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Stewardship Guide, Getting
to the Water's Edge
Getting to the Water's Edge is a key piece
of our strategy to reach a broad cross-section of
the public with marine stewardship education and
to help introduce the Island County Marine Stewardship
Areas.
 Co-published
in 2006 in partnership with WSU Beach Watchers,
Water's Edge is a 176-page, full-color field guide
to Island County shores and trails. We designed
it for commercial sale in bookstores and shops,
and knew within days of its release that we had
a best seller. It describes 67 places the public
may access the shoreline and includes 18 pages of
trail maps and nearly 100 color photographs. Nearly
half the 5,000-copy print run was distributed to
sponsors or sold to the public in the first six
weeks at 28 bookstores and shops in four counties.
Purchase
book.
The concept for the book was to crate a high-appeal
guide that could serve as a platform to educate
the public about nearshore best practices, stewardship,
Island County's marine stewardship areas and the
Shore Stewards and Beach Watchers programs.
Getting to the Water's Edge outlines the Shore
Stewards' 10 guidelines for shoreline living, the benefits
of becoming a Shore Steward, and includes short essays
on such subjects as eelgrass, forage fish, beach shading,
feeder bluffs, shoreline alterations, living on bluffs,
pocket estuaries, citizen science, derelict fishing
gear, bulkheading, septic systems, large woody debris,
marine mammal stranding and other shoreline topics.
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