to the Dept of Ecology and Puget Soundkeeper Alliance; participants helped collect water samples from the South Park waterfront and discharging stormdrains for the Sound Citizen program.
Our kayak tours don't require kayaking experience. DRCC/TAG educational tours cost $40/person, for all equipment, gear and instructions, with scholarships available - contact DRCC/TAG.
Visit Alki Kayak Tours at Seacrest dock on Harbor Avenue and rent kayaks, boats, bikes, in-line skates, and more!
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DRCC/TAG also offers Presentations and Field Visits
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Volunteer
Would you like to support DRCC/TAG with your time?
- volunteer at the DRCC/TAG booth or table at an upcoming event (training and information provided)
- help us take flyers or posters around to area businesses to promote our events
- help us organize and produce community events, such as Duwamish Alive, the Duwamish River Festival, or our popular tours.
- organize a group of friends, family, or co-workers to 'adopt' a Duwamish shoreline area to regularly remove trash or invasive plants
- train to become our volunteer-coordinator
- train to become our office assitant/book-keeper
- If you have other ideas for how get involved, please let us know!
- Contact DRCC/TAG by phone at 206-954-0218 / email
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Service Learning
DRCC/TAG builds its capacity through students' service learning projects. Rather than a typical internship, DRCC/TAG offers hands-on community-based learning opportunities that take your education to the next level. Contact DRCC/TAG to see how you can get involved.
- Spring 2010 UW College of the Built Environment Masters Studio, focusing on 'activating' the Duwamish Vision, through pairing students with community stakeholders to create design concept drawings for future Duwamish projects.
- Our American Generation, is a youth-run think tank that facilitates research and offers policy proposals concerning social justice issues crucial to the future of our country. Click here to read their Environmental Justice issue, featuring Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice, and the Duwamish Tribe.
- University of Washington's Community Environment and Planning program was instrumental to assist DRCC/TAG with the 2008-2009 Green-Duwamish Watershed map and Duwamish Vision project. Rose Thornton was the design coordinator for the Duwamish Vision maps.
DRCC/TAG's partnership with CEP continues in 2010 with students working on a variety of projects to 'activate the Duwamish Vision.'
- Seattle University's Religion and Ecology class service learning projects:
- Tyler Locher, a serior at Big Picture High School produced a brochure about Duwamish River Ospreys and environmental health.
- Brandusa Bularca's 2009 UW Masters in Architecture project, "Manufacturing Fields: Man-Making and Re-making of Seattle Metropolitain Industries," focusing on the Duwamish River and Harbor Island eco-industrial design. (link to free download or pay for paperback book.)
- University of Oregon's 2009 Landscape and Landscape Architecture program Urban Design Program.
- Cari Simson, who is now DRCC/TAG's Program Manager, began working with DRCC/TAG in 2005 while she was getting her Masters at Antioch University - Seattle, and helped host a community 'visioning' workshop with the Georgetown neighborhood in March of 2005. Read her thesis, "Habitat Restoration and the Cultivation of Sustainable Habits," on Duwamish River community participatory design and public involvement.
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In-Kind Contributions
In-Kind contributions are very appreciated! Some of the businesses who currently support DRCC/TAG through in-kind donations: Seattle Aquarium Society, Salish Seas, Environmental Coalition of South Seattle, Field Roast Grain Meat Company, CleanScapes, Metropolitan Market, Trader Joes, Alki Kayak Tours, Global Diving and Salvage, REI, and many others.
To learn more, please contact DRCC/TAG at 206-954-0218 / email
DRCC/TAG is in need of the following items:
- a 10x10 pop-up canopy in good working condition, for our outdoor events.
- gift certificates/gift cards to use as raffle prizes at public events
- prepared food or snacks/beverages for our meetings and workshops
- a single or double kayak to add to our fleet
- screen printing
- ability to test water and soil samples through a certified lab
- printing/copying, or graphic design
- a working laptop, 3-year old or less (Mac or PC) to run email, Office programs, and InDesign
If you have other ideas about how YOU can get involved, please contact DRCC/TAG at 206-954-0218 / email
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