Nature Blog

West Seattle’s historic Log House Museum recently launched a new exhibit that focuses on the West Duwamish Greenbelt and includes a healthy dose of DNDA history.   The West Duwamish Greenbelt, Seattle’s largest contiguous forest, covers over 500 acres and spans more than four miles along the Duwamish peninsula. Its ridges, creeks, and river formed over…

Another summer, another successful environmental justice program!     DNDA’s Environmental Justice Summer Youth Program would like to celebrate the season and our 10 teen interns, along with all the wonderful partner organizations who helped make this program a success!    In 2024, DNDA hosted a five-week internship that stretched from mid-July to mid-August with 10…

Along with hosting community events and our annual Summer Youth Program, Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) is also spending this summer watering native plants at Delridge Wetland Park.   Most plants at the wetland are less than a year old, and without developed root systems they likely would survive the summer without being irrigated. That’s where DNDA’s…

Along with all the cedars and ferns, one of our favorite things we grew this year was our relationship with Roxhill Elementary School students and teachers! In 2023, Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) began doing forest restoration work at EC Hughes Playground Park in the Longfellow Creek Watershed. EC Hughes is an approximately 6-acre landscaped…

Earth Month is always a whirlwind here at Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA), and April 2024 was no exception.  DNDA’s Nature team hosted 16 community events in April and worked with more than 300 community and student volunteers — our largest numbers since 2015.  We have written elsewhere about hosting our first-ever volunteer event at…

Every summer, people from all around the Pacific Northwest travel to Washington to take in the millions of native wildflowers growing along the Columbia River. Many do not know how easy it is to replicate a native wildflower meadow in their own backyard, or even in a window box!   Wildflowers are great for pollinators, and…