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Seasonal Employment Opportunities With SCAAre you looking to work outdoors and give back to the community and the earth? Check out our seasonal employment page. SCA Northwest Celebrates Earth DayEarth Day was celebrated this year in true Seattle sprit, accompanied by cold, drizzly weather. But it wasn’t only the rain that poured in, over 150 volunteers came out and endured hail storms to pay their respects to Mother Earth at the Washington Park Arboretum on Saturday, April 19th - making the SCA event the largest Earth Day event in Seattle this year.
After hearing speeches from students and others, volunteers divided into groups covering different areas of the Arboretum. Seattle’s Mayor Greg Nickels made a guest appearance and even took a lesson on tool safety as well as visiting nearly all ten work sites where volunteers were removing invasives, mulching, and planting new plants.
Over 750 service hours were completed A big thanks goes out to all who were involved and made Earth Day 2008 such a success! Summer Volunteer Opportunities for Local High School Students
FREE canoeing, hiking, backpacking and camping trips in Washington State National Parks! Additional information and application. SCA Receives Highest Honor from the Department of InteriorThe SCA, Mount Rainier National Park along with The Northwest Storm Damage Recovery Coalition has just been awarded the Department of Interior's prestigious 2008 Cooperative Conservation Award, the Department's highest award, honoring private citizens and organizational partners who provide significant benefit to Interior's programs and mission. The honor is being awarded for the huge volunteer recovery effort following massive storms that damaged trails, roads and infrastructure at Mount Rainier National Park in late 2006. On April 21st, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne will officially present the award to the coalition partners in Washington D.C. The Mount Rainier Recovery Initiative, led by the Student Conservation Association, worked with park supervisors to identify and prepare recovery projects, placed a 14-member Conservation Corps within the park, and recruited and led additional teams of public volunteers. More than 700 people from all over the country participated, rebuilding the Wonderland Trail, restoring habitats, campgrounds and historic structures, carrying supplies to backcountry project locations, patrolling trails and assisting park visitors. The recovery initiative was part of a larger volunteer effort involving 1,724 people who contributed 84,038 hours of service at Mount Rainier National Park in 2007, an effort valued at almost $1.6 million. The Coalition includes the Student Conservation Association, Washington Trails Association, the National Parks Conservation Association, Washington's National Park Fund and The Mountaineers. SCA's Mount Rainier Recovery InitiativePlanning has started for the second year of SCA's Mount Rainier Recovery Initiative. This year's plans include engaging more members of the public through volunteer opportunities including a new training program. Learn more about this year's planned activities. Boeing has given SCA and other organizations a grant to help fund work at Mount Rainier National Park and other national parks in Washington State. Learn more about Boeing's commitment to our community. Mount Rainier Ambassadors Report From the FieldThree high school members of SCA's Conservation Leadership Corps are setting out to Mount Rainier National Park to provide much-needed service and bring the story home. Want to learn what it takes to heal a storm-ravaged mountain? Mount Rainier Ambassadors Laura Bogar, Jaya Ghosh, and Julia Sievert will be reflecting on this and more at http://www.thesca.org/seattle_newsevents/. Washington State Senate Honors SCA
SCA's Mount Rainier Recovery InitiativeOver an unseasonably warm two-day period in November of 2006, some areas of the northwest forest received as much as 18 inches of rainfall. In Mount Rainier National Park, cascades of rain and melted water from snow and glaciers produced unprecedented damage. SCA is proud to be leading the Mount Rainier Recovery Initiative, a coalition of organizations, groups, and individuals committed to the restoration of this icon of the northwest. Learn more about this exciting program. SCA’s Northwest Regional Office
This regional office oversees SCA activity in the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and in British Columbia, Canada. SCA’s origins are in the Northwest, where volunteers were placed for the first time in Olympic and Grand Teton National Parks during the summer of 1957. After SCA’s headquarters relocated from Vashon Island in Puget Sound in 1976, we have had a steady presence in this vital area of our country, where twelve SCA employees currently work from our office in the heart of Seattle’s International District.
SCA Seattle’s Conservation Leadership Corps
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The Washington State Senate paid tribute to the SCA for its fifty year legacy of accomplishments in the state of Washington and nationwide to help restore and maintain America’s natural beauty. The Senate officially acknowledged SCA’s contributions through its passage of Senate Resolution 8644. Read this story at 
volunteer projects, CLC teaches leadership, teamwork, backcountry and wilderness skills while students complete over 100 hours of service learning. Participants have a great time hiking, camping, snow shoeing and getting to know students from over ten high-schools in the Seattle area.
