They Spoke For the Trees! …and the fish, birds, and water too

What is good is that everyone can participate.  You don’t have to be a certain age or super-strong to plant a tree. Boy, it was a cold one!  This Saturday, February 18th, FCRW and King County Parks hosted nearly 80 volunteers of all ages at one of our newest restoration sites, Marymoor Wetlands at the [...]

Read Full Post »

The Watershed Report: Bringing it Home and to the Capitol

“That was the most inspiring presentation I have heard all session.” -Representative, Laurie Jinkins, Tacoma The Maple Valley representatives of the Watershed Report team have been honing their speaking chops at home and on the road.  These bright students shared the latest sustainability trends in their own backyard at the 2nd Annual Tahoma Middle School Community Screening on Friday, January 13th [...]

Read Full Post »

Tyson’s Story–Tales of a New Board Member

Everybody has their own story about how they first became aware of the “Friends” – the Friends of the Cedar River Watershed, that is.  Maybe you were visiting the Ballard Locks on a Saturday in July or the Renton Library on a weekend in October and your curiosity was peaked about the folks wearing tan [...]

Read Full Post »

Sockeye Return @ Ballard Locks, 2010

I can still see them, as I drift off to sleep, silver schools of sockeye slicing through the salt side of the Locks, materializing out of the boiling blue green water pouring from Lake Washington and her rivers into Puget Sound. They move with unchecked exuberance, like a single organism, each individual united in motion [...]

Read Full Post »

Our Community of Friends

Green Drinks The last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of activity.  On Tuesday, June 8th, Friends of the Cedar River Watershed (FCRW) had the tremendous opportunity to co-host Green Drinks with technology innovators, Synapse Product Development.  It was a great evening that we got to share with over two hundred of our sustainability-minded [...]

Read Full Post »

Rain Garden to be Constructed at Hazen High in Renton

RAIN GARDEN INSTALLATION AT HAZEN HIGH SCHOOL, APRIL 29 King County, WA. Friends of the Cedar River Watershed (FCRW), a King County based non-profit organization, is launching a new project to address stormwater runoff through the construction of rain gardens at local schools and community institutions. The project involves high school students from five of [...]

Read Full Post »