KCD Community Agriculture Conservation Resource Guide
Schools, individuals, non-profits, and places of worship can all expand access to healthy food and teach important natural resource stewardship in the urban landscape. The KCD Community Ag Conservation Resource Guide offers step-by-step guidance for establishing an urban garden to help people turn underutilized space into a productive community asset.
Click here to learn more.
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Kirkland Tour Highlights KCD/Lake Washington Christian Church Shoreline Restoration Partnership
As if on cue, a bald eagle soared overhead during a recent Twilight Tour at Lake Washington Christian Church, where community members, Earth Corps and KCD have worked over the past 10 years to transform a blackberry infestation into a wildlife sanctuary. Presented by KCD Resource Planner Ashley Allan and church members Kent Sullivan and Robert Moreno, the tour focused on restoration efforts that have improved the health of a stream and wetland running through the Kirkland property.
KCD is hosting another streamside tour at the Carrie Lewith Home in Lake Forest Park on Thursday, August 8.Click here to learn more.
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King Conservation District Rate Renewal Update
The current KCD program of work, and supporting rate structure, will expire in December. From 2015-2019 KCD programs have been largely supported with funding from a per-parcel rate and charge collected through King County. KCD has spent the last year working with stakeholders to develop a new proposed plan of work and supporting system of rates and charges. Last week, the KCD Board of Supervisors forwarded our proposal to the King County Council. The Council will decide on a finalized version of the proposal after they hold a public hearing later this year. (Date is TBD)
If you would like to learn more about the proposed program of work and supporting rate structure, or offer comments on your experience with KCD and our work, go to kingcd.org/ratesandcharges/.
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Presenter Spotlight: Ashley Allan
In her free time, you’ll find Ashley hiking and camping on our public lands. But, during the work day, she spends her time coordinating KCD’s Washington Conservation Corps Crews, visiting with a homeowner to talk about managing a streamside blackberry infestation, or surprising her coworkers with donuts back at the office. As a resource specialist, Ashley coordinates the Urban Shorelines program at KCD which gives technical assistance to homeowners living along streams and wetlands and plans and implements around ten projects yearly.
Join us at upcoming events to hear from Ashley about streamside restoration and how homeowners can take advantage of technical assistance site visits and other KCD’s services.
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Horse-Keeping at Two Horse Ranch
Alayne Blickle, creator and director of Horses For Clean Water, shares how Rita and Mark Hampson of Two Horse Ranch in Redmond, WA reduce mud, manage manure and make pastures more productive. Their suburban horse property looks nice, keeps their horses healthier, and is chore efficient for them as owners while protecting water quality along Bear Creek.
To learn more, click here.
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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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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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Join KCD 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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Want to learn ways you can support wildlife, enhance your property’s aesthetic, and reduce maintenance needs? Don't miss this FREE workshop for homeowners living along the water.
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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 woods. 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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Natural beauty, wildlife, ecosystem health, harvest income, family ties, privacy, and peace and quiet are some of the many reasons people value their woods. 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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