The Green Seattle Partnership Blog
Forest Steward Spotlight: Tim Garland
What lead you to start working as a Forest Steward? I love birds, and for years have spent countless hours in Discovery Park watching, photographing and generally enjoying the huge variety of bird species found in Discovery Park. Discovery Park has also been an...
Extreme Heat and Seattle-Area Urban Heat Islands
Things are Heating up in Seattle We have been experiencing more extreme heat events in the Pacific Northwest, and heat waves are expected to become more frequent with climate change. In an analysis of summer temperatures in 60 of the largest U.S. cities, a report from...
Get to Know Your Native Berries!
The summer months make for a "berry" tasty time out in the forest. Walking through Seattle's parks at the start of summer, you can easily spot the peachy colors of salmonberry fruit hiding in the foliage; while later in the summer, you start to notice the deep-blue...
Blackberry Bonanza
Most of the time removing aggressive Himalayan blackberry involves cutting thorny canes, digging up brainy-looking roots, and suppressing regrowth with thick layers of mulch. This time of year, for just a few weeks, the work gets a little more delicious. Removing...
Arts in Nature Festival
FREE Festival at Camp Long - June 29th & 30th Regular visitors to Camp Long are already familiar with the park’s towering forests and the active restoration projects taking place through the Green Seattle Partnership. This weekend, however, Camp Long will be...
Native Plants for Attracting Native Pollinators
Both nationally and worldwide, experts are watching as pollinator populations are on a steady decline due to issues of pesticides, pollution, pests, diseases, and most glaringly habitat loss and fragmentation. As the Green Seattle Partnership works with the goal to...
Community Science in Seattle
What is community science? Community science is a way for volunteers to participate in the collection of scientific data. The data collected are often used for large-scale projects, where it would be impossible for professional scientists to collect all the necessary...
Orca Action Month
Everything is connected from the tree tops to the whales’ flukes. How is your work as a volunteer supporting the health of our local Southern Resident orcas? This is a question we should be considering, especially during June, which is Orca Action Month....
Finding Art in Nature
For 45 minutes, which can be an eternity in kindergartner time, the students hauled buckets of mulch and dutifully emptied them around young native plants. Then finally, it was time to build. On a sunny Friday along Longfellow Creek, teaching artist Jules Hepp led...
Poison Hemlock Gets a Noxious Weeds Promotion
It is now required to remove poison-hemlock on public property in King County. At the 2019 Weed List Hearing the King County Noxious Weed Control Board added poison-hemlock to the list of regulated noxious weeds for King County, with control required on public...
Duwamish Alive!
An Earth Day Celebration April, also known as Earth Month, has come and gone; but it's always the time of year when folks in our communities are looking for ways to give back to the environment. You’ve probably heard of Earth Day which is celebrated every year on...
Bird Alley Restoration in Discovery Park
Bird Alley: A Hostpot for BiodiversityDiscovery Park's Bird Alley is properly named due its hotspot status for bird abundance and diversity. In Seattle's largest park, this area is very high profile and visible to the public due its proximity to popular nearby...