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KCD Rate Renewal Approved In
9-0 Vote!
On Wednesday, December 4, 2019, the King County Council unanimously approved a new 5-year rate structure for King Conservation District.
Thank you to everyone who held meetings, wrote letters, made calls, hosted site visits, and otherwise participated in our Rate Renewal process. Most importantly, thank you to staff, cooperators, and partners for the amazing conservation work you do every day. Because of your efforts, both in these past few weeks, and everyday, the King County Council wholeheartedly endorsed our Rate Renewal proposal.
Click here to read more and thank your councilmember!
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Candidate Filing Period for KCD Board Position Closes Dec. 12th
KCD is led by an all-volunteer, five-member board of supervisors.
Board members contribute local perspectives on important natural resource management and conservation issues, seek feedback about conservation programs from district residents, set KCD policy, and direct KCD’s work plan and budget.
Candidate qualifications/application materials are due by December 12, 2019 at 5:00 p.m to KCD.
The election is to be held Tuesday, February 11, 2020.
Potential candidates may visit kingcd.org/elections to find more information about KCD and qualifying for the election.
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Wild Ginger - Native Plant Sale Spotlight
Looking for a lovely native groundcover? Wild ginger has you covered! It will bring broad, heart-shaped leaves with springtime dark purple flowers to your garden.
And, the roots can be eaten fresh or dried and ground as a substitute for conventional ginger! Click here to learn more.
The KCD Native Plant Sale is taking orders! Pick-up is Saturday, March 14 but ordering is happening now!
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Rooted Teens Volunteer with KCD and City Soil
Carnation Farms Rooted Teens volunteers supported KCD and partner projects throughout the summer of 2019 by spending one day each week learning about, and helping with, KCD projects on farms and restoration sites.
Read more.
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Three Tips for Working with Professional Contractors on Forest Projects
Invasive species control work, like the Ivy removal described in our previous blog posts, and your property’s situation may be daunting to take on by yourself.
A forestry or ecological restoration contractor can typically complete invasive species control, brush control, planting trees and shrubs, and tree thinning.
Read more.
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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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Join local forest experts from WSU and KCD for free seminar to learn about what’s happening, why it’s happening, what it means for your property and what you should/should not be doing.
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Join local forest experts from WSU and KCD for free seminar to learn about what’s happening, why it’s happening, what it means for your property and what you should/should not be doing.
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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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Join King Conservation District to enhance Longfellow Creek, one of four salmon bearing streams in Seattle, by removing invasive plant species that threaten the health of our waterways.
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Join local forest experts from WSU and KCD for free seminar to learn about what’s happening, why it’s happening, what it means for your property and what you should/should not be doing.
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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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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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