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The King Conservation District will be holding a series of free workshops for property owners who live on marine shorelines of King County, with the first one held on Saturday, May 29th at Normandy Park City Hall.
Workshops will provide participants with an opportunity to learn about the ecological, geological, and vegetation management issues associated with owning property “Where the Water Begins.”
WHAT: “Where the Water Begins” workshop series for property owners of marine shorelines in King County.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Landowners interested in stable natural marine shorelines & in reducing the potential for erosion and landslides
WHEN/WHERE:
All workshops will be held from 9am – 12:30pm (indoor session) and 12:30pm – 3:30pn (optional lunch & field trip) on:
- Saturday, May 29th Normandy Park City Hall, Normandy Park WA
- Saturday, June 12th Vashon Maury Island Land Trust, Vashon WA
- Saturday, June 26th Discovery Park ELC, Seattle WA
INFO: From a flier:
Is your marine bluff or beach property eroding or jeopardizing your house? Do you want to manage vegetation to stabilize slopes while maintaining a beautiful view of Puget Sound?
The King Conservation District invites you to attend a FREE workshop developed for property owners along the marine shorelines of King County. The workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to learn about the ecological, geological, and vegetation management issues associated with owning property Where the Water Begins.
TOPICS:
- Understanding the Ecology of Marine Nearshore and Riparian Ecology
- Recognizing Coastal Geological Hazards
- Using Native Vegetation to Reduce Erosion & Improve Fish and Wildlife Habitat
FACILITATORS:
- Kollin Higgins, KC DNRP WLRD
- Peter Landry, City of Normandy Park
- Elliott Menashe, Greenbelt Consulting
- Brandy Reed, King Conservation District
Contact Brandy Reed to register or for more information (425) 282-1924 brandy.reed@kingcd.org.
Workshops are offered free of charge. Pre-order box lunches available for a fee of ~$12.50 ea.
Sponsored by the King Conservation District with funding from the WA Conservation Commission.
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Dennis Clark prepares to cut invasive weeds from Miller Creek. Photo Courtesy King Co. Parks.
Both Miller Creek and Walker Creek flow through the area, and both creeks are in need of your help.
An ad-hoc committee aimed at monitoring and studying both creeks is forming, and its inaugural workshop is scheduled for Wed., Sept. 24, from 7pm – 8:30pm at the Burien Community Center, Classroom 5, located at 425 S.W. 144th Street (map below).
At this workshop, participants will learn the answers to some of the following questions, and help provide answers to some other questions:
- How do we know about water quality, water quantity, and habitat conditions in Miller and Walker Creeks?
- What monitoring has been done in recent years?
- What monitoring is necessary to allow for analysis of trends?
- Can we better coordinate existing monitoring?
- What additional monitoring would we like to do in the future?
- And how are we going to use all the data that have been and will be collected? Five years from now, will monitoring give us the information we need to evaluate the health of these stream basins and make good decisions about future projects, programs, and policies?
Improving monitoring of water quality, water quantity, and habitat conditions is recommended in the Executive Proposed Miller and Walker Creeks Basin Plan. This workshop is intended to kick off an ad hoc committee effort to answer the questions listed above. Answering these questions will help everyone take better care of the land and water in the Miller and Walker Creek basins (basin boundary map).
The monitoring discussion is intended to produce recommendations on how local partners can conduct voluntary monitoring in the future. The outcome of this process will not affect the current monitoring for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as required by the Department of Ecology. The monitoring that has been and is being done by the Port of Seattle will be discussed, however, because it provides information on those portions of the creeks that flow through the airport property.
For more information, or to RSVP, please contact Dennis Clark, King County Public Outreach/Stewardship Coordinator, 206-296-1909.
