On today’s Folk U Friday Manda Aufochs Gillespie Interviewed Autumn Barrett-Morgan a citizen scientist with Friends of Cortes Island (Foci), about how we can support species at risk on Cortes Island.

Autumn gave us a lot of information on 10 of the species, many more are featured on the friendsofcortes.org website, visit them here 

Some of the species at risk that Autumn featured:

• Great Blue Heron. Learn more here .
• Pacific Coastal Cutthroat Trout. Learn more here. 
• Silver Spotted Skipper. Learn more here.
• Townsend’s Big-eared Bat. Learn more here. 
• Western Toad. Learn more here. 
• Barn swallow. Learn more  here 

Listen to their sound.
Sooty Grouse. Learn more here.

Northern Pygmy Owl. Learn more here. 

Sam Mayer did the gardening section and talked about lasagna gardening as a way of making soil while growing. 

This program was originally broadcast on Friday May 14, 2020 and rebroadcast on Friday, May May 11, 2022.

Top photo credit: Northern Pygmy Owl – Glaucudium gnoma swarthi – Nick Saunders, 2017