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Habitat Restoration along Burke-Gilman TrailJuly 26, 9am-12pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail Light pruning and invasive plant removal. more |
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Invasive's be gone.July 26, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We will be removing invasive plants from the trail side, and trimming encroaching native plants. more |
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Magnuson ReforestationJuly 26, 9am-12pm @ 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 and blackberry but may also include other tasks such as distributing wood chip mulch or planting if plants are available. 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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Pulling Ivy with A Cleaner AlkiJuly 26, 9:30am-11:30am @ Duwamish Head Greenbelt Help the community group, A Cleaner Alki, remove ivy and blackberry to make room for native plants that will support birds, insects and other wildlife 🦅 more |
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cuttting ivy and clematis vinesJuly 27, 9am-12pm @ Genesee Park and Playfield please join us to cut ivy and clematis vines out of the trees more |
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"World Nature Conservation Day" Volunteer Restoration Event!July 27, 10am-1pm @ Westcrest Park Join us in celebrating "World Conservation Day" with a Westcrest Park volunteer restoration event! The educational portion of the day will focus on what conservation methods we as neighbors can do for our shared green spaces, and we'll also be focusing on invasive plant management as we get the site ready for Fall planting! more |
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Magnuson ReforestationJuly 28, 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 and blackberry but may also include other tasks such as distributing wood chip mulch or planting if plants are available. 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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Frink Park Land & Community TendingJuly 29, 10am-4pm @ Frink Park Futures Rising is inviting you to nourish and restore the land. We will be tending the land where we have planted traditional foods and medicines. This space will center Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to come together to talk about possibilities, be held by the land and each other. In our deep need for community and the restoration of relation with the land we invite you to share space with us! During this time we will be reflecting on the teachings of interdependence and how the plant people can show us the way. We will be working on preparing the space for this years planting of traditional foods and medicines. Here is a loose agenda to center our youth in their learning: Week 4 - Interdependence: Devils Club & Mycelium 7/29 Monday : Frink - Core Group - Web of Life-Biomimicry Welcoming and opening protocal 15-20 Go over group agreements 5-10 Web of Life 30-45 Teaching: Art Activation: Creating the Web of Life. Looking at Biomimicry and How Nature is in Relationship, how western science has used extractive and violent measures to build tools and systems of dominance. How Indigenous lifeways are founded on Original Instructions and Complex Systems of Reciprocity. How Contemporary Movements have adapted and built thriving systems of survival ie. Black Panthers and all the movements that were inspired through this movement. Restoration Activation: 2 Ivy removal in waterways and everyones' systems. Through removal, what are we then building? How do we move to make new systems to prevent erosion? What are methods and practices? How are we building, while we are also dimatling? How can we listen and learn from these systems? What is being harmed or exploited? How can we repair harm, and do harm reduction as we are building and dismantling? Skill Sets: Life Rafts, Survival Rings, Erosion Control, Planting Plan, Layers of Protection Lunch 30-40 Free Play 30 Group Exercise and Activation: Creating New Systems and Models through Biomimicry and BIPOC Knowledge Systems/Values. ART and Mapping (Community can choose to engage in all or none of the activities. Please know you are welcome.) more |
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South Meadow Blackberry PurgeJuly 30, 9am-12pm @ Discovery Park Even though we thought we got every root last year, blackberry has a way of hiding until it warms up. But now they are showing themselves and trying to gain a foothold again. We may spread mulch wherever we disturb the soil to make sure that weed seeds don't have a chance to sprout. We will likely have a chance to water some of the newly installed plants to make sure they make it through their first stressful summer. more |
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Frink Park Land & Community TendingJuly 31, 10am-4pm @ Frink Park Futures Rising is inviting you to nourish and restore the land. We will be tending the land where we have planted traditional foods and medicines. This space will center Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to come together to talk about possibilities, be held by the land and each other. In our deep need for community and the restoration of relation with the land we invite you to share space with us! During this time we will be reflecting on the teachings of interdependence and how the plant people can show us the way. We will be working on preparing the space for this years planting of traditional foods and medicines. Here is a loose agenda to center our youth in their learning: 7/31 Wednesday: Frink- Morgan Brown - Kinship Ecosystems Welcoming and opening protocal 15-20 Go over group agreements 5-10 Group Exercise and Activation: 30 Creating New Systems and Models through Biomimicry, BIPOC Knowledge Systems, and The Land Restoration Activation: 2 Ivy removal in waterways and everyones' systems. Through removal, what are we then building? How do we move to make new systems to prevent erosion? What are methods and practices? How are we building, while we are also dimatling? How can we listen and learn from these systems? What is being harmed or exploited? How can we repair harm, and do harm reduction as we are building and dismantling? Skill Sets: Life Rafts, Survival Rings, Erosion Control, Planting Plan, Layers of Protection Lunch & Meet Morgan 30-40 Learning with Morgan and Kinship Ecosystems Closing (Community can choose to engage in all or none of the activities, and tend to land restoration. Please know you are welcome.) more |
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UW day of service on the Burke Gilman TrailJuly 31, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail Private event for U.W. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Join us on the trail and help spread wood chips around the native plants to help them survive. We will be using pitchforks and wheelbarrows. Find muscles you haven't used for a while. more |
