Outdoor Project adds Icy Creek Spring in the Green River Gorge hike to their website
Today, with gratitude, I'd like to share some of the small things I've discovered in the Green River Gorge that affirm that life continues in the rhythm of seasons, cycles of life, and that everything has it's place and time.
However, I know from braving the harsher elements that there is another Green River Gorge waiting in the wild winter months...
Green River Gorge, The Power of Place
Presentation 4 to 5 pm
At the new Tukwila Library
14380 Tukwila International Boulevard
Tukwila WA 98168
Green River Gorge, The Power of Place
Presentation 4 to 5 pm
At the new Tukwila Library
14380 Tukwila International Boulevard
Tukwila WA 98168
Need a Little Fall Forest Therapy
to Keep Your Spirits Up as we enter the 9 months of winter?
Cedar Creek Park Trail Work Event
Normally in my blog I highlight the Green River Gorge's natural environment. However, I ran across this segment called “Returning the Favor” hosted by Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs. His segment is about remarkable people in communities all across America that go above and beyond to make the world a better place. In Black Diamond that person is Mama Ginger who started the Soup Ladies, a nonprofit that brings food (soup) to first responders working on disasters and prolonged events...
One of my earliest memories as a young girl was backpacking up to a mountain meadow below the snow covered summit of Mt. Adams in southwestern Washington...
Lisa Parsons Named as One of Three Finalists for Seattle’s Cox Conserves Heroes Program, Public Asked to Vote
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Lisa Parsons, a south King County community member has been nominated for the Cox Conserves Heroes Award for her work on advocacy, conservation, and stewardship of open space and parks in the middle Green-Duwamish Watershed.
Lisa Parsons Named as One of Three Finalists for Seattle’s Cox Conserves Heroes Program, Public Asked to Vote
VOTE
Lisa Parsons, a south King County community member has been nominated for the Cox Conserves Heroes Award for her work on advocacy, conservation, and stewardship of open space and parks in the middle Green-Duwamish Watershed.
Arts in Nature Festival
Interactive Display August 25th & 26th
Take a journey from the city scapes of the lower Green-Duwamish river upstream to the wild Green River Gorge. I will be exhibiting video and photographs from my documentary The Green River Gorge, The Power of Place as part of an interactive display at Cabin 3 at Camp Long. As part of that display I will be leading interactive activities around salmon in our watershed. Interactive activities are kid and adult friendly. Please join me at the festival for a creative day of art and community.
Green River Gorge. The Power of Place
Presentation Sunday July 9th, 6pm
Exhibition July 1st — 9th
Machine House brewery
5840 Airport Way S
Seattle, WA 98108
ACTION ALERT: BE AN OTTER SPOTTER
Report your sightings to help our Northwest conservation research
If you have ever spotted a wild river otter or if you encounter one on your next outdoor adventure, tell us about it! Woodland Park Zoo is studying river otters as sentinels for health along the Duwamish River. Your observations from across Washington will expand our knowledge about otter range and behavior. No expertise is needed—anyone can be an otter spotter!
Learn how easy it is to be an Otter Spotter >>
They both need water. Seems obvious at first look but...its not so simple. As the human demand for water goes up, the pressure on water resources like the Green River increases. How do we balance our in stream flows with our need, for say, beer?
What do Beer and Rivers Have in Common?
They both need water. Seems obvious at first look but...its not so simple. As the human demand for water goes up, the pressure on water resources like the Green River increases. How do we balance our in stream flows with our need, for say, beer?
The Power of Place Conservation and Travel Photography Exhibition
Photographer: Lisa Parsons
Come See the Exhibit at the
Seattle Fremont Art Walk
http://www.fremontfirstfriday.com/
June 2nd, 6:00—9pm.
Exhibition June to August 2017
Space Building, 600 N. 36th St. Floor 2
Seattle Washington
The Green River Cleanup on May 6th was a successful event with high flows through the Green River Gorge and lots of participants helping to cleanup the Green River Gorge! Check out our run through the legendary rapids Mercury, the Nozzle, and Lets Make a Deal at 3200 c.f.s.
Next weekend is the the 32nd Annual Green River Cleanup on May 6th, 2017. You can still join us as an experienced whitewater boater or you can go with a Whitewater Company or as part of the ground crews. Don't miss out on one of the most beautifuland fun river trips in Western Washington!
I was honored this week this weekend to receive the John Beal Environmental Stewardship award at the Duwamish Alive event on Earth Day this Saturday for my conservation work as a founder of Middle Green River Coalition and my conservation work in the watershed including the Green River Gorge Greenway.
Duwamish Alive! What is it? A music festival? A river creature? A live wire? A forest bog plant? Click to find out.