SHADOW Office Closure

SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve’s Office will be closed for the last two weeks of December and first week of January. (12/16/18 – 1/7/19) The Nature Preserve’s grounds remain open to the public from 9 am – 6 pm, Monday – Saturday during this...

Natural Heritage Registry

At the end of October, the Natural Heritage Advisory Council voted to include the Shadow Lake bog in the Washington Register of Natural Areas, in recognition of the high conservation value of the bog and Shadow Lake Nature Preserve’s efforts to protect the site!...

New Rules of Access

At SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve we are mission driven to provide critical habitat for wildlife and access to green spaces. We strive to be continuously mindful of how best to achieve these two, occasionally contradictory, ends.   In the coming weeks you may notice...

Bog Restoration Abroad

Could a drainage ditch once again be a bog?   Bogs and mires are viewed as places of mystery and peace in Estonian heritage. Estonia is home to some of the world’s oldest bogs and peatlands and they make up a fifth of this country’s mainland. About a...