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Our orcas are endangered but it’s not too late! There is plenty we can do to save them. Orca Recovery Day is your opportunity to join with your local Conservation District and partner organizations and work to recover our critically endangered Orca whales. Click here to learn more and get involved.
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Streamside Tour of Renton/May Creek Area Restoration Project
In 2018, Barbee Mill homeowner Maria Moss attended a KCD Beautify and Care for Your Streamside Property workshop. By the Spring of 2019 KCD had completed a streamside buffer of native trees and shrubs to complement work already being done by the community. Now, the Barbee Mill HOA is hosting its own KCD event to showcase the project.
Come see how KCD can help you restore your streamside property.
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Assessing Wildlife Damage in Your Forest
A mature deer can eat 4 to 8 pounds of food a day and a mature elk can eat 15 to 20 pounds every day. Unfortunately, landscaping, gardens, and young tree and shrub seedlings are common targets of this appetite.
Learn the signs of browsing and rub damage on your plants, and some cost-effective prevention techniques.
Read more.
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Growing Grain in King County
On August 8, Carnation Farms started harvesting their Talisman Barley with guidance from WSU Bread Lab.
The grain harvest is part of the larger Carnation Farms Grain Trust project funded through a KCD Regional Food Systems grant. The project will ultimately put 20 acres of underutilized farmland into grain production (that's roughly 72,000 loaves of bread or 420,000 bottles of craft beer) as well as provide educational and networking opportunities among folks interested in growing and utilizing local grains.
Click here to learn more.
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It's Wildfire Season!
King County residents are breathing a sigh of relief that our skies aren't clogged with smoke this summer. But, wildfires have historically burned on the west side and happen regularly during dry summers and early fall when conditions are right.
Learn FOUR ways to make your home more wildfire resilient and see King 5's report featuring KCD's work helping build a more wildfire resilient community in Redmond.
To learn more, click here.
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Election Schedule to be Set at October Board of Supervisors Meeting
King Conservation District’s Board of Supervisors will hold a meeting at 5:00pm on October 14, 2019 at KCD’s office, 800 SW 39th Street, Suite 150, Renton, WA 98057, to adopt a resolution setting the date, time and location of an election to fill a current KCD Supervisor’s expiring term.
To learn more, click here.
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Natural beauty, wildlife, ecosystem health, harvest income, family ties, privacy, and peace and quiet are some of the many reasons people love their forests. Whatever your reasons are, this comprehensive university-based forestry class will help you get the most out of the land you love.
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Beavers are an important part of a healthy ecosystem. However, when they remove trees from your property and dam streams, they can often seem like a pest. At this workshop, we will discuss the many benefits of beavers and the ways you can live in harmony with them.
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Spend a morning outside helping to maintain trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and aquatic plants for projects across King County. Volunteers earn native plants that can be used to landscape their properties or donate to other organizations.
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Don’t miss this FREE class and stream restoration tour for homeowners living along bodies of water. Learn from restoration experts about managing stream, lake and wetland properties in a way that supports the environment and your land use goals.
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Join Joe Harrison, WSU Animal Science and Extension Specialist, and several local farmers for information on why, how, and when to test your hay stocks.
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Spend a morning outside helping to maintain trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and aquatic plants for projects across King County. Volunteers earn native plants that can be used to landscape their properties or donate to other organizations.
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Beavers are an important part of a healthy ecosystem. However, when they remove trees from your property and dam streams, they can often seem like a pest. At this workshop, we will discuss the many benefits of beavers and the ways you can live in harmony with them.
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Help our struggling Orca populations! Get involved on Orca Recovery Day to enhance Longfellow Creek in West Seattle. Your work will support healthy streams and the salmon our Orca depend on.
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Help our struggling Orca populations! Get involved on Orca Recovery Day to enhance Parr Creek in Bothell. Your work will support healthy streams and the salmon our Orca depend on.
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Join King and Pierce Conservation Districts along with Horses for Clean Water to see and learn techniques for getting a jump on winter by preparing horse farms for those dark, cold, blustery months. Make winter chores efficient, less stressful and healthier for your horses, you and the environment!
This class will be presented in both English and Spanish.
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¿Quieres aprender consejos prácticos cómo ideas para ganarle al barro y ser más eficiente en tus tareas en la época del año cuando esto es lo más importante?
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Get ideas for managing mud, utilizing native plants, and composting animal manure. See well-cared-for animal residents with reduced environmental impacts.
This tour will be presented in both English and Spanish.
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Visite esta pintoresca propiedad preparada para el invierno de 20 acres con caballos y alpacas, vea el manejo adecuado del barro y un hábitat saludable para los peces y la vida silvestre.
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Don’t miss this FREE workshop for homeowners living along the water. Learn from restoration experts about managing stream, lake and wetland properties in a way that supports the environment and your land use needs.
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At King Conservation District, we’re all about better ground. Better ground means taking important stewardship actions at home and in our communities to create healthy soil and water, to provide healthy food, and to conserve land, water, forests, wildlife and related natural resources. And you don’t have to go at it alone. You have a partner, your local conservation district.
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