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.
Category: Volunteer Events
News and notices about volunteer opportunities with King County Parks
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.
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…
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…
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…
