{"id":6436,"date":"2011-07-27T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustainablewestseattle.org\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2011-07-27T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T18:52:15","slug":"help-restore-native-forest-in-west-duwamish-greenbelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/27\/help-restore-native-forest-in-west-duwamish-greenbelt\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Restore Native Forest in West Duwamish Greenbelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nature Consortium<\/a>\u00a0is seeking volunteers on a regular basis for\u00a0Urban Forest Restoration in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/parks\/park_detail.asp?ID=4401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duwamish Greenbelt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The work parties meet every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the West Duwamish Greenbelt in West Seattle, locations within the greenbelt vary, but you can get directions to the work party location for a particular day by RSVP-ing to the sign-up page on their website &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturec.org\/volunteer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.naturec.org\/volunteer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwren\/capstone\/past\/west_duwamish.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Duwamish Greenbelt <\/a>is the largest contiguous forest in the city of Seattle, stretching from West Seattle to Burien. It includes 182 acres of park land and another 300 acres in privately owned land.<\/p>\n<p>Foxes, red-legged frogs, hawks, and bald eagles are found within the greenbelt. Each work party begins with a short informal forest ecology workshop, and we spend the remainder of the time performing various restoration activities, including planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive species, mulching previously-planted areas, and more.<\/p>\n<p>To connect art into this project we hire local musicians to perform in the woods during many work parties.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to sign up, contact Lizzie Jackson (Petrin),\u00a0206-923-0853, <a href=\"mailto:lizzie@naturec.org\">lizzie@naturec.org<\/a>,\u00a0Restoration Project Coordinator, Nature Consortium, Youngstown Cultural Arts Center (4408 Delridge Way SW) suite #107, first floor right near top of ramp.<\/p>\n<p>Also checkout out the Nature Consortium&#8217;s web at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.naturec.org<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nature Consortium\u00a0is seeking volunteers on a regular basis for\u00a0Urban Forest Restoration in the Duwamish Greenbelt. The work parties meet every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the West Duwamish Greenbelt in West Seattle, locations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/27\/help-restore-native-forest-in-west-duwamish-greenbelt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/27\/help-restore-native-forest-in-west-duwamish-greenbelt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-community","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tox-ick.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}