by Michael Yadrick | Mar 20, 2019 | Program Updates
What is maintenance? We refer to the latter phases of GSP restoration, phases 3 and 4, as establishment and maintenance respectively. This work happens after initial invasive species removal has occurred, and native plants have been installed. In these phases we...
by Michael Yadrick | Oct 29, 2018 | Science and Research
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 | Restoration Resources
History of Seattle’s Madrones 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,...
by Michael Yadrick | Dec 7, 2017 | Science and Research
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...
by Michael Yadrick | Sep 21, 2017 | Program Updates
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....
