Green Footprints Action Works
Alder Creek WORK PARTY April 11, from 9 a.m. to noon.
One year ago, at Spring Clean 2008, the Alder Creek restoration project was launched. Celebrate a successful first year of urban forest restoration at Alder Creek and join us on Saturday at the Alder Creek Natural Area for Spring Clean 2009.
Spring Clean is "Day of the Dead" for Alder Creek. Instead of pulling ivy and chopping at blackberry, we will call "bring out your dead" to people who come to Alder Creek. We will sort through the brick and rubble and trash we have amassed at Alder Creek, and we will decide what we are going to keep and what we are going to deliver unto Seattle Public Utilities for the trash heap.
Bring gloves, water, snacks, your friends and family.
For more info about the Alder Creek work party or to join our mailing list, email . We host work parties on the second Saturday of each month.
Green Footprints Neighborhood Action Plan available now
The GreenPrint (front)
The GreenPrint (back)
The GreenPrint identifies pilot projects and opportunities in our neighborhood to reduce our ecological footprint and build connections among neighbors. Our projects and opportunities are predicated upon the following goals and objectives:
- Strengthen neighborhood identity and promote projects and activities that connect neighbors
- Improve water stewardship and reduce urban flooding by creating bioswale drainage systems and restoring creeks, seeps and wetlands
- Expand and improve public and private open space and urban wildlife habitat
- Encourage neighborhood walking by developing public walking routes and pedestrian amenities
For a hard copy of the GreenPrint, contact
Neighborhood Resource Maps
The neighborhood resource maps were created by Seattle Urban Nature from data collected by GFAW volunteers in the fall/winter of 2007-08. The maps include information specific to our neighborhood on tree canopy, invasive plants, impervious surfaces and water. These maps are:
- Project area map: includes water and significant trees
- Impervious surfaces map: backyard
- Impervious surfaces map (small size): backyard
- Impervious surface map: front yard
- Impervious surface map: planting strip
- Impervious surface map: summary (front, back, planting strip)
- Invasive plants map: backyard
- Invasive plants map: front yard
- Invasive plants map: planting strip
- Invasive plants map: summary
- Lawn: planting strip
- Lawn: summary
- Planting strip width
- Tree count map: summary
- Trees: conifers
- Trees: deciduous
- Tall trees
Green Footprints Action Works (GFAW) is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 corporation that promotes a vision of sustainable, safe and connected neighborhoods in Seattle. GFAW encourages all Seattle residents to consider our collective role as stewards of private and public land within the city of Seattle.
Work Parties
Join your neighbors at Alder Creek Natural Area or the Harrison Right of Way Wet Spot to remove invasives, clip ivy from trees and spread wood chips.
Work parties at the Alder Creek Natural Area, 26th & E Helen/26th & E Prospect, are held on the second Saturday of the month, from 9 a.m. to noon. The next work party will be April 11th. For more information, email .
Work parties at the East Harrison Wetland, 25th & E Harrison, are held on the first Saturday of the month, from 9 a.m. to noon. The next work party will be May 2nd. For more information, email .
We need volunteers to identify and lead potential projects. If you want to volunteer, contact or .
Join us in our effort to build a safe, sustainable and connected neighborhood. If you can't spare the time, then consider a cash donation to our effort.
And keep talking to us: join the Green Footprints Yahoo group.