Lynnwood awarded $1.3 million federal grant to revitalize urban forests

Lynnwood awarded $1.3 million federal grant to revitalize urban forests

The City of Lynnwood is receiving $1,308,198 of the Urban and Community Forest Grant for its South Lynnwood Urban Forestry & Stewardship Program. Overall, municipalities in Washington state were awarded a total of $36,365,854 in funding from the grant for 2023. The United States Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service awarded more than $1 billion in competitive grants this fall to plant and maintain trees, combat extreme heat and climate change and improve access to nature.

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Millions of dollars for ‘tree equity’ head to Snohomish County

Millions of dollars for ‘tree equity’ head to Snohomish County

Thousands of trees are coming to urban areas in western Snohomish County.

“We’re doing 100% underrepresented communities,” said Linda Lyshall, the executive director of the Snohomish Conservation District. “We really wanted to address that tree equity concern, where you have urban areas where there’s just no greenery.”

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Community offers ideas about priorities for local watershed improvements

Community offers ideas about priorities for local watershed improvements

The City of Mountlake Terrace and the Snohomish Conservation District hosted an online discussion Thursday about local watersheds to gather residents’ ideas on which local creeks and lakes are most in need of improvement.

During the hour-long webinar, Stormwater Program Manager Laura Reed provided an overview on the status of the city’s watersheds, talked about fish use and passage in local creeks and Lake Ballinger, and also discussed other watershed-wide factors such as growth potential, water, quality, pollutants and the impacts of heavy traffic.

Read this article by MLTnews.com here.

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Snohomish Conservation District honors Lynnwood resident Carol McMahon for rain barrel projects

Snohomish Conservation District honors Lynnwood resident Carol McMahon for rain barrel projects

McMahon won the Conservation Leader of the Year Award for her use of SCD cost-share program to install a rain garden in her front yard in 2013. In 2017, district officials were happy to hear that she had also expressed interest in being the recipient of free rain barrels for its partnership project with the City of Lynnwood.

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