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Bioblitz: The Fungus Among Us

October 11, 2010 by webmaster Leave a Comment

In partnership with the Puget Sound Mycological Society, and with support from the Arboretum Foundation, the UW Botanic Gardens are hosting this special event to inventory the various mushroom species living within the Washington Park Arboretum. Come join in this scientific scavenger hunt; no experience necessary. Spread the word: share this bioblitz flyer!

  • When: Thursday, October 28th
  • What time: 10am – 10pm; with 3 scheduled hunts & a public presentation at 6:30pm from PSMS President, Marian Maxwell.
  • Where: The Washington Park Arboretum, Graham Visitors Center
  • Who: Anyone & everyone, no experience necessary
  • Cost: Free
  • Contact: Patrick Mulligan, WPA Education Supervisor, 206-616-3381, simsigan@uw.edu

For more information, visit the UWBG website.

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Gateway to Chile Opening Celebration

October 7, 2010 by webmaster Leave a Comment

Gateway to Chile
Opening Celebration and Ribbon Cutting
Sunday, October 17, 1 to 4 p.m.
Pacific Connections Garden, Washington Park Arboretum – Free admission and parking

The Arboretum Foundation, the University of Washington Botanic Gardens, and Seattle Parks & Recreation invite you to join us to celebrate the official opening of the new Gateway to Chile display in the Pacific Connections Garden. The event is free and open to the public, and will feature:
  • Tours of the new garden by UWBG guides
  • Live music in the Pacific Connections meadow by Chilean folk group Sin Fronteras
  • A dance performance by Chilean folk troupe Violeta Parra
  • A ribbon-cutting ceremony
  • Complimentary refreshments (while supplies last)
For more information, call 206-325-4510 or visit the website.

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NOAA’s Watershed Open House

September 20, 2010 by webmaster Leave a Comment

View of a river and surrounding watershed

View of a typical Pacific Northwest river and its surrounding watershed - a healthy watershed is vital to the recovery of endangered species.

Save the Date for NOAA’s Watershed Open House!

The Watershed Program at NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center is happy to announce that its free biennial Open House will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 28, 2010, at the Museum of History and Industry. We will present our completed and on-going scientific research during three sessions: Puget Sound, Columbia River, and Science & Management Tools.

This year’s presentations will include topics ranging from salmon and climate change; estimating survival of salmon at different life stages; evaluating estuarine and urban restoration; Elwha dam removal; riparian processes, and much more.

See our website for a detailed agenda and please send an email to nwfsc.watershed.program@noaa.gov if you plan to attend.

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Friends of South Portage Bay – Volunteers Wanted

September 13, 2010 by webmaster Leave a Comment

Volunteers Needed

The mission of Friends of South Portage Bay is to reclaim an abandoned City of Seattle Property and create an urban habitat for wild life and a place the citizens of Seattle can enjoy nature. The site is 15th Street off Boyer Avenue and is at the dead end of that small street.

Next Group Work Party is Friday, September 24th at 10 am to 2 pm
Work Party volunteers will be supplied all tools and work gloves

We also welcome independent work and ask you and friends to adopt a Piece of the Park.

Volunteer could take 2 hours a month and weed the areas below. For more information contact Anne Preston @ 206-328-4135 or anne.preston@kerry.com

Adoption Area

Park Bench Mound
Rose Point
Tree and Snag Round Bed
Front Berm Outside
Front Berm Inside
Front Entrance Left
Front Entrance Right
Water Frontage by Gravel Path
Woodland Gravel Trail Right
Woodland Gravel Trail Left
Montlake Park Entrance to Woodland Trail

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Urban Forestry Open House

August 24, 2010 by webmaster Leave a Comment

The City of Seattle will be hosting an Urban Forestry Open House.  The Open House is an opportunity to hear about all of the City’s efforts to expand and enhance Seattle’s urban forest, including proposals to revise existing regulations for private property and street trees.  City staff will provide an overview of the City’s existing policy, programs, and resources as well as the specific regulatory proposals being considered.  Staff from the Office of Sustainability and Environment, Dept of Planning and Development, Dept of Transportation, Parks, Public Utilities, and City Light will be available to answer questions, connect citizens with programs, and take comments on the proposals.

Urban Forestry Open House

Tuesday, September 21st

City Hall, Bertha Knight Landes Room – 600 4th Avenue

5:30-7:30 open house

6:00 presentations

Please forward this meeting announcement to other interested parties.

For more information on city-wide tree efforts and the Urban Forest Management Plan, go to: www.seattle.gov/trees/.

For more information about DPD’s Tree Regulations Update process, go to: www.seattle.gov/dpd/planning/trees/. Or contact Bryan Stevens, (206) 684-5045, bryan.stevens@seattle.gov.

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Montlake Waterfront Park

August 2, 2010 by webmaster 3 Comments

An undeveloped and filled portion of the site along the south shore of South Portage Bay came to the attention of the neighborhood group, FABNIA (Fuhrman and Boyer Neighborhood Improvement Association) and the park site was cleared of huge stands of blackberries and revealed sweeping views of the Bay and a rich wildlife habitat. Volunteers donated many hours clearing blocks of concrete and invasive plants from the site. In 2007, as Friends of South Portage Bay, they were awarded a Seattle Department of Neighborhood matching grant to restore habitat. Design and construction of the new waterfront portion of the park with a new kayak launch, trails, native plants and snags for bird habitat was completed in 2009. Volunteers continue to donate many hours to help with maintenance and restoration.

We continue to fund raise for the addition of two signs for the park produced by a local artist. The project will cost $15,000 and we have raised $12,500.00 to date. Donations are tax deductible
Donors can send checks to:
Associated Recreation Council
860 Terry Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
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The check should be made out to:  Associated Recreation Council  with South Portage Bay referenced in the “For” line.
The 501 C3 tax I.D. is  51-0170717.

One sign will be a history of the area using some phrases from the below and incorporating some pictures:

Portage Bay was separated from Lake Washington by a narrow isthmus in the late 1800’s and was surrounded by stands of red cedar and Douglas fir. The isthmus was a regularly used portage that connected native tribes to the rich lake and river systems beyond Lake Union, to tribes on Union Bay and beyond and to burial grounds on Foster Island.
In the late 1800’s settlers dug a flume to connect Lake Washington to Portage Bay to transport logs to Lake Union. Tracks were added to transport coal from Newcastle across the isthmus to barges. Work on developing the Ship Canal and Montlake Cut continued from 1911- 1934; the Cut officially opened in 1917 and the Montlake Bridge in 1925.
Historic photos from 1885 and 1904 show Duwamish chief Cheshiahud residing with his family along the shore of the Portage Bay and paddling a large red cedar canoe, the principal form of transportation in the area. He fished for salmon, carved canoes from his residence on the east shore and was hired as a guide for recent settlers in the area.
Chief Cheshiahud continued to reside on the Bay after the reservation system was formed.
In the 1920’s, houseboats, floating on cast off cedar logs from local sawmills, began to populate Portage Bay and soon became a popular social gathering place during Prohibition. From the 1920- 1950 boatbuilders and designers lined the shores and prospered; many remain today. The Seattle and Queen City Yacht clubs established clubhouses, 1920 and 1934 respectively.

Looking west across South Portage Bay, note the regular row of old pilings: these served to anchor an “affordable housing” houseboat community until they were moved to make way for the Viaduct in the 1960’s.
In the late 1920’s civic leaders were concerned with directing the energy of youth from delinquency to positive activities and so began the effort to develop the present day playfield and ball park. Many challenges faced the project as swampy, frequently flooded land characterized the site. The park site was occupied by a Dahlia Farm and, to meet the demands of the owners, residents taxed themselves to buy the farm before work could start on the park. Over the years, fill from many projects such as Hwy 520 has been dumped on the site in an attempt to alleviate swampy conditions.

The second sign will focus on Beavers and other wild life in the “hood.”

Several colonies of beavers call South Portage Bay home.  They have constructed lodges for protection and to raise their annual brood of 4-6 kits. One lodge is hidden along the south shore of the bay, another is quite visible below the Montlake exit of the Viaduct. When the water lilies appear in late spring, it’s common, in the dusk hours, to see as many as six-eight beavers munching the leaves and stems of the lily pads, swimming, diving and occasionally slapping the surface of the water with their tails.
Each monogamous pair of beavers will provide a home for the current year’s offspring and last year’s. After two years, offspring venture off to found their own colonies.
(The sign will have a drawing showing cross cut of lodge – see below)

In the winter months, the beavers shift their diet to woody plants. Notice the distinctive gnawed stumps and limbs of cottonwood, alder and willow near the park shore; good examples are on the point west of the kayak launch. Young trees surrounded with wire fencing are being protected from beavers by park volunteers.

South Portage Bay is a rich wildlife habitat in spite of its dense urban surroundings.
Resident and migratory birds regularly seen throughout the year include the Great Blue Heron, eagle, osprey, mallards, gadwalls, American coots, buffleheads, mergansers, Pied- billed grebes, scaups and red winged blackbirds.
(The sign will have simple drawings showing many of these birds – see below)

Chinook salmon migrate through the Montlake Cut and some venture into South Portage Bay where small and largemouth bass, a predator fish, await them beneath the lily pads.

 

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