Everyone should have a rain garden! Here’s a short presentation by Kristin Andres, associate director for education at the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, about the value rain gardens and how...
40+ Years of Wetland Restoration in the San Francisco Bay, Coastal Conservancy
The evolution of tidal wetland restoration approaches in SF Bay, illustrated by specific projects, such as Sonoma Baylands, the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, and Lower Walnut Creek and...
A River Reborn: Restoring Salmon Habitat Along the Duwamish River, NOAA Fisheries
Just south of Seattle, the Boeing Company has created the largest habitat restoration project on the Lower Duwamish River. Boeing worked with NOAA and their partners under a Natural Resource Damage...
Boise River Flood District honored for brown trout conservation project
With the help of volunteers that marked 200 nests across 16 miles of the Boise River to the Boise River Flood district worked to avoid brown trout spawning beds during winter maintenance.
Snohomish County Surface Water Management obtained a grant to conduct knotweed assessments in the Little Bear Creek watershed. The goal of this project is to detect and assess current populations of...
The Puget Sound Restoration Fund is working to restore 100 acres of living native oyster habitat. This includes spreading oyster shells to provide a structure for larvae to use and producing and...
More than eight acres of land at Chism Beach Park overrun with ivy and other invasive plants are being restored, with more than 100 volunteers and the city’s garbage hauler pitching in for the cause
Himalayan blackberry had taken over a 20,000-square-foot riverbank, turning it into a monoculture where no other plants could grow. EarthCorps removed all the blackberry, protected the slope from...
Get a closer look at the large-scale restoration efforts and science behind the largest dam removal in U.S. history, which began in 2011 on the Elwha River in Washington State and how NOAA Fisheries...
This database contains multiple coastal resilience projects around the nation, including Living Shorelines for shoreline stabilization, habitat restoration, and floodplain management. Each project...
Seattleites Make Rain Gardens to Curb Stormwater Pollution, PBS NewsHour
In an effort to curb pollution from stormwater runoff, Seattle residents have begun a campaign to build 12,000 rain gardens around the Puget Sound. Katie Campbell of KCTS 9 reports.
Shoreline homeowners in Washington want to protect their properties while also protecting the fish, wildlife, and shoreline habitats of Puget Sound. Local residents and coastal geologist share about...
Squaw Creek Culvert Fish Passage Improvement Project
This project replaced a perched corrugated metal pipe culvert with a bottomless arch culvert. It restored fish access to about four miles of spawning and rearing habitat.
Since 2009, Trees for Neighborhoods has helped Seattle residents plant over 8,300 trees in their yards and along the streets. The program provides help selecting the right tree for the location, free...
The Vedanta Society of Portland worked with the Conservation District on a number of special projects to bring its members and visitors closer to native plants and the natural world. These projects...
EarthCorps – Friends of the Hylebos is working to make the Hylebos Watershed the healthiest urban watershed in Puget Sound. The Friends of the Hylebos has been working with the community to protect...
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