Seattle Environmental Equity Projects Now Being Accepted!
The King Conservation District (KCD) – Seattle Community Partnership Grant Program is requesting applications from organizations and community groups committed to improving Seattle’s natural resources and addressing environmental injustice.
Letters of Intent are due by 5pm on Monday, July 15, 2019. For more information, go to kingcd.org or contact Jessica Saavedra, 425-282-1906.
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Bellevue Botanical Garden Gets Native Plant Boost from KCD
The Bellevue Botanical Garden offers students, and the rest of us, a place to find inspiration and know-how for a wide variety of plants. They recently were able to revamp their Native Discovery Garden with over 120 varieties and 1000 new plants thanks to a KCD Grant.
Click here to learn more.
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Mercer Island Students Help Enhance Pine Creek
Students from the City of Mercer Island VOICE Program volunteered their time to support a KCD Urban Shoreline project in Sammamish. The students learned about the value of native plant buffers along shorelines while getting their hands dirty laying mulch and helping out at the project site.
To learn more or volunteer, click here.
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KCD to Hold Public Hearings on Rate Renewal
Notice is hereby given that King Conservation District’s Board of Supervisors has scheduled public hearings for Monday, July 22, 2019, commencing at 6:00 p.m. in the Emerald City Room of the Lindbloom Student Union Building of Green River College located at 12401 S.E. 320th St., Auburn, WA 98092, and for Wednesday, July 24, 2019, commencing at 6:00 p.m. at the Phinney Center located at 6532 Phinney Ave N., Seattle, WA 98103 in order to gather information and to receive public comment on the proposed system of rates and charges and corresponding plan of work being considered for adoption by the Board of Supervisors. This proposal is pursuant to RCW 89.08.405 and RCW 89.08.400 to fund KCD’s conservation activities and programs. Information regarding the public hearing may be obtained from KCD’s website at kingcd.org/ratesandcharges.
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Where the Water Begins Presenter Spotlight
Ask Kollin Higgins about his favorite marine animal and you may be surprised to learn it’s not the salmon he spends his time protecting but rather the unassuming ratfish, with its large front teeth and beautiful swimming technique. Kollin, Senior Ecologist for King County Department of Natural Resources, will be presenting at King Conservation District’s July and August Where the Water Begins workshops about salmon, ratfish, and how to protect marine fish and wildlife when you live on Puget Sound.
Click here to learn more and sign up.
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Learn what it takes to return your stream to a more natural state and support fish & wildlife habitat. Tour a shoreline restoration project and see how native plants can revitalize an area once overrun by invasive weeds.
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Join King Conservation District staff for an educational and impactful volunteer event at our Native Plant Nursery in Renton. Spend a morning outside helping to maintain trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and aquatic plants for projects across King County, while earning native plants for your own project or landscaping.
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Is your marine bluff or beach property eroding or jeopardizing your house? Do you want to manage vegetation to stabilize slopes while maintaining a beautiful view of Puget Sound?
Join us for a FREE workshop & beach walk developed for property owners along the marine shorelines of King County.
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Visit Wild Canary Farm to learn how KCD Board Supervisor Jim Haack and his wife Katie raise Animal Welfare Approved and Certified Grass Fed beef and do intensive rotational grazing.
Learn about pasture health best management practices and KCD's equipment loan program.
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How to Stop Invasive Weeds
July 14, Vashon
Come see how a private landowner on 5 acres on Vashon has managed Canadian Thistle, Tansy Ragwort, and Himalayan Blackberry on her property using inexpensive, convenient, and non-toxic methods. KCD will be on hand to demonstrate how to do a soil test and talk about equipment loan and other free services for rural landowners. Email marchpower@yahoo.com to register and get directions to the location.
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Join King Conservation District at St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church in Burien to help the community grow a garden. There will be a preschool garden, two stock tanks and some raised beds to construct and fill. This is a family-friendly event!
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Dead and dying trees have proliferated throughout western Washington. Washington State University (WSU) Extension Forestry will be giving a free public seminar to explain why so many trees are dying right now and what property owners can do.
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Is your marine bluff or beach property eroding or jeopardizing your house? Do you want to manage vegetation to stabilize slopes while maintaining a beautiful view of Puget Sound?
Join us for a FREE workshop & beach walk developed for property owners along the marine shorelines of King County.
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Learn what it takes to return your stream to a more natural state and support fish & wildlife habitat. Tour a shoreline restoration project and see how native plants can revitalize an area once overrun by invasive weeds.
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Learn what it takes to return your stream to a more natural state and support fish & wildlife habitat. Tour a shoreline restoration project and see how native plants can revitalize an area once overrun by invasive weeds.
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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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