by Michael Yadrick | Oct 29, 2018 | News
See a notable Pacific madrone while cruising through your neighborhood? Know about a cool tree in your favorite park? Maybe you can be our “eyes-in-the-field” as you sit in the backyard shade of your Arbutus menziesii. Now anyone can “tag”...
by Michael Yadrick | Jul 19, 2018 | blog, News
In the late 1800s, explorers mistakenly named Seattle’s Magnolia area after seeing an abundance of broadleaf evergreen trees common to the Salish Sea and Puget Trough – Arbutus menziesii or Pacific madrone. Nurtured by nature, we do have a couple pure stands of...
by Michael Yadrick | Dec 7, 2017 | News
SAVE THE DATE for the annual GSP Shareholders Meeting on January 27th at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center! This year’s theme will focus on “Telling Our Story.” Moving into the 14th year of our 20-year plan to restore our forested parklands, we...
by Michael Yadrick | Sep 21, 2017 | Behind the Scenes
There is life up in the tree canopy. Amanda Bidwell climbs bigleaf maples. Finishing her Master’s work at University of Washington last June, she just shared some dazzling and troubling results about hot-spots of heavy metal pollution in our epiphytic mosses....
by Michael Yadrick | Sep 7, 2017 | Behind the Scenes
Wildlife is one thing some people hope to spot in their favorite park, or even in their backyard. Green Seattle Partnership caught up with Professor Mark Jordan to hear some insights about a multi-year carnivore study his Seattle University Wildlife Lab is carrying...
