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Mailing Address:
WSU Extension - Snohomish County
600 128th ST SE
Everett, WA 98208

Phone: (425) 338-2400
FAX: (425) 338-3994

Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8a.m. - 5p.m.
Phone hours: Monday-Friday, 9a.m. - 5p.m.

Directions: To reach our office exit I-5 at 128th Street SW (Everett exit #186). Turn east and go 1/4 mile (across from the Golf Range) to the Park-and-Ride and McCollum Park. Turn into the park (right) and go to the WSU Extension building at the back of the park, beyond the swimming pool.

Map to McCollum Park

ABOUT US

Curt Moulton - Chair of the Snohomish County Extension Office
moultonc@wsu.edu
The Chair administers the office on behalf of WSU and Snohomish County. This entails managing fiscal and personnel resources to maximize the benefit of WSU Extension programs to the citizens of Snohomish County. Curt has also held administrative positions in King and Pierce Counties and has extensive experience in agricultural and environmental educational programming.

Jana Ferris - 4-H Agent
ferrisj@wsu.edu
The 4-H program reaches youth in Kindergarten through 12th grade. There are both individual 4-H clubs in the County as well as group enrollments through school enrichment. Club members are long term members who work with projects in a club to develop life skills. School enrichment members are short term programs designed to teach specific skills and understanding.

School enrichment programs, in addition to Plants Grow Healthy Children are:

• 1) River Salmon Tours
• 2) Stream and Nature Enhancement Projects
• 3) Natural Science Educational Programs.
  
  

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Phoebe Bachleda - 4-H Assistant
bachleda@wsu.edu

Phoebe promotes and implements 4-H participation through community clubs, school enrichment and after-school programs. She assists volunteers in providing a youth development program that focuses on helping youth build life skills.

Gabrielle Roesch - 4-H Assistant
gabrielle90@wsu.edu

Gabrielle administers the County 4-H Natural Resource program , in-school enrichment and after-school programming that is EALR appropriate based on experiential science. Her curriculum covers ecosystems, forests, wildlife, salmon and much, much more. She works to build in life skills and the 4-H's into her programming.

Sharon J. Collman -- Community Horticulture
collmans@wsu.edu

Sharon Collman, WSU Snohomish County extension educator, has spent her career photographing and teaching about insects, integrated pest management and plant problem diagnosis in the Pacific Northwest. She has authored more than 75 articles and bulletins on these topics. She has won numerous awards for her programs including Educator of the Year awarded by the Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association. She invites you to join with WSU Snohomish County Extension to

• strengthen the local “grower to garden” connection


• change how we manage pests
• improve our practices to sustain our gardens and landscapes,
• protect water and environmental quality, and
• document our insect biodiversity in Snohomish County and the Puget Sound Basin

Jan Rainsberger -- WSU Master Gardener Coordinator rainsber@wsu.edu
Jan is WSU Master Gardener Coordinator for Snohomish County, managing dozens of volunteer MG's as well as setting up classes for new and returning Master Gardeners.

Chrys Bertolotto -- WSU Beachwatcher Coordinator
chrys@wsu.edu
Chrys coordinates the WSU Beachwatcher's Program for Snohomish and Skagit Counties. WSU Beachwatchers are professionally-trained volunteers dedicated to protecting Puget Sound’s fragile
environment through education, research, public awareness and example.

Ned Zaugg - Extension Dairy Agent
zaugg@wsu.edu
Ned provides continuous educational programming to dairymen in NW Washington, also statewide on an on-call basis. Ned's major responsibilities include serving as director of the WSU Skagit Co. Extension office. He contributes articles to the State-wide dairy newsletter. Ned cooperates with other agencies and businesses to provide educational materials and events which address solutions to environmental concerns. He also collaborates with animal industry organizations to provide educational events for the general public. He is a member of the Western Dairy Management Conference Planning Committee. His 4-H training involves 4-H leaders and members throughout Washington to teach project skills, safety around animals and operating farm equipment, as well at to provide opportunities for personal achievement, leadership development and participation in national youth educational events.

Colleen works ¾-time as program supervisor. She has worked with the program since its expansion in Snohomish County in July of 2000. She develops community collaborations, produces reports and budgets which keep the program expanding and serving the food stamp eligible residents of Snohomish County.

Susie serves as an advisor to the Food $ense program team in Snohomish County. She also supervises the Extension Family and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) in both King and Snohomish Counties. She has been with us since July 2004. She is also nationally known for her work on a food safety/handwashing project called “Germ City”.

Kathy Gilman -Food $ense Educator
kgilman@wsu.edu

Kathy is half-time, grant funded, program assistant who teaches nutrition to preschool through senior aged participants in Snohomish County. She specializes in work with seniors and ELL populations. She has worked with Food $ense since 1999.

Kevin Zobrist -- Forestry
kzobrist@wsu.edu

Kevin is the Forest Stewardship Educator for Snohomish and Skagit Counties. Programs include forest stewardship "Coached Planning" short courses, workshops on a variety of forestry topics, interpretive programs, and one-on-one technical assistance for landowners. Kevin has a BS in Forest Management and an MS in Forest Economics, both from the University of Washington. Before joining WSU Extension, Kevin held a research appointment at the University of Washington working on improving technology transfer to forest landowners and developing forest management strategies to better integrate biodiversity and economic objectives.

Dave Pehling - Extension Analyst
pehling@wsu.edu
Dave has program responsibilities in entomology, native plant identification, plant pathology, natural history, 4-H Shooting Sports and vertebrate pest management. His expertise is used in responding to questions on these subjects as well as training Master Gardeners and Livestock Advisors. Dave also provides technical assistance in installing, maintaining and training in computer usage for Extension staff, is network administrator for the WSU Snohomish County office, webmaster for this web site and interim webmaster of WSU Gardening in Western Washington (http://gardening.wsu.edu) .