Is your child fascinated by the creatures and foliage found outdoors? Need to find some fun summer activities? The Seattle Audubon Society is currently accepting registrations for its summer Nature Camp at Magnuson Park. Nature Camp gives children the opportunity to learn about the animals, plants, and habitats that make up our beautiful Puget Sound [...]
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Native ground birds around Seattle have begun to nest, and Seattle Parks and Recreation asks that park users show sensitivity to bird habitat by avoiding disturbing habitat and keeping dogs on short, retractable leashes, especially in developed or natural areas with shrub beds, meadows, wetlands, long grass, or thick areas of brush.
Seattle Parks and Recreation invites the public to submit potential names for four separate areas of park land in the Thornton Creek watershed. Here’s the press release. Suggestions are due by 3/3/2011. The parks to be named are: Park #1: This park site is adjacent to the Jackson Park Golf course to the west. It [...] You can buy burgeoning native plants–from groundcovers to towering trees–for incredibly low prices from several Washington State county conservations district plant sales, in March. But you’d better PREORDER NOW to get the best selection! [...] Ruth Williams (ruthalice@comcast.net) sent the following information on the Tree Ordinance Proposal and offerered to answer any questions people have one the issues involved. The deadline is coming up soon so get your comments in ASAP. Please be sure you can type through that goblin sheet! October 31, 2010 is the last day to send [...] Thornton Creek Park Six is in the final round for obtaining 2008 Parks and Open Space Opportunity Fund money. Our urban, seven-acre natural area, just two blocks east of Northgate Mall and home to beavers, kingfishers, pileated woodpeckers, and much more, is this close to receiving $500,000.00 from the fund. The Thornton Creek Alliance sponsored [...] The Merlin falcons we talked about in a January 12, 2010 post are winding down this year’s breeding season. That’s right; they came back again this year – the third year in a row! They chose a crow’s nest in a fir tree a block away from last year’s nest. The nest was harder [...] Want to help Seattle restore 2,500 acres of urban forest land by 2020? Right in our neighborhood maybe? Seattle Parks & Recreation and EarthCorps are partnering to provide community volunteers to become citizen scientists. Volunteers older than 18 get four hours of in-depth training August 14 from 9 am to 1 pm in the scientific methodologies [...] Hopefully I’m not the only one who found this fascinating… But it’s a nice detour from meetings and sidewalks and politics that’s still very local. Maple Leaf Life has a very fun post on our local geology. Obviously they’re discussing Maple Leaf specifically but the full USGS map they link to covers a much larger [...] Back in February we had a few reports of birds found dead, apparently shot. I just checked with Diane Horswill, our North Precinct Crime Prevention Coordinator, to see what advice the Seattle Police Department (SPD) had on this type of incident. Here is her reply: “It is illegal to shoot birds and to discharge a [...] |
 
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