A Community News Website for Broadview
Green Seattle Partnership is working with the Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment to start a residential and street-scape property tree program called the Tree Ambassadors. Tree Ambassadors will work in their own neighborhoods to help support… Read More
Volunteers are NEEDED for a work party at Carkeek Park Saturday, April 16th Help celebrate the 31st Annual Earth Day 2011 at Carkeek Park and Piper’s Creek Watershed by volunteering at this event. Youth groups, families and individuals welcome… Read More
On behalf of our Broadview Community Council members I attended two meetings this week. One meeting was our Northwest District Council on Wednesday evening at the Greenwood Senior Center and the other was the Seattle Community Council Federation… Read More
I have seen a lot of different programs for recycling cell phones, but this one caught my eye. I was amazed at how much good one phone could do….. Check out the story about how a Stanford graduate uses… Read More
Volunteers from the Carkeek Watershed Community Action Project are caring for 27,000 chum salmon fry at the Les Malmgren imprint pond in Carkeek park. Each year fry are obtained from the Suquamish Hatchery and held in a pond at Carkeek… Read More
As we reported in a post, last fall the state eliminated state funding for the Salmon in the Schools program that introduces school children to environmental subjects by raising and releasing salmon fry. Recently Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) provided… Read More
Love Carkeek Park? Consider Volunteering! In light of the recent elimination of staff and program closures to Carkeek Park and its Environmental Learning Center, volunteers are even more crucial to the survival of the park and its ecosystem…. Read More
Yesterday about thirty trees were removed from the grove of trees on the west side of Ingraham High School, to make way for a new addition to the school. As related in the news story here, many people… Read More
An important component of environmental education at Carkeek Park, and other locations, is being terminated due to budget cuts at the State Department of Fish and Wildlife. As reported in the Seattle Times, the budget changes voted in the… Read More
After the rains subsided last Sunday, I toured the neighborhood and visited Carkeek Park to see how the record rainfall (2.17” in 24 hours) affected our beloved park and salmon-bearing creek. The creek, which normally runs clear with… Read More
