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Brand New Work Plan

At our February meeting, Partners approved the new work plan for 2025 and 2026! You can read it here. It’s both ambitious and exciting. We have included tasks related to four discrete areas of interest: If we successfully implement our … Continue reading

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2025 Has Arrived!

Happy New Year!   I am really looking forward to 2025. We have set some ambitious targets and are optimistic about achieving them.   This year we will be rolling out our updated mapping tool to support regional retrofit decision making. This … Continue reading

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Lost Urban Creeks Project: Springbrook Creek Watershed Tour

Join Our Green/Duwamish Partner organization, Puget Soundkeeper and Unleash the Brilliance for a youth-led, driving tour of the Springbrook Creek Watershed in Renton, WA. Saturday, September 7th at 10 am. The tour will visit three locations (and 6 sites) to learn … Continue reading

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Successful Partnerships lead to Accelerated Outcomes

At our most recent gathering, the OGD Partners, Mid Sound Fisheries, and Puget Soundkeeper shared a wonderful story of local success – hopefully one of many more to come, and we wanted to share it more broadly with folks here. … Continue reading

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Recap from the Jan. 21 Watershed Advisory Group Meeting

The third Watershed Advisory Group Meeting was held on Jan. 21, 2016, at King Street Center in downtown Seattle. The meeting was very productive! We recapped Phase I activities and presented, in detail, the results of November 2015 WAG focus … Continue reading

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Attend the Green-Duwamish Watershed Symposium, Feb. 29

For people seeking greater synergy around improving the health of our environment and communities, this Leap Day will be extra special. Our colleagues at Green Seattle Partnership posted terrific information about the region’s first Green-Duwamish Watershed Symposium, which will take … Continue reading

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On to the next phase of the project

After soliciting input from stakeholders with strong ties to the watershed, the Our Green/Duwamish team has wrapped up the Phase 1 Listening Tour. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! As promised, the team prepared a series of … Continue reading

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Duwamish Alive! activities at Cecil B. Moses Park

The Nature Intrudes blog covers the incredible restoration work at Cecil B. Moses Park carried out by dedicated volunteers as part of the Duwamish Alive! celebration. King County Parks held a work party in Cecil Moses Park, located at the … Continue reading

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Story of the Green Duwamish Watershed: Mark Powell’s #SwimDuwamish

Mark Powell, alone and sometimes with guests, has been swimming the entire 85-mile length of the Green-Duwamish River a few miles at a time since last month. The swims are part of a campaign to tell the full story of … Continue reading

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Help shape the future

We would love to hear your thoughts on the Green-Duwamish Watershed, as one of the primary goals of this project is to engage the community in crafting this vision and strategy. Please follow this link to take the brief survey … Continue reading

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