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"To contribute to the well-being of our community by fostering awareness, understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of our natural environment; and by preserving and enhancing parks and open spaces"
-- From our Mission Statement |
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"To contribute to the well-being of our community by fostering awareness, understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of our natural environment; and by preserving and enhancing parks and open spaces"
-- From our Mission Statement |
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Current projects Lyon Creek Enhancement Project with Mountlake Terrace: September, October, November 2008: Volunteers needed to re-vegitate relocated creek bed near 205th St NE and 37th Ave at the north end of LFP in Mountlake Terrace. For additional information click here. Flooding of Lyon Creek, December 3, 2007: Click here for photos and analysis of the flooding at Towne Centre. Our latest newsletter is available (Adobe pdf format). Read about our work as well as the latest news about important issues and developments in LFP. Previous newsletters are also available in our newsletter archive.
Celebrate Lake Forest Park—a Community Wildlife Habitat Celebrate Lake Forest Park becoming the 21st Community Wildlife Habitat in the nation certified by the National Wildlife Federation. The celebration will be at Third Place Commons in the Lake Forest Park Towne Centre, 17171 Bothell Way in conjunction with Lake Forest Park’s Dig-It Green Fair on Saturday, April 21 from 12 to 3 p.m. For more information, click here.
Summer Youth Adventure Opportunity: The Lake Forest Park Stewardship Foundation, the North Cascades Institute, the Student Conservation Association, and the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center are sponsoring the North Cascades Wild Summer Youth Adventure:
No experience necessary. You must be recommended by an adult other than a parent; you are interested, please leave the Stewardship Foundation a voice mail, with your number, at (206) 361-7076 or e-mail us at info@lfpsf.org. The lower Brookside stream restoration project at the Wilcox home, funded by the Community Salmon Fund and a King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks WaterWorks grant, was a great success. Please read more about this project and see the photos! July 9, 2005: We attended a training session offered by the Streamkeepers of Lake Forest Park, who have recently started monitoring the stream bed macroinvertebrate population, in addition to the water quality testing they have long performed. Their macroinvertebrate assessment follows a protocol developed by James Karr of the University of Washington, and has been widely adopted as one of the best indexes of the biological integrity of streams. Prof. Karr and his colleagues at the Center for Water and Watershed Studies have clearly shown that this index declines as the watershed becomes more developed and the area of impervious surfaces (e.g., driveways, roofs) increases. Visit the Streamkeepers of Lake Forest Park web site to learn more about this program. The Clallam County Streamkeepers also have extensive information on the assessment of macroinvertebrate populations. Read more about biological integrity and biomonitoring in this report published by Salmonweb. Here are some photos from this session. We're in the news! The July 15, 2005 issue of Enterprise has an article by Brooke Fisher on the macroinvertebrate sampling program as well as the Brookside Creek restoration project. April, 2005: We received the Environmental Legacy Award from the City of LFP, "In recognition of outstanding contributions to our community by maintaining, preserving, enhancing, and fostering awareness of our natural environment for current and future generations." Please click here to see the award. March, 2005: Going Green one Yard at a Time The Stewardship Foundation is again co-sponsoring the Lake Forest Park “Green Garden Fair,” also know as “Dig it!” The Second Annual fair will take place Saturday, March 19, from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Third Place Commons, Lake Forest Park Towne Centre. The fair will feature exhibitors from a variety of agencies and organizations supporting environmentally friendly gardening practices and watershed stewardship, as well as children’s activities and giveaways. This year’s theme is “Going Green one Yard at a Time.” In line with this theme, the Stewardship Foundation will be presenting information on our new Good Stewards backyard wildlife certification program. You can register on-line. It takes less than 15 minutes and many LFP residents already have all it takes to be certified. Read about us in an Enterprise article.
You've probably heard that the City of Lake Forest Park is updating its Comprehensive Plan, the core document which provides the vision and guidance for almost everything the City does. What you might not know is that the most recent draft of the Comprehensive Plan proposes rezoning of 192 lots in the City to higher density. The Stewardship Foundation believes that this is something each and every citizen should know about, since a zoning change like this can change the fundamental nature of where we live. Click here to read more about this. A babbling brook now meanders down its cobbled 80-foot course
in the forested back yard of Rick and Launa Hoy in Lake Forest Park, through a
corner of the new Grace Cole Nature Park, before it joins the main channel of
Brookside Creek and continues downstream to McAleer Creek. This section of
stream, now navigable to salmon and trout, replaced a perched culvert through an
earthen dam, which formed a backyard pond. It is one of numerous improvements
needed in Lake Forest Park to make all our streams passable to salmon and trout. For more information about this, visit our Brookside Creek Restoration Project page.
Our Salmon's Guide to Lake Forest Park won an award! The Enterprise (local newspaper) reports (2/28/2003), "The Lake Forest Park Stewardship Foundation produced the brochure, complete with a one-of-a-kind detailed map, to tell Lake Forest Park residents about their creeks, wetlands and city parks. It combines the 'wet geography' of the city with the history of the creeks along with information from professional biologists about protecting the fish and wildlife habitat from further degradation. The Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication found the booklet worthy of its Award of Merit, in company with professional publications from Microsoft, Boeing, and other business and industrial giants." Click here for a list of awardees (ours is the 3rd from the top on the list of Merit Award winners). For many years, students of the Brookside Elementary School have been hatching salmon eggs and releasing juvenile salmon in Brookside Creek. We have supported this project by replacing the equipment that maintains the cool temperature needed for the development of juvenile salmon before they are released. For more information and photos of the Salmon Release Project at Brookside school, click here. The Stewardship Foundation, in cooperation with the City of Lake Forest Park, has succeeded in preserving 11 acres of open space, including the wetlands comprising the headwaters of Brookside Creek. This land is the core of the Grace and Carl Cole Memorial Nature Preserve. Click here for more information.
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