On Saturday, October 27 from 9 a.m. – noon, hundreds of volunteers, Kent’s mayor and others will join the Green Kent Partnership at the first annual Green Kent Day, a day of volunteer restoration events to celebrate the Partnership’s great […]
With fundraising lagging and a deadline six months away, Olympic Property Group President Jon Rose has proposed some ways to lower the price of 7,000 acres in North Kitsap that a coalition wants to buy for conservation and public open
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What are Seattle’s trees doing for you? That’s the focus of a new report on the multi-year effort by the Green Cities Research Alliance to examine the environmental value and benefits of Seattle’s urban forest. Seattle’s Forest Ecosystem Values: Analysis
The City of Auburn, assisted by Forterra (formerly Cascade Land Conservancy), acquired 9.2 acres including a 2-acre lake of undeveloped land in the West Hill area of the city of Aug. 17. Read the full article online or download the
People power is helping to clean up one of Seattle’s most polluted rivers. On Friday, about a hundred volunteers who work for the Boeing Employees Credit Union pitched in along the Duwamish in Tukwila. Read the full article online or
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The City of Tukwila and Forterra has closed on a land transaction with a private owner to expand the Duwamish Hill Preserve, a historically, culturally and ecologically significant piece of land along the Duwamish River in north Tukwila. The City
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A longtime dream is closer to reality with the approval of a nearly $800,000 federal grant for the construction of a Yakima River Canyon Scenic Byway interpretive center two miles southeast of Ellensburg. Read the full article online or download
Thanks to last week’s purchase of a conservation easement by Tacoma Power, approximately 1,850 acres of working timberland and valuable wildlife habitat in the area known as Peterman Hill above Lewis County’s Riffe Lake will be conserved from development in
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Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and King County Executive Dow Constantine this morning rallied support for proposed development incentives billed as bringing more jobs and residents to downtown Seattle while preserving rural farms and forestland. Read the full article online or
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It’s a bold idea – and what better place to start than in one of the greenest cities in the United States? That’s the thought behind a new program aimed to recruit businesses large and small to commit to calculating,
Working with Pearl Jam to combat climate change Read More »
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