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Second Annual Camano Island Backyard Wildlife Habitat Garden Tour June 26 2010 Visit wildlife gardens at the Second Annual Camano Island Backyard Wildlife Habitat Garden Tour Saturday, June 26, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. The event is free to the public. Last year's 1st Annual Camano Island Backyard Wildlife Habitat Garden Tour was a great success! Over 200 people visited eight gardens on the north end of Camano Island that demonstrated how we live in harmony with nature. This year we're focusing on the middle part of our Island. Pick up maps at Camano Multipurpose Center (AKA - The Blue Building), 141 E Camano Drive, the day of the event. Besides a lovely garden tour on the island, the Wildlife Habitat Garden Tour will demonstrate how people can live happily in harmony with nature, show how any property can be a Backyard Wildlife Habitat, and promote awareness of the National Wildlife Federation's Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program - just by providing food, water, shelter and places to raise a family. These elements may be present naturally or be provided by the homeowner. Gardens range from small to large, simple to extravagant, forested to waterfront. The tour will feature gardens in the central part of Camano Island. Information on native plants, wildlife, composting, as well as challenges faced on particular properties will be available. Camano Island is the 10th community in the nation to be certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a Community Wildlife Habitat with more than 700 individual properties certified as Backyard Wildlife Habitats. The tour is sponsored by the Camano Wildlife Habitat Project of Friends of Camano Island Parks. For more information about the tour, call 360-387-1615 or e-mail
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Volunteer Yourself
We need folks to act as docents in the gardens, help put up posters, hand out maps the day of the Tour, etc, etc, etc. Contact Sandy Koffman above.
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