Sno-King Watershed Council spent a lovely late winter day training two fantastic volunteer groups for longterm water quality monitoring on Puget Creek as part of the Duwamish Tribe’s Ridge To River Trail Project. Morning training included Duwamish Tribal members and employees as well as an Unleash the Brilliance teen working […]
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Frognal Estates, formerly known as Horseman’s Trail, is a proposed single-family subdivision project for 112 lots. It is an assembly of three currently forested parcels totaling 22.34 acres in the Picnic Point neighborhood, an area between Mukilteo and Edmonds. SnoKing Watershed Council (SKCW) represented members in the Picnic Point Creek […]
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
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/