What if you could time-travel to the Age of Dinosaurs, perhaps to wander through a misty forest and gather a few seeds? Could you plant your own little Jurassic Forest back here at home? It’s a bit like what the … Continue reading Jurassic Forest of West Seattle
Three housekeeping things to note: The link for seattlenaturealliance.org now goes a static home page. If you’d like to get to the latest posts (like this), follow the blog: seattlenaturealliance.org/blog/ We updated the About page, to clearly define our mission. We added Where We Stand, with links to our positions on issues. Continue reading Website updates
We attended the Green Seattle Partnerships Shareholders meeting on Sept 24. The event started with a tour of the West Duwamish Greenbelt, led by representatives from Seattle Parks and Seattle Nature Consortium. Seattle Nature Alliance had a table, a last … Continue reading GSP Shareholders Meeting
There are a couple of new additions to Schmitz Park, signs encouraging appropriate use:Located at the SW Hines and the Admiral/Stevens entrances to the park, they are a reminder to visitors to treat the park gently and with respect, as “The Forest Floor is Alive”. Schmitz Park, at 53 acres, includes some beautiful riparian habitat created by Schmitz Park Creek, and it is home to one last stands of old growth forest left in Seattle. The interpretive signs were designed and donated to Schmitz Park by artist/writer/designer Denise Dahn. She is a Co-founder and Director of Seattle Nature Alliance and … Continue reading New Signs in Schmitz Park
Since posting Summer Reading and Reading Challenges here it’s become clear that keeping up regular posts about great readings is unrealistic. There is simply too much fantastic writing about nature and cities out there! So here’s a listing of a few places to check online, where the writing is regular, timely, and always interesting. Keeping up with all of them is a challenge, but thankfully, most have options for staying in touch via email subscription, rss feed, Twitter, and of course, Facebook. The Open Voices Blog on Nature Sacred – regular pieces, and a weekly “Open Voices News Roundup”, with summaries … Continue reading Keeping up on reading
It seems you can’t go around a corner in a discussion about environment in Seattle these days without hearing about trees. Trees are in the news. Finally. There are the headline making stories like the removal of a dozen mature … Continue reading Trees
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