Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
Content Strategy & Migration
Training & Ongoing Support
Most people meet this site on a phone: volunteers finding a Saturday work party, teachers checking field trip details. The calendar, sign-ups, and directions all hold up on a small screen.
NSEA has been at this work in Bellingham since 1991, and you can feel how much the community loves them for it. We wanted the design to give some of that love back, so we built the site straight from their brand guidelines and let their identity lead. It is some of the work we are proudest of.
NSEA handed us a real brand guide, and our job was carrying it onto the web without losing anything. The palette comes straight from it, out of the watershed: teal and ink for the river, mist and cream for morning fog on the water, roe and salmon-red for the fish themselves. So does the type: headlines are set in Lora, a serif that feels closer to a field journal than a tech company. From there we built the web-native details the guide could not cover: topographic linework behind their impact numbers, section edges that roll into the next like moving water, and a small leaf stamped with the date on every event card. All of it is there to keep the creek in view.
See it in the wildEvery project has a few pages that come out better than anyone planned. These three are live right now, click through.
01Everything a program officer wants in one place: current funding, financials, and the case for the work. A funder can find it without emailing anyone.
02A little map of the best public viewing spots, and under it a calendar of when each salmon species comes back, month by month. It is the kind of small, useful page we love building.
03We went back through a year of newsletters and annual reports and brought their stories onto the site. Staff link straight to work they’re proud of, and grant writers pull from it. It also gave search engines a year of new content to index.
NSEA runs four different program areas, and the people who run them now run their corners of the site too. We built it on WordPress and trained the leadership team the week of launch. When an educator needs to update a field trip page or the volunteer crew wants to post a Saturday work party, they just do it. They do not have to call us first. It is their site, fixable to their heart’s content.
Everything below is the real thing: live components from n-sea.org, running right here.
Summer camp registration is open!
Camp Keystone is an outdoor day camp for 3–6-year-olds that blends discovery, science, and silliness. This summer will feature 10 weekly camp sessions, offering both half-day and full-day options to meet your family’s needs.
As a licensed program, we are proud to offer financial assistance to qualifying families. We are also a participant in Washington Early Achievers, which recognizes high-quality educational opportunities.
Now hiring
Development Manager
Regular, full-timeBellingham, WAApply by August 21
The Development Manager is responsible for developing comprehensive fundraising strategies to expand philanthropic support and meet organizational fundraising goals. This position implements all components of the development plan including annual giving, planned giving, major individual and corporate gifts, and special fundraising events. The Development Manager has a passion and enthusiasm for building relationships with NSEA donors, connecting the community with NSEA’s mission and work, and cultivating a culture of philanthropy throughout the organization and its supporters.
Most local steelhead enter freshwater October through February and spawn March through May. A separate summer run in the South Fork spawns February through April.
Fall Chinook enter freshwater between September and late October and spawn soon after reaching the spawning site.
Chum spawn from October through January in creeks all over the county, including Terrell, Squalicum, Whatcom, Padden, and Chuckanut Creeks.
NSEA’s team was a joy to work with. They were generous with their time, quick with feedback, and they care about this work in a way you can feel in every meeting.
It was also personal. We live in Bellingham, and the creeks on this site are the ones we cross on the way to work. Getting to build for the people actively healing the place we live felt like a privilege, and we are grateful they trusted us with it.