More trees, please! A recently launched program in Everett aims to add 3,000 trees around parts of the city, and they’re free to anyone who wants one. People and property owners in seven neighborhood areas can request a free tree from the Snohomish Conservation District.
Live oak trees dripping with Spanish moss and surrounded by azaleas make for a charming spring walk in Charleston, South Carolina. Shutterstock
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 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 MoreRead the full article in the North County Outlook.
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.
Read More"We cannot overstate how thankful and appreciative we are...it was a very special project for us.” - David Jackson
Photos and story by Kalvin Valdillez, Tulalip News
Read MoreSnohomish Conservation District partners with the city to install green stormwater infrastructure.
Photo by Katie Metzger - Tessa Anton, WCC crew member, puts the finishing touches onto the Bothell rain garden.
Read MoreThe 13th Place Garden is still thriving about a month after it was established by Denise Tarter and her neighbors in June. Denise attended one of SCD’s Lawns to Lettuce classes.
Photo courtesy of Denise Tarter.
Read MoreMcMahon 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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