Join Sno-King Watershed Council, in partnership with the City of Kenmore, for habitat restoration in Wallace Swamp Creek Park on Sunday, April 28 from 11 am – 2 pm! All ages welcome. Volunteers under 18, please contact us for a guardian consent form if you won’t bring a grown up […]
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Join Sno-King Watershed Council, in partnership with the City of Kenmore, for habitat restoration at our 175th St/Swamp Creek South site on Saturday, April 20 from 11 am – 2 pm! All ages welcome. Volunteers under 18, please contact us for a guardian consent form if you won’t bring a […]
These students are really working on improving the salmon habitat in Edmonds! Students Saving Salmon is a a club made up of Edmonds-Woodway High School students who are interested in learning about salmon and their habitat. https://www.facebook.com/Students-Saving-Salmon-Edmonds-Stream-Team-1094875650565724/
I was very proud to witness the proclamation at the beginning of tonight’s Kenmore city council meeting recognizing the work that Sno-King Watershed Council has done in Kenmore (and beyond). In the 20+ years that we have lived in Kenmore I’ve watched our city government transition into one that values our environment […]
Join us the day after Thanksgiving for fresh air, fellowship, and habitat restoration! We’ll be pulling Himalayan blackberries as a first step to restoring native habitat to an area of the park. Why pull Himalayans?Himalayans blackberries are a non-native, invasive species in Washington State. They aggressively crowd out native plants, […]
Late August bio-monitoring for Global Water Watch on Swamp Creek and Little Swamp Creek in Bothell and Kenmore. So much fun! Marilyn Snutson, Jeffrey, Staci Adman and Eric Adman.
Interesting article from the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound! https://www.eopugetsound.org/magazine/is/orca-social-bonds
From My Edmonds News (http://myedmondsnews.com/2017/10/students-saving-salmon-students-restore-shell-creek-stream-bank): It was a perfect fall Saturday morning as the Edmonds-Woodway High School Students Saving Salmon club gathered with club advisor Joe Scordino and others to continue their restoration work along the banks of Shell Creek just south of Holy Rosary Church. “Our past work here […]
King County recently completed a grant-funded study that used environmental monitoring data to identify and prioritize stream basins across the Puget Sound region for restoration and protection. This work represents an exciting development: Instead of simply describing the conditions in streams and their contributing basins, the information derived from stream monitoring data are being used […]
Eric Adman canoes past a restoration planting site, at right, along Swamp Creek on Dec. 20 in Kenmore.(Andy Bronson / The Herald) http://www.heraldnet.com/news/illegal-parking-lot-highlights-silt-problems-in-area-streams
by AARON KUNKLER, Bothell Reporter Reporter Salmon runs used to be a prominent feature of Lake Washington and Puget Sound, but their numbers have dramatically declined following decades of shoreline development, contamination and increasing wetland urbanization, prompting ecology experts to galvanize governments and private landowners to try and carve out a […]
Salmon habitat restoration efforts have thousands of miles to go in King County. Hundreds of those miles are on private property, which is why King Conservation District is launching a new Urban Shorelines program to assist with restoration costs. Read & view more here… http://www.king5.com/story/tech/science/environment/2015/12/31/king-conservation-district-salmon-habitat-restoration-urban-shorelines-program/78158964/