So I guess I haven't said much about the 'center' itself, so here it is. As the subject implies, it's called the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center, and was founded in 1984 by Kaye Baxter and is located in Arlington, Washington State. We take in injured and orphaned wildlife and do our best to heal/raise them and of course our ultimate goal is to release them back into the wild. We are a 501c3 certified non-profit orginization, and run entirely off of donations and volunteers. We receive no state, local or federal funding aside from what the public donates to us.

I have been volunteering up there for a little over 5 years now, though with it being about 30 miles north of me, I can really only afford to go up once a week, though sometimes go up twice a week for programs and such. As well as rescuing and tending to injured/orphaned wildlife, we also do educational programs at schools, company picnics, festivals and so on. We have several non-releasable birds of prey we bring along, including eagles, hawks, falcons and owls. We try to educate the public about these birds, as well as encourage others take a more active role in conservation with the enviroment. We also have an educational building, which is were we house most of our educational birds, which is open to the public and offers a self guided tour where you can view the birds and take pictures.

We also run the only wildlife 'ambulance' in the state, and while we don't have the funding or manpower to go out and get every injured animal, as much as we would like to, we do use the ambulance to pick up animals from various dropoff points.

On July 4th, 2008, Kay Baxter, the founder of the center, lost her battle with cancer. During the many years she ran the center, she had to take out a mortage on the property to help pay the bills, and with her passing that mortage came due and for a while it seemed like we might loose the land the center is on. However, due to a large donation from a trust, who wishes to remain anonymus, we were able to pay off the mortage and buy the land the center is on so we can continue our work.

The website for the center is https://www.sarveywildlife.org and includes links to pictures others have taken there, strories written by volunteers and recent news about the center, as well as a link to donate to the center.

I end in saying that I hope you will live with all of your relations, that includes the two legged, the four legged, the ones that fly, the ones that swim. The creepy crawlies and the tall ones, the trees.