About Seattle Naturalists

Seattle Naturalists is also a growing repository of information about the Pacific Northwest Maritime region. Here you’ll find local events, learn about local environmental organizations, species guides, maps, and more. Whether you’re looking for a guided nature walk, a citizen science project, a restoration volunteer day, or an education program, this is a good starting place.

Land Acknowledgement

Seattle Naturalists acknowledges that Seattle sits on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples, past and present, and we honor their ongoing relationship to this land and to the waters. For thousands of years, since time immemorial, Indigenous knowledge have been reading this land's calendar, its tides, its salmon runs, its flowering and fruiting, its bird arrivals and departures long before the word 'phenology' existed. That knowledge is not background; it is the foundation.

Hello! I’m Issa (she/they)

I'm a geographer, environmental scientist, and geospatial analyst by training, an illustrator and photographer by passion, and your fellow naturalist by heart.

Based in the Pacific Northwest, I created this blog to build community with other naturalists, shine a light on the remarkable ecological stories unfolding in this region, and continue growing in my own knowledge and practice.

I'm so glad you're here.