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11-14-09 Party in the Park!
11-14-09 Party in the Park! This morning we discovered the power of positive thinking as everyone on Nature Consortium staff (and I suspect many of our work party participants) had spent the week hoping for a rain-free event. If you have been out to work with us before, perhaps you have heard buphalo say, “There…
Green Seattle Day
Green Seattle Day is an annual city-wide day of service organized by the Green Seattle Partnership. Last Saturday, we at Nature Consortium hosted one of the 16 Green Seattle Day restoration sites. It was a great event! We started off the day digging up blackberry and thistle that had grown back after the initial removal,…
10-29-09 Eastside Catholic School
A sea of sixth graders (around 70 students!) from Eastside Catholic School joined us out at Pigeon Point Park today and we unleashed them on the massive blackberry bramble we battled throughout the summer. There was a lot of maintenance to be done and new ground to be gained, and this group powered through both…
Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance
Last week we had work parties out at our Allstar site, which is located about a half mile from our office and is bisected by Longfellow Creek. Volunteers found a newt in the grass and Coho salmon were seen making their way upstream- who knew there could be so much wildlife right next to a…
10-17-09 Duwamish Alive!
The sky opened up and let loose this morning, as if to let us know that it is, in fact, time to start planting. Despite the impressive downpour, 118 brave and wonderful souls came out to the Duwamish Alive! event that we co-hosted with EarthCorps. This large group of volunteers was split into five different…
10-13-09 John Hay Elementary
Last week, buphalo went to John Hay Elementary to give a lesson to 4th and 5th graders on water as a limited resource and the effects of pollution on watersheds. Unfortunately, we don’t have any photos from that day, but this hands-on lesson included a large tub of water, sponges of various shapes and sizes,…
Non-Sibi Day
The morning was cold and the dark clouds threatened rain, but the sun decided to show itself for the last half of this highly productive work party with alumni from Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. The event was set up as part of Andover’s Non Sibi Day, which according to their website “was established in…
10/1/2009 University Prep!
It was another beautiful autumn day for this quick and dirty work party with over 60 seventh graders from University Prep. We only had two hours with this group, so after buphalo gave a talk about the West Duwamish Greenbelt and its carbon sequestration potential (and that of coniferous forests in general) we put these…
9/25/2009 Tilden Elementary's "Best Field Trip Ever!"
The fifth grade class from Tilden Elementary brought the sun today when they joined us in the Greenbelt for a lesson on watersheds, biodiversity, and restoration practices. As we hiked into the site at 14th and Holly, buphalo showed the kids how to collect fireweed seed and expounded on the wonders of the thimbleberry plant…