On Saturday, the Edmonds Stewards— with assistance from other local environment-focused groups— hosted a native plant giveaway at Edmonds’ Willow Creek Hatchery.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBeavers provide critical benefits for wetland ecosystems but can also alter the landscape in ways that are unpredictable for property owners and conservationists alike. New techniques are helping humans and beavers share the landscape with the goal of benefiting both parties.
Read MoreThousands 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.”
Read MoreAgroforestry has made its way into Snohomish Conservation District (WA), with landowner interest flourishing and new programs specific to forest farming in the works.
The conservation district has been implementing about a half a dozen agroforestry practices around the north Puget Sound for the past five years, but the rising interest in forest farming is taking the lead and shaping the district’s vision of the region’s future.
Read this article by the National Association of Conservation Districts here.
Read MoreJackie Emmerton, right, and granddaughter Sayler Pattison dig a hole to plant a tree at the Earth Day event from the city of Marysville on April 27. - Photo credit: Christopher Andersson
Read MoreQuestion and Answer session with Cindy Dittbrenner, SCD Natural Resource Program Manager
Photo by Hannah Letinich with The Nature Conservancy
Read MorePhoto of Barbara Brock and story by Lizz Giordano of The Herald.
Read MoreThe city and Snohomish Conservation District teamed up for the planting project, which was conceived in 2014. That’s when Bertrand and Alex Pittman got together, “when the emails started flying.”
Pittman was looking for a way to cool down water in the French Creek sub-basin. Warm temperatures affect the amount of dissolved oxygen in its tributaries. Low levels create a chronic barrier to fish passage, according to the conservation district.
Cripple Creek enters the Monroe Wetlands to the north, and then exits via the southwest corner. The waterway connects with French Creek, which then flows into the Snohomish River.
The conservation district has been focused on French Creek for a while, according to Pittman. Salmon struggle to survive in its warm waters.
Photo Credit: Kelly Sullivan, Monroe Montior
Read MoreThe New family, owners of Nourse Tree Farm in Snohomish County, has won Tree Farmer of the Year honor in Washington state.
Photo credit: Washington Tree Farm Program
Read MoreAway with those nasty blackberries, deadly nightshade, poison hemlock, invasive morning glory, ivy and thistles.
Residents of the Livingston Bay community on Camano Island received assistance from Snohomish Conservation District to plant much nicer, beach-friendly native plants in a project that has been in the works since 2013.
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