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Magnuson ReforestationAugust 02, 10am-1pm @ Warren G. Magnuson Park Help improve habitat and create replacement forest on a formerly denuded navy airfield. (Above photo taken in Navy era). The aim is to create healthy forest habitat and increase beneficial ecosystem services including provision of human enjoyment and health. It is also an opportunity to enjoy nature and learn a bit about native plants while doing satisfying work. Work is most likely to include removing invasive plants like ivy, Canada thistle, and blackberry but may also include other tasks such as distributing wood chip mulch. Because the work may be beyond capability of youth below high school age, please get the leader’s permission before registering if younger. more |
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Peppi's Watering and WeedingAugust 02, 10am-12:30pm @ Peppi's Playground We'll water young trees and do some maintenance weeding of ivy and blackberry in previously planted areas. We may also move some composted weeds off of weed rafts to feed the soil and to make room for new weeds on the rafts. more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingAugust 06, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. more |
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Ryan's Ridge wood chip spreadingAugust 06, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Most of the blackberries have been removed from the extensive Ryan's Ridge site which parallels the parade grounds road, so the final step in the summer restoration process is to cover all bare ground with wood chips to keeps seedlings from sprouting. There will likely be a few green blackberries left that should be easy to find; they will need to be cut down and dug up. Other possible tasks include watering and digging up resprouts. But the priority task will be hauling wood chips more |
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Daybreak Community & Land TendingAugust 07, 11am-3pm @ Daybreak Star We invite you to join us in tending the land at Daybreak Star Cultural Center. These gatherings are a return—to land, to care, and to being in right relationship with one another. Guided by Indigenous leadership at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, we come together to practice food sovereignty, cultural memory, and collective care in ways that are grounded, relational, and real. This season, we are tending the Forest Garden, a living space that supports elders, youth, and Indigenous-centered community programs while growing a future rooted in reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. All ages are welcome. You’re invited to come move your body, tend the land, and be in community—whether you stay for a couple of hours or the full day. Together, we’ll engage in hands-on care of the land through planting, weeding, harvesting, and seasonal projects, while also making space for connection, learning, and shared reflection. If you’re looking for a place to show up, build relationships, and grow something lasting, this is a space to gather, care for the land, and imagine what’s possible—together. more |
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Golden Gardens Park work partiesAugust 08, 9am-12pm @ Golden Gardens Park Do you want to restore the forest at Golden Gardens Park? Come out and help us the second Saturday of every month. We remove invasive weeds and plant native species that return the forest to a more natural ecosystem. We provide tools and training so we only need your enthusiasm to help restore this beautiful park. more |
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Green Lake Shoreline Planting PrepAugust 08, 10am-1pm @ Green Lake Park The brambles are gone, the prickly part completed, now we're after the roots! Join us to dig out blackberries and remove weeds in preparation for planting a wonderful assortment of native plants this Fall. more |
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Habitat Restoration and Bird Walk on Lake Washington BlvdAugust 08, 8:30am-12pm @ Lake Washington Boulevard Join the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust and Birds Connect Seattle for a guided morning bird walk and habitat restoration event along Lake Washington Blvd! The bird walk will begin promptly at 8:30am. We will begin restoration around 9-9:30am after the walk. We will be removing Himalayan blackberry and English ivy. Bring your binoculars! more |
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Orchard Street Ravine Work PartyAugust 08, 10am-1pm @ Orchard Street Ravine Join other enthusiastic volunteers for a fun morning restoring and preserving our native forest. more |
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Sturtevant Ravine Work Party!August 08, 9am-11am @ Sturtevant Ravine Help continue forest restoration at the Ravine! We will clearing out blackberry and other plants that are surrounding native plants that need our support. more |
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Survival Rings for trees in Schmitz Preserve ParkAugust 08, 10am-12pm @ Schmitz Preserve Park We will be hiking off trail to reach trees that have ivy growing up the trunks. This ivy acts like a sail on the tree making it more likely to fall during a wind storm. The ivy growing vertically also stimulates it to make seeds, which spreads more ivy. We will create Survival Rings by cutting the ivy that is on the trunks and pulling it away from the bases of the trees. This will be a more difficult volunteer event for hardy souls! more |
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West Duwamish Greenbelt Restoration EventAugust 08, 9:30am-12:30pm @ West Duwamish GS: Soundway |
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Blackberry Banishment at Beaver Pond Natural AreaAugust 09, 10am-12pm @ Beaver Pond Natural Area on TC We have the shovels; we just need your muscle power to dig out those blackberry bushes and clear the area for native plants this fall. Work area is relatively flat and easy to access. A short orientation to techniques and tool safety will be provided at the start of this work party. more |
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Lincoln Park - Tide-pooling and BrunchAugust 09, 8am-11am @ Lincoln Park Join us for a morning of tide pooling with Meros! Come learn about intertidal creatures and their environments, make friends and build community. At Meros the mission is to create access to the ocean for BIPOC through experiences that deepen our relationship with the sea and each other. Animals you might meet: Nudibranchs, sea stars, anemones, gunnels, sculpin, limpets, chitons, barnacles, kelp crabs, red rock crabs, dungeness crabs, porcelain crabs, octopuses We will be walking along a sandy rocky beach. No steep slopes or stairs. Rocks may be slippery! Tread carefully. Event Agenda: 8:00a-8:10a Meet on the sidewalk (click here 8:10a-8:30a: Intros, then Meros will share an overview, site history and discuss safety 8:30a-10:30a: Tidepooling 10:30-11: Brunch/recap Food will be provided. All ages are welcome! more |
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Vashon View Restoration Area MaintenanceAugust 11, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Restoration isn't just removing invasive species and planting natives. There's a lot of follow up and tending that needs to occur. We will be touring a number of sites in the south meadow to assess maintenance, weeding and watering. We will likely be pulling and digging multiple blackberry resprouts. Depending upon the recent weather, we may be hand watering the previously planted restoration plantings. more |
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PRIVATE EVENT - PwCAugust 14, 10am-12pm @ Discovery Park Help us make way for more native plant habitat by removing the many invasive blackberry plants encroaching on the south meadow. This will be a little bit of cutting back the blackberry out of the forest edge of the meadow and a bit of digging up roots. We will also need to spread wood chips to keep new seeds from sprouting. All tools will be provided. more |
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3rd Saturday forest restoration at Jackson Park Trail!August 15, 10am-2pm @ Jackson Park Golf Course Enjoy the "natural areas" along the Jackson Park golf course perimeter trail. We'll walk to a work area and continue to make progress removing invasive ivy and blackberries, planting native plants, weeding, or mulching, as the season demands! more |
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Carkeek STARS Work PartyAugust 15, 9am-12pm @ Carkeek Park Join other enthusiastic volunteers for a fun morning of forest restoration and trails maintenance. We have a wide variety of tasks you can help with. Adults and teenagers welcome. If you are a group of 5 or more contact Dale Johnson. Follow the STARS signs to our meeting place, which will be the parking lot at the Environmental Learning Center. Welcome! more |
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East Duwamish Work PartyAugust 15, 10am-12pm @ East Duwamish GS: S Chicago St Help take care of the forest along this neighborhood trail! Depending on the time of the year, we'll be pulling and removing ivy, cutting back and digging out blackberry or planting new plants; and always having a good time! more |
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Fight Blackberries in Thistle Street Greenspace!August 15, 2pm-3:30pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Thistle Street Greenspace Come learn about and participate in restoration efforts right here in your neighborhood! We'll be identifying and removing invasive species to clear up space for the fall planting season, with the long-term goal of returning this important neighborhood forest to something closer to its historic, pre-logging form. If we're lucky we'll see some cool birds, too! more |
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Phil Vogelzang with Friends of Discovery ParkAugust 15, 10am-1pm @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-diverse area in Discovery Park. Come help us promote forest health and increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasives, mulching and aerate the soil to encourage symbiotic fungi, and plant this years native shrubs and groundcovers. more |
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Lake Washington Blvd: South Seattle (Partner Event with The Service Board!)August 21, 10am-1pm @ Lake Washington Boulevard |
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St. Joseph Parish Restoration at Interlaken ParkAugust 22, 10am-12:30pm @ Interlaken Park St. Joseph Climate Justice Committee is hosting a work party at Interlaken Park, a nearby green space shared by community members of north Capitol Hill, Portage Bay, and Montlake. We'll be conducting ecological restoration activities working with our hands to make space for native plants, animals, and people to enjoy. Make some local impact with good company. more |
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Westcrest Park Work Party and Forest BathingAugust 22, 9am-12pm @ Westcrest Park Join Dirt Corps this August for a forest bathing walk and then dive in and help us care for this section of the West Duwamish Greenbelt. We'll be going on a walk through the denser canopy areas, enjoy some quite and clean air. We'll then care for our restoration area by applying mulch around the native plants and trees, removing weeds (looking at you,blackberry! a yummy but gnarly invasive species), and performing other important landscape maintenance. We hope to see you there! more |
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“Teaching of the Tree People” Screening The Work of Bruce Miller at The Seattle Central Library AuditororiumAugust 27, 6pm-7:30pm @ Daybreak Star The Teaching of the Tree People Community Film Screening & Conversation Join us for a special screening of The Teaching of the Tree People, a moving documentary centered on the life, teachings, and legacy of Gerald Bruce Miller (Subiyay), a revered Skokomish elder, master artist, educator, and cultural caretaker whose life's work was dedicated to preserving and sharing the knowledge of the Twana and Southern Coast Salish peoples. The film was completed shortly before his passing and serves as his enduring gift to future generations. Bruce Miller believed that "the trees were our first teachers." Through stories, traditional ecological knowledge, plant medicines, cedar harvesting and weaving, First Foods traditions, language, and cultural teachings, he demonstrated how the natural world guides us in living with reciprocity, responsibility, and respect. As the bearer of generations of knowledge, oral history, art, and spirituality, he devoted his life to ensuring these teachings would continue long after him. Presented in partnership with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation and the Green Seattle Partnership, this event invites community members to reflect on the deep connections between Indigenous knowledge, cultural resilience, ecological restoration, and stewardship of the lands and waters that sustain us. The documentary follows Bruce's journey from his childhood among tribal elders, through experiences at Berkeley, Vietnam, and New York City, and ultimately his return home to the Skokomish homeland, where he led a cultural renaissance rooted in language revitalization, traditional arts, ceremony, and environmental stewardship. His influence continues to shape Indigenous food sovereignty, plant medicine, cultural education, and restoration efforts throughout the Pacific Northwest. Following the screening, participants will be invited into a community conversation exploring Indigenous stewardship, restoration, food sovereignty, and the teachings that continue to guide us through our relationships with the land, plants, waters, and one another. Location: Seattle Central Library Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026 Time: 6pm-7:30pm Cost: Free and open to the public All are welcome. more |
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Longfellow Creek Forest Restoration @ Willow StAugust 28, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Central Following the first year of restoration and planting events in the Willow St reach of Longfellow Creek, our community food forest is starting to come alive and take shape! For this event we’ll be removing the invasive species that have returned (thankfully not too much) and providing additional mulch to the new young plants that we planted last year. Come see how the green space is evolving and learn about the variety of species that we planted. Be part of local change and walk away with pride knowing your efforts support ecology, community, and good health. more |
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Capehart Weeding and WateringAugust 29, 9:30am-11:30am @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-diverse area in Discovery Park. Come help us promote forest health and increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasive plants and watering native plants. more |
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Kingfisher Natural Area Restoration- Forest Bathing and Work PartyAugust 29, 9am-12pm @ Kingfisher Natural Area on TC Join Dirt Corps this August in learning about and caring for the riparian forest of Kingfisher Natural Area. We'll be exploring the history, restoration, hydrology, and ecology of this section of Thornton Creek. Enjoy talking a walk through the denser canopy, quite and cleaner air. After this we'll be caring for the space by removing ground cover English ivy and other weeds, and performing general upkeep to keep it a nice space for people to use. We hope to see you there! more |
