Nature Blog

Today was a great day for restoration. We worked at the Cooper site on maintenance and invasive species removal. We spread mulch over about 1,120 sq.ft. of land and applied 30 mulch rings to our plants, as well as maintaining 30 preexisting mulch rings. Next we worked on getting rid of the English ivy. We…

Saturday’s work party marked the annual Global Youth Service Day, and we celebrated with another great weekend of work. The day was spent at the 14th & Holly site with the University Child Development School (UCDS) and other community members. The Mark Smason Band entertained us while we worked on site maintenance, mulch rings, and…

Thank you to everyone who came out for our Earth Day event with Duwamish Alive! and Earth Corps. The event was held at our Cooper site (Pigeon Point Park) on Saturday, April 18th. We had a great volunteer turnout – over 500 people including corporate groups and student organizations. Volunteers were divided into 20 groups…

A few kids from Explorer Junior High School joined us on March 27th for a work party at our Cooper site. We removed 170 sq. ft. of Himalayan blackberry and spread 509 sq. ft. of mulch – all before lunch. After eating pizza with the kids, we removed 750 sq. ft. of Scotch broom and…

We had two work parties this weekend, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. On Saturday, we had a cool group from Arbor Heights Community Church, as well as some of our regular volunteers. On Sunday, the youth from Students Today Leaders Forever (STLF) joined us for a few hours and brought some yummy fried…

We began the day at the 14th and Holly site removing Himalayan blackberry along the trail. We were able to remove 1,000 sq.ft. of Himalayan blackberry by the end of the day. Local clarinetist Amy Denio came out to perform while we worked. She is pictured here sitting on one of the rocks that will…