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Happy birthday to Dow Constantine!
Nature Consortium is lucky to be able to name King County Executive Dow Constantine as a dear friend of our organization. Dow is a West Seattle local who got involved in politics through his environmental work with the Friends of the College Street Ravine many years ago. The story about the preservation of the College…
What is that thing?!
It’s a woolly bear caterpillar! One of our keen-eyed volunteers spotted this guy at a work party in the West Duwamish about a week ago. Although not the biggest or most beautiful creature you will find in the Greenbelt, it is, to me, one of the most fascinating. But why, you may ask? Doesn’t it…
2010 United Way Day of Caring!
What does it look like to have over 200 Microsoft & Qwest volunteers out in the Greenbelt at once? It looks awesome! September 24th, 2010, marked the annual United Way Day of Caring. Nature Consortium is always proud to be a part of this city-wide event and this year we welcomed loads of Microsoft &…
Fresh faces and the start of fall!
As summer comes to a close (sunshine, we hardly knew ye!) and fall starts to creep in, things are moving right along at Nature Consortium. This last week we welcomed 2 new faces to the Restoration Team: Lizzie, who will be taking over for Marisa at the end of the month as the Restoration Project…
The Hunt for Alive Madrones
Somewhere in this field of thistle, Scot’s broom and Himalayan blackberry are several young madrones that we planted last winter, and our Summer of Service (SOS) crew is leading a visiting SOS crew from Othello on a hunt for the beautiful broad leaf evergreens. The hunting grounds are located in Pigeon Point Park in an…
June-uary is over!
That’s right, folks- Welcome to summer! Those of you who grew up in Seattle know that summer doesn’t officially start for us until after the 4th of July, and true to form, the sun came out the afternoon of the 5th. We have a week of heat and sun ahead of us, but there are…
Earth Month 2010!
I know it’s been a while since the blog was updated, but that’s a sign of how incredibly busy we have been here at Nature Consortium! April 22nd marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, and our volunteers celebrated this fact all month. During the month of April we had 983 volunteers out to the…
Power Hour with University Prep!
Last fall we had all of the seventh graders from University Prep out to do some blackberry removal, and they enjoyed it so much they came back with the whole school! Around 200 students and faculty came out for about an hour and a half and they dug up almost 10,000 sq.ft. of blackberry root…
Good golly, check out 12th & Holly!
We have been incredibly busy in the Greenbelt, especially over on SW Holly St. between 12th Ave. and 14th Ave. We currently have a full-time crew of folks from Seattle Youth Employment Program working with us, and they have been blazing through the Himalayan blackberry at the corner of 12th and Holly. So far they…