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Project Goals

Enhancing Biodiversity

Promoting healthy conditions for plants, insects, birds and animals to thrive

Restoration and Conservation

Protecting the local ecosystem and habitats

Stewarding Salmon

Monitoring hatchery reports, volunteer as Stream Team Salmon Steward

Wildlife Coexistence

Honoring the role of the urban wildlife boundary this is a major influence on this project.

Passive Recreation

Human activities that are highly compatible with protecting the ecosystem

Master Gardener Project

Engaging the MG Community and fulfilling Internship Project requirements

Habitat Project Activities

Baby grand firs from Native Plant Salvage

Sourcing Native Plants

Native Plant Salvage, Thurston County Conservation District Grant, Master Gardener Foundation, Wild Thyme Tree Farm Bare Root Cedars (from a friend)

Invasive Removal

Himalayan blackberry, tansy ragwort, scotchbroom Rubus armeniacus Himalayan Blackberry Weed Class C (Native to Asia) NWCB listing Senecio jacobaea Tansy ragwort Primary Invasive, there’s just tons of it

Gourd bird house

Nesting Boxes

Birdhouses, bat boxes, insect habitat stacks

Plant Nursery

Plant Propogation

Seeds, bulbs, software and hardwood cuttings

Busy Beaver

  • Beaver on a log

Plant Inventories

Flowering snowberry

Woody Plants

Trees and Shrubs

Trees and Shrubs are both
woody perennials and can be evergreen or deciduous.
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Trees typically having a single stem or trunk, Shrubs typically have multiple stems.
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Trees grow to considerable heights, shrubs are small to medium size.

Vascular Plants

Herbaceous

Herbaceous plants are a broad category of vascular plants, and include broad-leafed plants, grasses, sedges and rushes.

Herbaceous plants most often are low-growing, tend to have soft stems, and above ground are seasonal in duration.

Creekside plants

Aquatic Plants

Hydrophytes or macrophytes

Aquatic plants are adapted to grown in or near water or saturated soil, with special adaptations for growth and reproduction.

Aquatic plants living in water are either emergent, submergent, or floating.

Benefits of Riparian Zones

Increase Water Quality

Absorbs and filter runoff

Riparian zones help filter storm water runoff by slowing down and trapping pollutants. Pollutants can then infiltrate the soil and be broken down by microbes which can be absorbed by the buffer's plants which increases water quality.

Riparian Corridor Graphic

Healthy Riparian Zones

Prevent Flooding

Stores Excess Waters

Riparian zones create spaces to store excess water from heavy rains and help prevent flooding.

Plant Kingdom

Native Plants

PHOTO GALLERY

Trees, Shrubs, Herbaceous

Animal Kingdom

Wildlife

PHOTO GALLERY

Birds, Fish & Mammals

Fungi Kingdom

Fungi

PHOTO GALLERY

Mushrooms, Moss & Lichens

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