Ravine Interpretive Sign
Those who regularly walk Winslow Way across the Winslow Ravine that runs between 305 and the downtown core may have noticed that the old interpretive sign that once described the Winslow Ravine was missing for several months in 2018/2019. The original sign was becoming faded and hard to read, and this kick-started a collaborative process to update the sign. Through the efforts of the Bainbridge Island Watershed Council, the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, graphic designer Joe Tschida and local artist and recent BHS graduate Sophia Kasper, a new sign was created and installed. The result is a beautiful, color-rich sign that greets locals and visitors to engage and inform us about the ecology and history of the Winslow Ravine. Check it out next time you are walking across the ravine on Winslow Way!
Murden Cove Watershed Interpretive Sign
This interactive, mobile sign was a product of a collaborative effort between Sakai Intermediate School, the Watershed Council, and the City of Bainbridge Island which funded its creation. Smallwood Construction donated labor and materials for assembly. The sign is one of the end products of the Murden Cove Watershed Nutrient and Bacteria Reduction Study, a City-led effort to understand sources of excess nutrients and bacteria in the Murden Cove watershed and address them. The sign was developed to help teach students and the community about the Murden Cove watersheds, common sources of pollution, and how people can prevent water pollution. Sakai students created the drawings around the map, and they can be flipped open to read information and action people can take to steward the watershed. The sign is housed at Sakai, but in the summer months we often move it to parks and open spaces around the watershed so the broader community can interact with it as well.
What's Your Watershed?
Water Year 2026 Edition
New! Water Year 2026: What Watershed?
In Water Year 2026, we'll be exploring the dozen or so watersheds of our Island through mystery photographs, where we post a picture each month in the Sustainable Bainbridge Newsletter, and you visit us here if you want help figuring out where the photo is, and what it says about our watersheds!
Let's start with the idea of a Water Year- what is that? The US Geological Survey defines a water year as the 12 month period starting Oct 1 and ending September 30 of the following year, and the end of that term period designates the water year. In the northern hemisphere, a Water Year is a good way to capture a lot of the hydrologic cycle which begins for many of us with cooler, rainier temperatures, transitions through the winter and into Spring and Summer. In areas like the Pacific Northwest, a water year captures both the rain and snow events that drive snow-fed and seasonally rain-fed river runoff.
Join us here for Water Year 2026 to learn more about our watersheds, our hydrology, and things that you can do to steward watershed health!