Come celebrate Earth Day 2022 with us!
We will be celebrating Earth Day at our beautiful Riverview Park site with partners MidSound Fisheries, Duwamish Alive!, and the City of Kent! At this event we will be removing invasive plants and applying mulch to protect and help establish our installed native plants while combating the return of invasive plants. We will also be holding a demonstration on "live staking" Red Osier Dogwood and giving you all the chance to live stake your own! We will also be discussing the importance of healthy rivers and how the work we do on the riverbank has a cascade effect to help salmon and southern resident orca!
The work we will be doing has multiply benefits to the Green River. Establishing native plants helps stabilize the river to prevent erosion and shade out the river which helps keep dissolved oxygen in the water! This helps local fish like the local chinook salmon which are a main food source for the southern resident orca!
Notes:
- Parking will be at Green River Trailhead Parking Lot, overflow parking at LA Fitness
- Please dress for outdoor work: long sleeves, jeans, and closed toed shoes.
- Please dress for the weather, rain jackets for rainy and light cloths for hot/sunny.
- Masks are optional and 6ft social distancing will be required.
*Coffee donated from Starbucks and snacks will be provided!*
If you have any questions, please feel free to email our operations manager Michael Taton: michael@greenrivercoalition.org
Thank you!
Acknowledgements:
Thank you to our funders: King County Flood Control District, WRIA 9, Rose Foundation, and Puget Soundkeeper!
