Category: Volunteer Events
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A Father and Daughter Bond Over Volunteering with Parks
Anyssa and Will Eng are a daughter and father duo who volunteer with the King County Parks Volunteer program. After being introduced to forest restoration through the Youth Conservation Corps, Anyssa joined our public volunteer events with her father! We caught up with them to learn more about their experience volunteering as a family.
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Highlights from the King County Parks 2023 Volunteer Program
Each year the King County Parks Volunteer Program and contracted partner organizations host volunteer events in parks across the county. Together with our partners in 2023, we led hundreds of events with more than 4,900 volunteers performing restoration, park improvement, trail maintenance, and more.
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Happy Duwamish Alive Day!
On October 19th we celebrated Duwamish Alive Day with events at North Green River Park and White Center Heights Park. For 13 years, Duwamish Alive Day has been a regional day of habitat restoration events organized by the Duwamish Alive Coalition whose collaborative efforts aim to improve the health of the Green-Duwamish Watershed. This year,…
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Notes from the field: Day of Caring Wrap-up
Today’s guest plogger is Charlie Wakenshaw from our Volunteer Program Last Friday, Sept 13, was United Way Day of Caring, a day we look forward to all year because it brings members of our community together to lend support for the public lands we all share. In partnership with the United Way of King County,…
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Another Planting Season in the Bag
Three King County Parks programs are making great progress towards our county-wide goal to plant One Million Trees by 2020. King County Parks Volunteer and Restoration Program and our many community partners planted 41,076 conifers and 10,967 deciduous trees in 2018 for a whopping total of 52,043. Since the start of the 2019 planting season,…
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705,840!
King County Parks enjoyed some quality time with County Executive Dow Constantine in Big Finn Hill Park today to celebrate progress toward the county’s admittedly audacious goal to plant One Million Trees by 2020. Together with 80 partnering organizations, we’ve planted 705,840 trees in King County. We are SO close! The Executive wholeheartedly encouraged anyone who…
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Weekend of service
“Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Over the holiday weekend our staff,…
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Day of Caring Re-cap
The King County Parks Volunteer Program hosted six different United Way Day of Caring Events in our parks. More than 150 volunteers helped with weeding, planting, pruning, digging….the list goes on! HUGE thank you to everyone who was involved in making this day a success. Here’s some of what we accomplished: White Center Heights Park Starbucks…
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Marymoor’s Waking Dream of Healthy Trees
Volunteers from Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA installed mulch rings around 40 trees near the Willowmoor entrance to protect them from damage and drought this summer. Cirque staff have been enjoying the greenery, mountains, and occasional sunny days here in Washington. LUZIA will be wrapping their run at Marymoor this weekend and are headed to Denver next. We…
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@ Work So You Can Play: Grand Ridge
Prep work underway for a new rock turnpike on the Water Tower Loop Trail at Grand Ridge. Staff are prepping the area for work parties with our peeps the Washington Trails Association (WTA). Want to join in the fun? You can bring your pumpkin spice latte.
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Volunteer Spotlight: Appreciation Dinner 2016
Guest blogger: Matt Fieser, Veteran Fellow Intern – King County Parks Volunteer Program When I tell people that I work for King County Parks, the first question they always ask is, “do you work with Chris Pratt?” Hilarious. No, I don’t know or work with Chris Pratt, but my time working with the King County…
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Tree Planting with Two Rivers School
We are fortunate to have such an amazing array of partners who help us maintain our world-class parks, trails and open spaces. One such partner is the Two Rivers School from North Bend – they’ve been helping us plant native vegetation and remove invasive plants on our properties (in the area) for over ten years!…
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Check out the new interactive map that highlights 24 restoration projects around King County
Did you know that King County Parks acquires lands for both recreational and environmental conservation purposes? In 2015, King County Parks worked on a total of 24 restoration sites throughout the park system and planted over 25,000 native trees. The properties we acquire come in a variety of conditions. The majority of the sites are…
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Volunteer Opportunity 6/25: Duthie Hill Park
Calling all kindred spirits! We are in need of volunteers this Saturday, 6/25 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m at Duthie Hill Park. Volunteers will be helping with invasive plant removal in the planting areas around the main parking lot. Families, individuals and groups are welcome. Contact Lina Rose, Volunteer Program Coordinator, for more information…
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National Trails Day Love from Eddie Bauer
Eddie Bauer‘s staff was kind enough to come out and help us do some trail work at Cougar Mountain, Big Finn Hill and Soos Creek in honor of National Trails Day. Hugs all around. If you’d like more pics, you can always find them over here.
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Trail maintenance brought to you by REI
REI joined us for some trail maintenance at Green River Natural/O’ Grady. This site gets a lot of equestrian use, so they kept the trail wide, trimmed low hanging branches and worked on drainage. Large group of people, so they managed to get quite a bit done. Thank you much REI, your help is always appreciated.
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Photo Diary: Tahoma School District forest ecology field trip at Ravensdale Park
In the past week, every 7th grader (120-190 students per day) in the Tahoma School District participated in a forest ecology field trip led by King County Parks staff. These young arborists spent the day rotating through three unique and interactive stations at Ravensdale Park and the Cemetery Reach Natural Area. At the first station, teachers…
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Happy horses heart our Taylor trails
Together with the Tahoma Chapter of the Backcountry Horsemen of Washington and Washington Trails Association, we sliced through the shiny blue ribbon and celebrated our brand spankin’ new trailhead at Taylor Mountain Forest. And it was already being put to good use by the 30 some horses and their humans and trucks and trailers! Funded…
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1 down, 999,999 to go!
Today, King County Executive Dow Constantine launched the 1 Million Trees campaign, an ambitious project to plant one million trees across King County by 2020 to combat climate change, promote healthy forests, and make our communities healthier and more resilient for all residents, be they people, fish, birds, or orcas! In addition to kids from…
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It’s Official! Happy Volunteer Appreciation Day
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Volunteer with King County Parks this Sat., Nov. 7!
This Saturday, we have FOUR volunteer events happening in King County Parks and we want to see you there! Volunteers are an integral part of our parks system as they help maintain out stream corridors and urban forests by planting native trees and shrubs to improve the area’s wildlife and water quality. It’s a fun…
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Upcoming Volunteer Events in King County Parks- Autumn 2015
Volunteering with King County Parks is a great way to give back to the community, learn tangible skills, satisfy service learning requirements and enjoy the outdoors! Families, groups and individuals are all invited to get involved with our volunteer program. Here are the upcoming volunteer events with King County Parks’ this coming autumn: Sept. 12…
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The kids are alright
A couple classes from Carnation Elementary walked down to join the Snoqualmie Tribe, who just happened to be hosting a planting event today along the Tolt river. We were privileged to provide support, and weren’t alone. Turns out Mountains to Sound Greenway and King County’s Stewardship Partners are also big on that whole restoration/education thing.…
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Microsoft – Intern Day of Caring
Microsoft was kind enough to loan their interns, and they were out in force in King County Parks yesterday. Parksmonkey made it around to document their work at Tanner Landing, Redmond Ridge and along the Burke-Gilman Trail. Enjoy, and for more photos hit up our Flickr feed.
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Native tree planting at Soaring Eagle Park
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Completing the cycle of a living Christmas tree
We survived the holiday season and we’re rounding the corner to spring, which means prime planting time for some awesome habitat restoration! A number of upcoming volunteer planting work parties has got us especially excited because we have a large donation of native plants and trees coming our way from Swansons Nursery. King County Parks…
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Join us this Saturday for a volunteer work-party!
Could there be any better place to spend a few hours this Saturday for a volunteer work-party-extravaganza in celebration of National Public Lands Day? This is it! Please join us on National Public Lands Day for a special volunteer work-party in partnership with Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust and REI Seattle. National Public Lands Day…
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The secret ingredient in our volunteer work-parties is _____________.
We need a recipe for a successful volunteer-work party just like you need a recipe for your grandmother’s famous rhubarb pie. While we provide the tools and fresh air for what makes a really rewarding experience, we cannot taste the fruits of our efforts without one core ingredient – that’s YOU! Please join us on…
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It’s a birthday-volunteer-parky-park-mega-party-jamboree-madness-palooza-shindig!
This Saturday, it’s the birthday party of the year and you’re invited! While we can’t promise that anyone is going to jump out of a giant birthday cake, we can promise that you, your family and friends will have a blast celebrating 75 years of awesome with King County Parks. And there’s no better place…
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We’re havin’ a party and everybody’s invited!
Turning seventy-five may inspire some people to gold-plate their Senior Citizen cards, but we here at King County Parks aren’t slowing down one bit! Instead, we’re throwing a bash, Parks-style, with trees, trails, and treats! Join us as we celebrate 75 years of parks, trails, open space and general awesometicity with a big she-bang on…