The Reason I Wanted to Start a Blog...

The reason I wanted to start a blog is that so much has been happening in 2016.

*The City's Parks department received a grant which is funding a vegetation management plan. Actually, the EarthCorp proposal is titled, Proposal to provide habitat mapping, vegetation surveys, wetland delineations, and management planning for Twin Ponds Park in Shoreline, WA.

*It is extremely significant that as a result, the wetlands in the park were officially delineated for the first time.

*There was another unrelated report about both Twin Ponds Park and Paramount Open Space created by Otak, as an addendum to the environmental impact statement for the 145th Street Station Subarea.

*Of course, the big rezone (AKA "subarea planning") is nearing completion. Dare I say that this will create THE biggest impact on the park for the future?

*We had probably the wettest work party ever this spring. We called it Earth Day/Arbor Day Work Party, to acknowledge the City's celebration of Arbor Day. It was preceded by a short ceremony with a representative from Washington State Department of Natural Resources.

*Jim and I were recognized at a City Council meeting for Arbor Day.

*There was a person who camped in the Southern Forest. Of course, there's been others who've stayed in the park but this one uprooted a young cedar killing it and yanked off branches of another healthy conifer in order to fashion a barricade/camouflage.

*Then, there's this:

Who would have thought John's arboretum would be part of a game!?!