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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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We Need to Hear from You!
Over the last year, KCD has held public hearings, taken comments, and received stakeholder feedback on our proposed 2020-2024 plan of work. Thank you to everyone who participated. Now, we're reaching the finish line and need your help. The King County Council is the final decider on approving KCD's plan of work and the corresponding funding it takes to get that work done. The County Council needs to hear from KCD partners, cooperators, and volunteers just how important the work we do is.
If you're interested in writing your Councilmember click here.
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How to Take a KCD Soil Nutrient Test Sample
Are you interested in getting a KCD Soil Nutrient Test, but are uncertain about how to collect your soil sample and get it submitted? Check out this handy video from Snohomish Conservation District and other helpful resources.
Get your FREE soil test today!
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KCD Welcomes Rainier Valley Corps Fellow Cly Samson
Clyzzel (Cly) Samson joined KCD in September as Community Agriculture Program Coordinator as part of a two year fellowship with the Rainier Valley Corps and Got Green's Green Pathways Fellowship Program. Cly is part of a family line of fishermen and farmers from a small province of the Philippines and is passionate about food justice. She believes that access to healthy food is a human right, not a privilege. Cly centers her activism in kapwa — the Tagalog word for togetherness. To her, food is a physical and spiritual way to connect with community, the Earth, the past and future generations.
Read more.
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Put Native Plants to Work on Your Horse Property (Slideshow)
Native plants have evolved over thousands of years, adapting to our local environment. They provide habitat for wildlife -- including native pollinating insects. And, because they're adapted to the climate and weather, they're inexpensive, resilient, low-maintenance, and beautiful. Be on the lookout for KCD's 2020 Native Plant Sale launch in November to get your own native plants.
Click here to learn more.
See our series of Horse Property Slideshows.
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Controlling English Ivy with Survival Rings
English ivy (Hedera helix) is a woody, evergreen, perennial vine commonly seen in urban and suburban forests in King County. The thick vines decrease light exposure and make trees vulnerable to tree bark disease, rot, and falling over during high winds.
KCD's Washington Conservation Corps member's put together some helpful videos to show how you can easily tackle your ivy.
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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Spend a morning outside maintaining trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and aquatic plants for projects across King County. Volunteers earn native plants that can be used to landscape their properties or donated to their favorite organization.
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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, wet 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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The 16th annual Focus on Farming conference "Nurturing Our Future" will be November 7, 2019 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA. This year’s conference will feature 24 workshops in 6 industry tracks, plus Focus on Forestry workshops.
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Spend a morning outside maintaining trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and aquatic plants for projects across King County. Volunteers earn native plants that can be used to landscape their properties or donated to their favorite organization.
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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 their favorite organization.
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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 value their forestland. Whatever your values are, this comprehensive university-based forestry class will help you get the most out of the land you love.
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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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