Magnuson Park Sand Point Head North Slope Restoration

We want to thank all the fantastic volunteers who came out today and helped to remove re-emerging invasive species along with Hailey and Bora! We continued to remove Himalayan blackberry and Canada thistle from polygon 2 and 3 today. If you are interested in taking part, please check the following link for more details regarding restoration events in Magnuson Park as well as elsewhere throughout the Seattle area!
https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/

🐾Our UW-REN Project Symposium was held today! 🥳 There we were able to discuss and present our group's accomplishments all thanks to the fantastic volunteers who made this restoration project a reality! 💚😊 Accordingly, our group would like to thank all those who have taken part in this project, as your contributions have been invaluable! We'd also like to thank our amazing Client, Tom Kelly, who has made it so that these volunteer events and this project as a whole was able to take place and be as effective as it was! In addition, we want to thank our Professors, Dr. Gold (UW Bothell), Dr. Updegrave (UW Tacoma), and Dr. Fridley (UW Seattle) for instructing our group throughout these past 8-months and giving us the best advice and input regarding this projects design, approach, and implementation! 📃Moreover, we want to thank Chloe from SER-UW Nursery and Eric Sterner for coordinating and organizing the acquisition of the 236 native plants we were able to install! 🌱🌲 Despite this capstone course reaching a close on June 11th, restoration events and continued stewardship of the site will remain ongoing (with an event taking place tomorrow!). If you are interested in taking part in the stewardship and continued restoration of this, as well as other sites within the greater Seattle area, please visit the link below! 🥾⛏
https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/
Thank you all! 💚- Magnuson Park Sand Point Head Restoration Team

A beautiful and sunny day at Magnuson park today 🌼! Hamoon, Anisha, and other wonderful volunteers worked on building site barriers, replenishing mulch, and rooting out re-emerging invaisve species today. As we head into the concluding weeks of our active project, we are hopeful that our efforts will eventually add onto the contiguous Magnuson forest. Thanks again to volunteers; to find out about future event opportunities please visit: https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/

What a beautiful day for restoration in Magnuson park! Our hard-working volunteers and Anisha worked on building a thorny barrier between the sand point head north slope site’s southern edge and the Cross Park Trail. The purpose of the barrier is to discourage animal and human disturbance so that the newly installed plants can thrive. We also cleaned up some re-emerging invasive Himalayan blackberry and Canadian thistle. In order to retain moisture and protect newly installed plants, we also replenished mulch rings. We appreciate the seattle community’s support on our effort, please visit https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/ to learn about our upcoming events!

Notably today Tony, one of our volunteers, mechanically removed a huge invasive Scotch broom from outside of our site! This species easily invades natural areas and forest lands. We can see this invasive species that is covered in golden yellow flowers in spring and summer near Kite hill. 💚Along with Hamoon, Bora, Tony and our client Tom Kelly, efforts have been continued removing re-emeging invasive species and watering the newly planted vegetation. 🌱⛏Invasive removal is intended for the following events to come, so if you are interested taking part in this, restoring other sites within the greater Seattle areas, please visit the link below!
https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/

🌱Thank you to all the fantastic volunteers who came out today and helped to restore the site along with Hailey and Bora! 💚We greatly appreciate all the help given in removing the last bit of invasives within the site!🥾⛏ There are still a few more non-native Canada thistle, Himalayan blackberry, and English ivy to remove, so if you are interested in taking part in this process, or in other restoration work around the Seattle area, please visit: https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/ to sign up!

Thank you so much to all who came out and helped to mulch, plant, and remove invasives this past weekend! 💚On the 1st Bora, Anisha, and volunteers helped to place mulch rings around newly established plants! Then, on the 2nd, Hailey, Hamoon, and volunteers continued this work and finished planting efforts by planting the last six thimbleberry shrubs! 🌱Not to mention, the placement of container cup barriers that day around some of the baldhip rose, salal and dull Oregon grape has helped to mitigate the threat of rabbit herbivory, which is a present danger as many cute rabbits have been found within our site 🐇. While this threat is being mitigated with physical barriers, we still need to remove resurging Himalayan blackberry, English ivy, and oneseed hawthorn! If you are interested in helping us with this invasive removal, or in restoring other sites within the greater Seattle area, please visit the link below!🥾🧤https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/

🤎🌳 Notably today one of our fantastic volunteers mechanically removed a huge invasive Sweetbriar rose from outside of our site! This species spreads easily via suckers and layering and can dominate areas within several years. Therefore, we greatly value all the hard work put into preventing this species from spreading to our site as well as to other areas within Magnuson park! 🏞💚
https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/sweet-briar-rose

🏞 Today's amazing volunteers have helped to improve the conditions within our site so much, we are so thankful! 💚 Along with Hailey, Hamoon, and our client Tom Kelly, efforts have continued to plant native shrub species such as baldhip rose, saIal, dull-Oregon grape, whilst removing invasive Himalayan blackberry! ⛏🌿Planting and invasive removal are intended for the following events to come, so if you are interested in taking part in this, or restoring other sites within the greater Seattle area, please visit the link below!🥾🧤https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/

With the help of today’s hard-working volunteers, Bora, Anisha, and our community partner Tom Kelly worked on planting. Tomorrow, our team will continue planting plants like Douglas firs, Sitka spruces, Western swordfern, oceanspray, thimbleberry, Indian plum, baldhip rose, and many more! We are looking forward to more planting events in the upcoming week, please sign up at https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/

🌲More work was done at the site yesterday!🌲Bora, Hailey, and our client Tom Kelly planted various native species as well as uncovered additional non-native Himalayan blackberry which was removed! If you are interested in taking part in further planting, as well as other future stewardship opportunities, please visit the link below! ⛏🥾🧤https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/

🎉We have begun planting! 🎉Thanks to Bora, Anisha, and Hailey staging plants yesterday, and to Hamoon, Bora, Anisha, and Hailey as well as our four fantastic volunteers accompanied by Dr.Gold, Dr. Updegrave, and Tom Kelly today, for planting so many species, including baldhip rose, salal, red-flowering currant, thimbleberry, and serviceberry to name just a few! 🌱 Not to mention, volunteers did an amazing job removing additional Himalayan blackberry and Canada thistle that has begun to grow within our site again. Thank you so much for all your involvement and effort!! If you are interested in taking part at our site or are interested in other additional restoration opportunities throughout the Seattle area please visit the link below! ⛏🥾🧤https://www.greenseattle.org/get-involved/volunteer/