Bus Reimbusement Form
For Public Schools attending an IslandWood-facilitated or Fauntleroy salmon release, you may get full or partial bus reimbursement. You must fill out a pre-approval form here at least 2 weeks prior to your trip. Please note, this form goes to Seattle Public Utilities, who manages bus reimbursements.
Online Release Form – To be used by schools that DO NOT use SIS-Seattle support on release day.
WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE REQUIRES REPORTING THE NUMBER OF FRY RELEASED, RELEASE DATE AND RELEASE SITE. The release site is the one called out on the permit unless a change was authorized.
Access the Release Form here: Salmon in the Schools – Seattle.
Additional Field Trips or Guest Lessons
Issaquah Salmon Hatchery – tour the hatchery where many schools’ eggs come from!
Mountains to Sound Forests and Fins program – site linked includes great short learning videos, as well as a link to register for the in-person Forests and Fins program.
Nature Vision offers in school and field trip programs related to salmon, stream and aquatic ecology, and water quality.
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association offers hands-on, arts-based environmental S.T.E.A.M. lessons for K-5th graders for schools in West Seattle.
FALL – Carkeek Salmon Search – Programs November through December
The program includes a salmon dissection, a salmon life cycle game “Hooks and Ladders,” and a creek walk to look for salmon.
Fall field trips generally run from early November until winter break in December, with a break for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Registration will be tiered, starting in mid September:
- SISS schools with 37% or greater low income.
- remaining SISS public schools.
- all SISS schools.
