West Sound Wildlife Shelter Mission Statement
The West Sound Wildlife Shelter provides injured, orphaned, and sick wild animals a second chance at life and promotes the well-being of wildlife through public outreach, education, and involvement.

Values Statement
1. All wildlife are worthy of respect.
2. Wildlife deserve compassionate, humane treatment.
3. The preservation of wild species and their habitats is of utmost importance.
4. The people who volunteer their time and resources to help save and improve the lives of wild animals are essential to our success.
5. A supportive, respectful, and honest working environment for staff and volunteers leads to healthier outcomes for our patients.
6. A sound, scientific approach improves wildlife medical and rehabilitative treatments.
7. The public's trust in our animal care and resource management must be maintained and increased through regular acknowledgement and transparency.
8. Human behavior that is destructive to wild animals and natural habitats can be changed through education and outreach.

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Contact the West Sound Wildlife Shelter
If you have an injured, sick or orphaned animal call 206-855-9057 (please do not send an email). We respond to calls and messages from 9am-7pm daily, 7 days a week, including holidays. For after-hour emergencies contact the highway patrol to find a state wildlife agent or your local police department.

For Mike Pratt, Rehabilitator & Director of Wildlife Services, or if you have wildlife natural history or identification questions, contact 206-855-9057 or mike@westsoundwildlife.org

For volunteer information contact Lynne at 206-855-9057 or email lynne@westsoundwildlife.org.

For questions about or to discuss the Shelter's administration or fundraising, contact the Executive Director, Kol Medina, at 206-855-9057 or kol@westsoundwildlife.org.

As required by law, our facility is not open to the public. We cannot give tours of our facility and we cannot let people see the animals that are in our care. Please do not stop by without calling or emailing us first.

Phone: 206-855-9057 Fax: 206-842-6027 Email: info@westsoundwildlife.org

West Sound Wildlife Shelter is a proud participant in One Call for All, Bainbridge Island's unique "red envelope" campaign. Find out more about One Call for All at www.bainbridgefoundation.org.

Who We Are
We are a wild animal medical facility and are able to rescue, diagnose, treat, and release injured and orphaned wildlife. Our important work relies on the energy, dedication, and continued wisdom of volunteers, participating veterinarians, staff, associate state licensed rehabilitators, and board members.

To get involved with the West Sound Wildlife Shelter, we invite you to visit our volunteer page to identify activities that may appeal to you.

Staff

Executive Director
Kol Medina is the Executive Director of the West Sound Wildlife Shelter, an attorney, and life-long environmental enthusiast. During his four years as Executive Director of West Sound Wildlife Shelter he has overseen the substantial expansion of the Shelter's wildlife hospital, staff, and education services. During this time he has also continued his law practice and has served on numerous Boards including the Association of Bainbridge Communities, the West Sound Wildlife Shelter, One Call for All, and the National Association of Environmental Law Societies. From 1996-1998, Kol and his wife served as Peace Corps Volunteers in West Africa, managing a forest valuation project, a livestock vaccination project, and designing an educational children's bird book. Kol obtained his B.A. in Environmental Studies at Carleton College and his law degree at Stanford Law School. You can contact Kol at kol@westsoundwildlife.org.

Director of Wildlife Services
Michael Pratt

is Director of Wildlife Services at West Sound Wildlife Shelter and has over twenty years experience in wildlife rehabilitation, avian captive management and training of program birds.  Mike holds both federal and state wildlife permits. He has extensive experience in training bird handlers & other wildlife rehabilitators, performing public educational programs and assisting the public with wildlife questions and problems.  Mike has worked at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science Raptor Center where he served as Avian Curator.  He was also Operation Manager at World Bird Sanctuary and Supervisor at Missouri Wildlife Rescue in St. Louis, Missouri.  Mike is a wildlife biologist and was a National Park Ranger before entering the wildlife profession.

Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitation Specialist and Volunteer Coordinator
Lynne Weber was born in Iowa, but then moved to Wisconsin, where she married her high school sweetheart. Lynne's animal care career started in the eighties as a licensed horse groomer in Illinois. She now has over 20 years experience in professional animal care, including horses, dogs, and cats, not to mention snakes, iguanas, guinea pigs, hamsters, and other various critters. Lynne began volunteering at WSWS in 2007 and was hired on temporarily during the 2008 baby season in addition to serving as the Monday Shift Supervisor. She also volunteers with Stand Up For Kids, a national organization supporting at risk and homeless youth, as well as being a member of the Red Cross and Kitsap County Department of Emergency Management.

Development Coordinator
Elsa Watson began volunteering for WSWS in 2002, when she and her husband moved to Bainbridge Island. Elsa's professional background includes website design, marketing, graphic design, event planning, and writing (her novel, Maid Marian, was published in 2004). From her days as a Peace Corps volunteer to her recent stint running her own website design business, Elsa has always enjoyed communicating with others. A life-long animal lover, Elsa is delighted to be working with an organization that promotes a love of the environment and peaceful co-existance with wildlife . You can contact her by emailing elsa@westsoundwildlife.org.

Board of Directors

President
Margaret Duncan (Margee), a resident of Bainbridge Island whose mother imparted a sensitivity to wildlife needs to her at a young age, became actively involved in wildlife rehabilitation when a friend needed her help with an orphaned red-tailed hawk. She was elected to the Board in 1995, took the lead in getting the outdoor mews built in time for our opening in 1999, and has remained active with us every since. Margee is an historian and political scientist (emphasis on natural resource management) who is devoted to salmon and bull trout recovery in Puget Sound. She serves as the lead in Board Development and financial accounting.

Vice President
Barbara Sacerdote, a consultant in non-profit management, fundraising and communications, is currently discovering Alaska while leading a capacity building project for the First Alaskans Institute. She worked as a Director of Development and Marketing for more than 20 years in the arts, and with conservation and public policy groups before becoming an independent consultant. She led Pacific Northwest Ballet as Development Director during its $127 million campaign for McCaw Hall and is particularly proud of leading development and marketing to build the Tacoma Art Museum. Barbara has raised more than $30 million for annual, capital and endowment campaigns since 2000. Barbara joined WSWS in 2009 and is finding great satisfaction as a volunteer fundraiser for the West Sound Wildlife Shelter's capital campaign. She looks forward to helping build up the Annual Fund! Barbara has an M.F.A from Columbia University in Arts Administration and a B.S. in Marketing and Journalism from Southern Oregon State University. She is an avid sailor and traveler currently turning her Bainbridge Island acreage into a bird sanctuary and learning to live in harmony with the deer and raccoons who also claim land rights.

Treasurer
John Bomben

Keith Barnes, WSWS Marketing Director, joins the board and volunteer staff of WSWS with 20 years experience and expertise in the development and implementation of integrated marketing communication progr amming, and strategic business development. He is currently the president and creative director of Motive, a strategic marketing and brand communications agency serving Fortune 500 companies in the beverage and organic food industries. Keith is a resident of Bainbridge Island and a Washington native. Keith has been working with non-profit organizations for over 17 years, having created successful and award winning marketing campaigns for Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Northwest Trek, Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, Washington Council for The Prevention of Child Abuse, March of Dimes (Washington Chapter) and The Boys & Girls Clubs.

Tim Bird grew up in England, and moved with his family to Bainbridge in 1990.  He joined the Wildlife Shelter board in 2007, after participating in the Wildlife Spin. Tim is a recently retired research scientist, having spent the last 20 years of his career with Immunex corporation (now Amgen Seattle) studying the cellular mechanisms of inflammatory disorders. A keen fisherman and cyclist, he loves to walk island trails with his wife Veronica and their dog. On the Board, Tim will be taking a special responsibility for the Education and Outreach programs.

Katherine De Bruyn

Christina Pettan-Brewer was born and raised in Brazil. Since childhood, her passion for Veterinary Medicine never stopped growing and was what brought her to UCDavis and finally to USA, working with Wildlife and Zoological Medicine with Dr. Murray Fowler. After working with infectious diseases affecting human and exotic animals at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, she and her husband and daughter moved to Bainbridge Island.  She works at University of Washington at the Medical Genetics and Comparative Medicine, studying pathogenesis and mechanisms of diseases. Christina has been involved with the Wildlife Shelter since 2001. She will be “co-sharing” the Education and Outreach Program responsibilities with Tim Bird.