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The Watershed Report: Bringing it Home and to the Capitol

Posted in education, landowner, Maple Valley, outreach, pollution, rain garden, Renton, restoration, salmon, Seattle, sockeye, students, sustainability, Uncategorized, water on January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

“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 [...]

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Sockeye Return @ Ballard Locks, 2010

Posted in Cedar River Salmon Journey, Chinook, education, Maple Valley, naturalists, outreach, pollution, rain garden, Renton, restoration, salmon, sockeye, students, sustainability, Uncategorized, water on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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Rain Garden to be Constructed at Hazen High in Renton

Posted in education, pollution, rain garden, Renton, restoration, salmon, students, sustainability, Uncategorized, water on April 28, 2010 |

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 [...]

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