by Joy Stewart | May 24, 2018 | Goings on at SHADOW, Local environmentalism, Native animals, Native plants, News, Watersheds, Wetlands
As part of the SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve community, you get to tell us what makes the Nature Preserve important to you. This brief survey asks you to rank the importance of the various land uses occurring here at the Nature Preserve. It also provides a quick...
by Joy Stewart | Mar 21, 2018 | Goings on at SHADOW, Local environmentalism, Watersheds, Wetlands
The Useless Tree Lao Tzu was traveling with his disciples and they came to a forest where hundreds of woodcutters were cutting the trees. The whole forest had been cut except for one big tree with thousands of branches. It was so big that 10,000 persons could sit in...
by Joy Stewart | Mar 7, 2018 | Goings on at SHADOW, Local environmentalism, Watersheds
Did you know that SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve also protects the headwaters of Jenkin’s Creek? This creek, that starts in the Upland Forests of the Nature Preserve, is a tributary of salmon-bearing Soos Creek which flows into the Green River. Although we are...
by Joy Stewart | Jun 22, 2017 | Local environmentalism, Watersheds
Washington State is home to two coastal mountain ranges. When alpine peaks bud up against the open ocean, the result is lots of precipitation! King County is among a limited number of lucky communities in the United States who draw drinking water from an unfiltered,...
by Joy Stewart | May 5, 2017 | Local environmentalism, Watersheds, Wetlands
Tectonic: Large-scale processes affecting the structure of the earth’s crust. Cordilleran ice sheet: Large historic glacier that stretched across the West Coast of North America to the continental divide, at times expanding as far south as Aberdeen, WA. Puget...
by Joy Stewart | Feb 9, 2017 | Local environmentalism, Watersheds
A raindrop falls in Howard Hanson dam. A raindrop falls in downtown Kent. Raindrops splatter across a Nature Preserve in Renton. How is it that all these raindrops - scattered across a diverse landscape - all make their way out into the Puget Sound? That is the magic...
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