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Cedar Area Neighbors for Decreased Odors (CAN-DO aka "Sink the Stink")
Meeting recap - February 1, 2017 Success can look like the odor going away completely or at least being significantly mitigated. Without our efforts, it's highly likely to continue to get MUCH worse as the region expands. We have the ability and responsibility to stop Cedar Grove from impairing the value of our properties and our ability to enjoy them with friends and families. Below are the meeting's highlights and next steps, as well as a call to action for you to help in various areas. Thanks so much in advance for engaging and please spread the Sink the Cedar Stink word to your neighbors!! Let's have fun and build community as we create change together! Meeting Highlights
Below are proposed next steps, people needed, and timing. Please let me know in which area you'd like to participate:
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September 2016 Lake Desire News Call of the WildThere have been a number of black bear sightings, and evidence of their garbage flinging habits, in the neighborhood. Who will spot him next?? Things are not always as they appear... This sweet creature, posing as a domestic kitten in distress, is actually a bobcat. This tiny tabby was found on August 17 out wandering alone in the neighborhood. Please be advised that where there is one, there are often more to be found. These babes cannot survive without their mother. If you think you find a wild cat, please contact South County Cats immediately. This little girl has been placed with another orphaned bobcat at the Paws Wild Animal Rescue Center for rehabilitation and eventual return to their proper habitat. (Thank you, Sylvia Strahan for the photos and incredible story!) Click here for more photos. That's a Wrap!If you missed out on the last of the summer movie series, here is a little teaser from the viewing of Ferris Bueller from the final showing on August 26. A BIG thank you to the Smith Family for putting together this great series and to everyone who came out for the viewings!ilmember Reagan Dunn and Sheriff John Urquhart for this great shot in recognition of their contribution to the festivities. Click here to watch the Fairwood 50th Anniversary video. Welcome New Neighbors! We would like to welcome Jesse Wise to the Lake Desire Community. Jesse was born and raised locally within a few miles of Lake Desire and has been looking for a lakefront home for several years. He is employed by the Kent Fire Department and enjoys hiking, biking and long distance running. His favorite pet is a collie named Bailey, who we understand provided great entertainment for our greeter, Susan Hill, while she was there to meet our new neighbors. Jesse lives with his roommate, Mark Myers, who moved here from Yakima two weeks ago. He is a manager for Starbucks in Seattle. Mark has two rescue dogs, Miles and Fitz. He enjoys doing community theater. Welcome, Jesse and Mark! Do you have a new neighbor? A new baby in the neighborhood? Please contact our LakeDesire Greeter, Susan Hill. UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesdays 6-?PM The Ladies Hiking Club meets at the trailhead at the end of W. Lake Desire Dr **the meeting time has changed to 6PM** October 77PM SAVE THE DATE! Bingo Night at the Lake Desire Community Club House! October 159AM CommunityRoadside Clean up - Join us at the Clubhouse starting at 9AM Questions about your community? Do you have any items for the newsletter? Please submit your ideas, photos and comments to Jessie at Jessie.kotarski@gmail.com. Lake Desire Clubhouse Rentals– Contact Heather Smith at Heather@smith.net. Pictures and a calendar for availability can be found at http://www.lakedesire.org/rentals.html |
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WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE
600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091
http://wdfw.wa.gov CROSSING PATHS WITH WASHINGTON'S WILDLIFE
June 2016
Puget Sound's Great blue herons provide summertime watching
By Jamie Bails, WDFW habitat biologist
Even amidst fully-leafed-out trees at this time of year, it's hard to miss a great blue heron (Ardea herodias).
Four feet tall with a six-foot span of blue-feathered wings, this big bird is mostly beak, neck and legs. It's commonly found in both rural and urban areas of every Washington county and can be even more noticeable in the spring and summer because it nests communally, in large groups called heron rookeries or colonies.
Although widely recognized, much is still unknown about foraging, seasonal dispersal, habitat associations and winter distribution of the great blue heron. Many eastern Washington herons migrate south in the fall, but others, especially on the west side of the state, are year-round residents.
The non-migratory Puget Sound population is classified as a sub-species (Ardea herodias fannini) found only in the Salish Sea, a broad area that stretches from Prince William Sound to south Puget Sound. What we DO know is that these herons are an important indicator of the health of Puget Sound.
According to "Great Blue Herons of Puget Sound," a technical report by Ann Eissinger published by the Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership, 49 percent of this population is concentrated in four mega-colonies of 200-600 heron pairs. The remaining 51 percent is in small to medium colonies of less than 200 pairs, scattered along the Puget Sound shore from Bellingham to Olympia.
Many of the largest nest sites are in northern Puget Sound near eelgrass beds on marine shorelines, like the March Point colony in Padilla Bay, where several dozen herons are frequently seen wading to feed on herring, shrimp, crabs, sculpins, starry flounder and other aquatic life.
In south Puget Sound, where eelgrass is not abundant, smaller colonies are distributed by tree availability, access to marsh foraging areas and prey abundance. These smaller southern colonies usually breed earlier than those of the north and Strait of Georgia.
Based on Eissinger's observations over 25-plus years, some mega-colonies appear to fragment, with herons relocating to new and existing nesting sites, usually closer to productive marine feeding areas.
For example, a Point Roberts colony of nearly 400 nesting pairs began to fragment in 2002-2003, with about 350 pairs moving about two miles north to the Tsawassen bluff, directly above their primary feeding grounds at Roberts Bank. Another case was the Birch Bay colony of about 275 nesting pairs, which fragmented and relocated between 2006 and 2008 to a new site at Drayton Harbor with about 100 nests, and to the Lummi Bay colony, which grew by 50-100 nests.
Most great blue herons begin the reproductive cycle in early February, gathering at these traditional communal nest sites. These sites are usually in tall deciduous trees such as alder, cottonwood and big leaf maple, but also cedar, hemlock and pine, and near foraging habitat like an estuary or other waterway.
By March the male of each pair is providing sticks for the female to build a nest or renovate an old nest. She lays three to five eggs, and both take turns incubating them for almost a month. By the end of May the eggs begin to hatch, and chicks grow rapidly, fed by both parents. The chicks first leave the nest at 7-8 weeks but usually return to be fed for another few weeks.
By the end of September, the juveniles have fully fledged and disperse with adult females to upland rivers, lakes and wetlands to find prey. There they stay through the winter, roosting nightly at forest edges on lateral branching trees. Voles and other small mammals, reptiles and amphibians provide easy and abundant food around fields and marshes, and winter-returning salmon are taken from rivers and beaver ponds. Adult male herons maintain their shoreline territory over winter.
Puget Sound's mega-colonies of great blue herons act as an anchor for an overall resilient population, but by being concentrated they are susceptible to disturbance, both natural and man-made.
For example, in the 1990's a large ice storm destroyed the colony at Squaxin Island near Olympia, killing all the nest trees. If a major oil spill were to occur in Padilla Bay, the largest heron breeding center in the Salish Sea -- March Point and Samish Island colonies -- could be seriously impacted.
Smaller colonies might be at greater risk of competition with other species or predation. At Edmonds Marsh, herons have tried to establish nests over the last dozen years, but fledglings have not yet been documented. Many heron-watchers assume nearby mature bald eagles are thwarting the herons' efforts.
On the other hand, a bald eagle nesting pair near several heron nests at Point Roberts is more likely protecting both species' territory from raids by crows, ravens or immature eagles.
Over the years, heron watchers throughout Puget Sound have seen both large and small colonies shrink, grow, and completely disappear. In 2010, the Kiwanis Ravine colony included some 80 successful nests, but by 2014 there were none.
The now abandoned Black River colony in Renton once supported 130 nests. Today the Lake Sammamish State Park and Kenmore Park & Ride colonies are the largest in the Pierce/King/Snohomish county area.
Eissinger has noted that many Puget Sound herons are well-adapted to human disturbance, including dogs, motor vehicle traffic, and industry noise. Nevertheless, heron colony watchers need to keep a respectful distance from nests. Keep pets on leash, minimize noise, and bring binoculars, scopes and telephoto camera lenses to enjoy these big birds.
Visit the WDFW Crossing Paths Archive: http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/crossing_paths/
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NewsMetropolitan King County
Council News
Fairwood 50th looking for treasured photos and memories
March 15, 2016
Summary: In order to properly celebrate the entire community that makes Fairwood what it is today, we are asking you to share your memories and photos.
Story:
Love Fairwood? Remember what it was like in 1966, or the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and beyond? Starting Thursday, March 17, Metropolitan King County Vice Chair Reagan Dunn will be partnering with King County Parks to bring you throwback pictures and memories from the early days of Fairwood.
This celebration is in recognition of Fairwood's 50th Anniversary, which culminates on August 27th with a day of family fun for the whole community at Petrovitsky Park.
But we need your help!
In order to properly celebrate the entire community that makes Fairwood what it is today, we are asking you to share your memories and photos. To submit photos for the chance to be featured on the Fairwood 50th Anniversary Throwback, either post your photo or memory on Facebook or Twitter with the tag #Fairwood50 or email them to Reagan.Dunn@kingcounty.gov.
Please only send materials that are appropriate and allowable for public display. Submissions will be taken continuously until August and may be shared through social media.
For more information about the Fairwood 50th and the day-long celebration at Petrovitsky Park check out www.Fairwood50.com.
Recent News included in the March 2016 newsletter:
Dear McGarvey Park Open Space Community:
We wanted to provide you an update on forest stewardship plans at the park.
On March 16, 2015 King County hosted a community meeting at Northwood Middle School to present information and gather community input about forest stewardship at McGarvey Park. Consistent with the McGarvey Park Forest Stewardship Plan King County was proposing a thinning to improve forest health. During the public review process for the proposed 2015 thinning King County received input from the community that there was poor survival of conifer seedlings planted after the previous harvest in 2012.
King County submitted a Forest Practices Permit to Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for the proposed thinning and withdrew it after deciding to postpone the thinning. When DNR reviewed the permit they stated that they “ found an abundance of commercial tree seedlings (Douglas-fir, Western Red Cedar and Grand Fir) growing under the brush and many that are already winning the fight for light. Trees are tough and persistent and will overtop the brush and continue to grow. King County’s reforestation effort exceeds forest practices rules.”
King County subsequently thoroughly surveyed the harvest site, identified 15 acres which contain areas of poor survival and decided to replant these areas to help ensure a successful transition to a more natural coniferous forest. This area is indicated on the attached Replant Map and is flagged on the ground with red surveyor flagging.
King County hired Applied Ecology, LLC to replant the 15 acres which are lacking healthy conifer seedlings. Applied Ecology plans to complete the planting project by the end of March. This project will not result in any restrictions to public use of the trail network. The only impact may be noise from brush cutting in areas of dense non-native blackberries. This summer and early fall we will continue to maintain and take care of these seedlings to ensure growth and survival rates.
Thank you for your interest in and commitment to McGarvey Park Open Space. We will continue to keep you informed of future plans and look forward to working together on forest stewardship at the park.
If you have any additional questions about forest stewardship at McGarvey Park Open space, please contact Bill Loeber, at bill.loeber@kingcounty.gov or 206-477-4755. If you have any questions about general management issues, please contact Eric Coyner at (206)861-5013. More information is available online at http://www.kingcounty.gov/services/parks-recreation/parks/parks-and-natural-lands/natural-lands/forest-stewardship/mcgarvey.aspx.
WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE
600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091
http://wdfw.wa.gov CROSSING PATHS WITH WASHINGTON'S WILDLIFE
June 2016
Puget Sound's Great blue herons provide summertime watching
By Jamie Bails, WDFW habitat biologist
Even amidst fully-leafed-out trees at this time of year, it's hard to miss a great blue heron (Ardea herodias).
Four feet tall with a six-foot span of blue-feathered wings, this big bird is mostly beak, neck and legs. It's commonly found in both rural and urban areas of every Washington county and can be even more noticeable in the spring and summer because it nests communally, in large groups called heron rookeries or colonies.
Although widely recognized, much is still unknown about foraging, seasonal dispersal, habitat associations and winter distribution of the great blue heron. Many eastern Washington herons migrate south in the fall, but others, especially on the west side of the state, are year-round residents.
The non-migratory Puget Sound population is classified as a sub-species (Ardea herodias fannini) found only in the Salish Sea, a broad area that stretches from Prince William Sound to south Puget Sound. What we DO know is that these herons are an important indicator of the health of Puget Sound.
According to "Great Blue Herons of Puget Sound," a technical report by Ann Eissinger published by the Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership, 49 percent of this population is concentrated in four mega-colonies of 200-600 heron pairs. The remaining 51 percent is in small to medium colonies of less than 200 pairs, scattered along the Puget Sound shore from Bellingham to Olympia.
Many of the largest nest sites are in northern Puget Sound near eelgrass beds on marine shorelines, like the March Point colony in Padilla Bay, where several dozen herons are frequently seen wading to feed on herring, shrimp, crabs, sculpins, starry flounder and other aquatic life.
In south Puget Sound, where eelgrass is not abundant, smaller colonies are distributed by tree availability, access to marsh foraging areas and prey abundance. These smaller southern colonies usually breed earlier than those of the north and Strait of Georgia.
Based on Eissinger's observations over 25-plus years, some mega-colonies appear to fragment, with herons relocating to new and existing nesting sites, usually closer to productive marine feeding areas.
For example, a Point Roberts colony of nearly 400 nesting pairs began to fragment in 2002-2003, with about 350 pairs moving about two miles north to the Tsawassen bluff, directly above their primary feeding grounds at Roberts Bank. Another case was the Birch Bay colony of about 275 nesting pairs, which fragmented and relocated between 2006 and 2008 to a new site at Drayton Harbor with about 100 nests, and to the Lummi Bay colony, which grew by 50-100 nests.
Most great blue herons begin the reproductive cycle in early February, gathering at these traditional communal nest sites. These sites are usually in tall deciduous trees such as alder, cottonwood and big leaf maple, but also cedar, hemlock and pine, and near foraging habitat like an estuary or other waterway.
By March the male of each pair is providing sticks for the female to build a nest or renovate an old nest. She lays three to five eggs, and both take turns incubating them for almost a month. By the end of May the eggs begin to hatch, and chicks grow rapidly, fed by both parents. The chicks first leave the nest at 7-8 weeks but usually return to be fed for another few weeks.
By the end of September, the juveniles have fully fledged and disperse with adult females to upland rivers, lakes and wetlands to find prey. There they stay through the winter, roosting nightly at forest edges on lateral branching trees. Voles and other small mammals, reptiles and amphibians provide easy and abundant food around fields and marshes, and winter-returning salmon are taken from rivers and beaver ponds. Adult male herons maintain their shoreline territory over winter.
Puget Sound's mega-colonies of great blue herons act as an anchor for an overall resilient population, but by being concentrated they are susceptible to disturbance, both natural and man-made.
For example, in the 1990's a large ice storm destroyed the colony at Squaxin Island near Olympia, killing all the nest trees. If a major oil spill were to occur in Padilla Bay, the largest heron breeding center in the Salish Sea -- March Point and Samish Island colonies -- could be seriously impacted.
Smaller colonies might be at greater risk of competition with other species or predation. At Edmonds Marsh, herons have tried to establish nests over the last dozen years, but fledglings have not yet been documented. Many heron-watchers assume nearby mature bald eagles are thwarting the herons' efforts.
On the other hand, a bald eagle nesting pair near several heron nests at Point Roberts is more likely protecting both species' territory from raids by crows, ravens or immature eagles.
Over the years, heron watchers throughout Puget Sound have seen both large and small colonies shrink, grow, and completely disappear. In 2010, the Kiwanis Ravine colony included some 80 successful nests, but by 2014 there were none.
The now abandoned Black River colony in Renton once supported 130 nests. Today the Lake Sammamish State Park and Kenmore Park & Ride colonies are the largest in the Pierce/King/Snohomish county area.
Eissinger has noted that many Puget Sound herons are well-adapted to human disturbance, including dogs, motor vehicle traffic, and industry noise. Nevertheless, heron colony watchers need to keep a respectful distance from nests. Keep pets on leash, minimize noise, and bring binoculars, scopes and telephoto camera lenses to enjoy these big birds.
Visit the WDFW Crossing Paths Archive: http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/crossing_paths/
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NewsMetropolitan King County
Council News
Fairwood 50th looking for treasured photos and memories
March 15, 2016
Summary: In order to properly celebrate the entire community that makes Fairwood what it is today, we are asking you to share your memories and photos.
Story:
Love Fairwood? Remember what it was like in 1966, or the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and beyond? Starting Thursday, March 17, Metropolitan King County Vice Chair Reagan Dunn will be partnering with King County Parks to bring you throwback pictures and memories from the early days of Fairwood.
This celebration is in recognition of Fairwood's 50th Anniversary, which culminates on August 27th with a day of family fun for the whole community at Petrovitsky Park.
But we need your help!
In order to properly celebrate the entire community that makes Fairwood what it is today, we are asking you to share your memories and photos. To submit photos for the chance to be featured on the Fairwood 50th Anniversary Throwback, either post your photo or memory on Facebook or Twitter with the tag #Fairwood50 or email them to Reagan.Dunn@kingcounty.gov.
Please only send materials that are appropriate and allowable for public display. Submissions will be taken continuously until August and may be shared through social media.
For more information about the Fairwood 50th and the day-long celebration at Petrovitsky Park check out www.Fairwood50.com.
Recent News included in the March 2016 newsletter:
Dear McGarvey Park Open Space Community:
We wanted to provide you an update on forest stewardship plans at the park.
On March 16, 2015 King County hosted a community meeting at Northwood Middle School to present information and gather community input about forest stewardship at McGarvey Park. Consistent with the McGarvey Park Forest Stewardship Plan King County was proposing a thinning to improve forest health. During the public review process for the proposed 2015 thinning King County received input from the community that there was poor survival of conifer seedlings planted after the previous harvest in 2012.
King County submitted a Forest Practices Permit to Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for the proposed thinning and withdrew it after deciding to postpone the thinning. When DNR reviewed the permit they stated that they “ found an abundance of commercial tree seedlings (Douglas-fir, Western Red Cedar and Grand Fir) growing under the brush and many that are already winning the fight for light. Trees are tough and persistent and will overtop the brush and continue to grow. King County’s reforestation effort exceeds forest practices rules.”
King County subsequently thoroughly surveyed the harvest site, identified 15 acres which contain areas of poor survival and decided to replant these areas to help ensure a successful transition to a more natural coniferous forest. This area is indicated on the attached Replant Map and is flagged on the ground with red surveyor flagging.
King County hired Applied Ecology, LLC to replant the 15 acres which are lacking healthy conifer seedlings. Applied Ecology plans to complete the planting project by the end of March. This project will not result in any restrictions to public use of the trail network. The only impact may be noise from brush cutting in areas of dense non-native blackberries. This summer and early fall we will continue to maintain and take care of these seedlings to ensure growth and survival rates.
Thank you for your interest in and commitment to McGarvey Park Open Space. We will continue to keep you informed of future plans and look forward to working together on forest stewardship at the park.
If you have any additional questions about forest stewardship at McGarvey Park Open space, please contact Bill Loeber, at bill.loeber@kingcounty.gov or 206-477-4755. If you have any questions about general management issues, please contact Eric Coyner at (206)861-5013. More information is available online at http://www.kingcounty.gov/services/parks-recreation/parks/parks-and-natural-lands/natural-lands/forest-stewardship/mcgarvey.aspx.
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