The Green Seattle Partnership Blog
The Herons of Commodore Park
Amidst the clamor of the Ballard Locks – loudspeakers blaring, trains rumbling, bells ringing, visitors shouting, and sea lions barking as they scoop up migrating salmon – you may catch the sound of an avian squawk. Looking closer, into a canal-side grove of red...
Green Seattle Day 2017 Success!
This year we broke some Green Seattle Day records and it's all thanks to you, our volunteers! Despite being the coldest November 4th on record since 1973, we still had over 1,200 volunteers come out to 22 parks for our 12th annual Green Seattle Day celebration! With...
Cooper’s Hawks in our Parks: Results from the 2017 Survey
"Five years ago I would never have believed there would be at least 44 nest-building pairs in Seattle." ~Ed Deal As the Green Seattle Partnership continues to restore Seattle’s forests, it is important to keep an eye on the local fauna gracing our parks. The...
My First Green Seattle Day – Taking a Look Back on Our Forests
Trees are the legacy of Green Seattle Day My first Green Seattle Day was 2008. I was a 25-year-old AmeriCorps volunteer with the Cascade Land Conservancy and it was my term’s opus to coordinate this volunteer event at Seward Park. 9 years later I can go back...
Flickers, wetlands, and trees: Our new restoration sites benefit entire urban havens
The end of summer heralds a new and exciting phase for the Green Seattle Partnership. As fall descends, many forested parklands are set to either begin their restoration, or start building on work first undertaken in 2016. One of these sites is Flicker Haven Natural...
Pollution Found in our Mosses Reveals Seattle’s Traffic Impacts
There is life up in the tree canopy. Amanda Bidwell climbs bigleaf maples. Finishing her Master's work at University of Washington last June, she just shared some dazzling and troubling results about hot-spots of heavy metal pollution in our epiphytic mosses. Her...
Seattle U lab studies wildlife responses to urban land use
Wildlife is one thing some people hope to spot in their favorite park, or even in their backyard. Green Seattle Partnership caught up with Professor Mark Jordan to hear some insights about a multi-year carnivore study his Seattle University Wildlife Lab is carrying...
Minimizing Mountain Beaver Damage
Each year Green Seattle Partnership staff and volunteers are working hard to restore forested parklands across the city. We are always on the lookout for better ways to get the work done. It could be a new tool, a new way to deal with weed debris, or remove a...
Let’s Practice Plant Identification
At its bleeding heart, the Green Seattle Partnership depends on the hard work of nearly 200 volunteer Forest Stewards who manage a section of a public natural area. Stewards remove invasive vegetation, manage community volunteers and install Pacific Northwest native...
Searching for Big Trees
Seattle Parks and Recreation Plant Ecologists wrapped up the June Phase 4 forest assessments. We made site visits to some of the oldest Green Seattle Partnership restorations in the West and East Duwamish Greenbelts. Some of the trips helped to verify what our...
Forest Steward Spotlight – Tim Jaureguy
Meet Tim, our new Forest Steward up at Northacres Park! The Green Seattle Partnership team has been waiting for years to find a steward for Northacres, and we couldn't be happier to have Tim on board to help invigorate work at this park. Learn more about Tim and what...
Letting the Light Shine Through
We take intentional steps to initiate and accelerate the healthy recovery of the city’s forested parkland. Over the past ten years of the program, we have realized restoration can take many forms, and a one-size fits all approach won’t always work in order...