Woodland Park Zoo is looking for
volunteers who are interested in being part of the Coexisting with Carnivores program. These volunteers will
form teams that will work to help their neighborhoods coexist more easily with
carnivores. Teams will decide what are the most important issues related to
carnivore conflict in their neighborhoods, and what they think are the most
effective solutions. Woodland Park Zoo and the City of Issaquah will
provide support and help for teams to learn about carnivore behavior,
brainstorm carnivore conflict prevention measures, and eventually enact
their solutions.
Each team can decide what
level of commitment they want to give, whether it is a short meeting every two
months, or a long one every other week. Teams can also be groups that already
exist and want to keep working together, so you can participate as a group of
friends or a club you’re already a part of.
If you are interested in being a
part of such a team, or simply learning more about the program, we hope you
will be able to make it to one of our first Coexisting with Carnivores team
meetings. We have planned three meetings in three different locations, with the
hope that everyone interested will be able to make it to one (note: please
only come to one of the meetings! They will all be roughly the same).
Thursday, October 11
7pm to 8pm
Rogue Ales Issaquah Brewhouse
35 W Sunset Way, Issaquah, WA
98027
Saturday, October 13
10:30am to 11:30am
Blakely Hall
Issaquah Highlands
2550 NE Park Dr, Issaquah, WA
98029
Saturday, October 27
3pm to 4pm
Issaquah Library Meeting Room
10 W Sunset Way, Issaquah, WA
98027
At these meetings, we will be
brainstorming the most pressing carnivore-related issues in your neighborhoods,
beginning to think about potential solutions to these issues, and discussing
the best way to proceed as part of these teams.
To RSVP to a meeting,
please email
Dakota.spear@zoo.org.
RSVP is not required to attend, but we do hope to provide enough snacks
for everyone who comes! If you cannot make it to any of these meeting dates,
but still would like to be part of a carnivore action team, please also email
Dakota.spear@zoo.org to be added to the
team email list.