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Fall Planting and Chili Feed

11/3/2016

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Our annual Fall planting and stewardship event will take place on Saturday, November 19th from 10:00am - 2:00pm, at the upper restoration sites. First time and returning volunteers are absolutely welcome to join in and help make North Creek Forest healthier!

All of the native plants we will be planting are generously donated by Bartlett Tree Experts, who also donated plants at the Spring event earlier this year! The new trees and shrubs will help stabilize slopes and also fill in empty areas within the restoration sites.

For part of stewardship, there are patches of Himalayan blackberry and English ivy, both invasive weeds, that we will remove to provide more growing room for existing native plants. Identification lessons will be taught by our experienced forest volunteers. We will also spread mulch, provided by Northwest Arboriculture, to reduce erosion and increase soil nutrients as the other part of stewardship.

All of your hard work will be rewarded at the event's end with a homemade chili and cornbread feed prepared by the Friends of North Creek Forest's board members! It will be a delicious end to a rewarding day. And after you fill up on chili - head down to the Forest Research Expo at the Lower Restoration Sites.

If you are interested in volunteering, please complete this form to sign up as it links directly to our volunteer database, and will automatically include you on this event's emails.

Thanks again, and we hope to see you on November 19th!
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Two More Forest Parcels Protected!

8/8/2016

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On July 26, Bothell’s City Council approved a Purchase & Sale Agreement for 2 of the 3 remaining North Creek Forest parcels in private ownership!

This purchase will add more than 13 acres to land that has already been permanently preserved and brings us ever closer to the dream of protecting all 64 acres of North Creek Forest. 

On behalf of all of us at Friends of North Creek Forest, I would like to thank everyone who has been a part of this truly grassroots effort – your endorsements, volunteer hours and contributions have all helped protect a piece of the wild in Bothell!

The deal should close in mid-October.
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More Gratitude

6/22/2016

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We once again extend our thanks, this time to the Peach Foundation, for a grant in support of our Education Program. The Peach Foundation enabled our Education Program to get started a few years ago, and we are so excited to take it to new heights in the coming year with their support!    
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Thank You Tulalip Tribes

6/22/2016

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We are incredibly honored to receive a grant from the Tulalip Tribes Charitable Fund. This grant will help support our ever-growing Stewardship Program, which helps improve the health of North Creek Forest and brings depth to the greater community’s understanding of nature and how to protect our natural resources. Support from the Tulalip Tribes will allow us to develop and document systems and increase capacity so our volunteers continue to have a positive experience.

This grant will also support an educational partnership with the Northwest Indian College. We will work with NWIC faculty to support classroom learning about forest ecology and local traditional ecological knowledge with field experiences and project based learning.

We thank The Tulalip Tribes for their generosity support of our work and the work of many other organizations in our community.

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Boeing helps restore North Creek Forest!

6/17/2016

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PictureVolunteers listen about the history of North Creek Forest. Photo by Lien Pham.
Boeing Bothell employees came out on Friday, June 3rd to help restore North Creek Forest as part of World Environment Day. 37 volunteers helped remove invasive weeds like Himalayan blackberry, reed canarygrass, and morning glory. Removing the invasive weeds makes room for our existing native plants to thrive, which will help the restoration site continue to grow into a more mature forest. Furthermore, future volunteers will now be able to spread mulch over the cleared areas, which helps suppress invasive weed growth.

After 4 hours of work, Boeing volunteers cleared at least 2,000 square feet of invasive weeds from the lower restoration sites, contributing 86 hours in the process. Thanks again to all of the Boeing Bothell employees who helped restore North Creek Forest!

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UW-REN Site Celebration

5/16/2016

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Help us celebrate the hard work of this year's UW-REN team, as well as hundreds of volunteers who helped pull invasive weeds, spread mulch, and plant natives! Join us on June 3 at 5pm for a BBQ and site tours to learn more about the project.

The party will be behind our office at:
20218 108th Ave. NE
Bothell, WA 98011

Look for a gravel path to the right of the house and follow it down and around to the back! We'll have a small sign showing you the way.

Please RSVP using the form below.
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Thank you Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment

5/11/2016

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We would like to thank the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment for supporting our work to protect the North Creek Watershed (and beyond) through the Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund, a grantmaking fund created by the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and administered by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment.

This grant supports our Stewardship Program, which focuses on improving the biological function of North Creek Forest, while simultaneously engaging the community to participate in its care. Our broader goal is to create greater public understanding of the environmental needs of our region.

Support from the Rose Foundation allows us to dedicate staff time to recruit, coordinate and educate volunteers at restoration and monitoring events to ensure that everyone has a positive experience, and that committed volunteers have the opportunity to work up to leadership roles.

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This grant also allows us to provide refreshments for our hard working volunteers, equips us with stewardship and monitoring supplies, and provides funding for an irrigation system based on the plans designed in 2015 by the UW-Bothell’s Citizen Engineer class.

These tangible things translate into impacts that may be hard to quantify, but are the heart of what we do. We are excited that with support from the Rose Foundation, we can continue to provide meaningful forest experiences for:
  • Small children volunteering alongside their parents. As parents pass along a love, respect and desire to protect our native habitats, their children often provide a unique sense of wonder and excitement - infectious for all.  
  • Retired residents who dedicate their time to planting trees that will provide shade for their grandchildren and great grandchildren.
  • Children and young adults who may have never before explored a mature northwest forest. Their time in North Creek Forest can ignite a spark that will last a lifetime and set them on a path to become future champions of Puget Sound.

We are honored to partner with the Rose Foundation to help people understand the connections between upland habitat, water quality, and the health of Puget Sound and to provide opportunities for all ages to make a positive environmental impact. Thank you for supporting this important work throughout our region.

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Earth Day in the Forest

5/3/2016

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This year's restoration site is almost complete, thanks to our hard working UW-REN team, and many volunteers! On Earth Day weekend, we teamed up with Whale Scout, Cascadia College, UW-Bothell, our neighbors, and the general public to continue our work to remove invasive species and enhance the native habitat at the edge of North Creek Forest. 
With 100 volunteers of all ages in attendance, careful planning was needed to make sure everyone stayed busy, safe, and engaged in the project. Our crew leads worked hard to support such a large group, and we spent the first half of the work party pulling weeds, hauling away yard waste (THANK YOU NEIGHBORS), and spreading mulch.  
After a break, we switched gears to work on habitat enhancement projects, which included birdhouse assembly, mushroom colonization, bee house building and tree planting! Thanks to your hard work this restoration site will support an amazing array of native plants and wildlife, and even include oyster mushrooms right along the trail for human foragers to enjoy. 
Thank you to our dedicated volunteers who spent such a lovely spring Saturday working to provide a healthy forest for our community! We are blessed to have so many hard working volunteers, of all ages!
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Thank You Neighbors!

4/27/2016

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On Sat Apr 23 Friends of North Creek Forest hosted a large work party and BBQ in honor of Earth Day. Groups included Whale Scout, UW Bothell and Cascadia College students, scout troops, Starbucks, and other interested community members that numbered 100 volunteers. Thanks to twelve neighbor families who shared their waste bins, we removed over a thousand gallons of plant waste, weighing more than four thousand pounds!
We borrowed bins from:
Tom & Jeanie Robinson
Bill & Ann Goff
Carolyn & Jim Freese
Mark & Nanette Rohrbaugh
Luke & Michelle Brannon
Laura & Don Decker
Linda & Jerry Smedes
Bob & Carolyn Carpenter
Sylvia & Pat Cunningham
Yang Linghai & Lai Ying
Jim & Holly Vonseggern
Cathy & Rick McNeese

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We appreciate your help in restoring damaged areas of your newest parkland and saving the money it would have cost to pay for a King County dumpster.
 
Thanks to all for your work to restore North Creek Forest!
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Feb. 27th Event Recap!

3/8/2016

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PictureWorking as a team to put mulch into wheelbarrows!
Thank you to the Church members, UW Bothell students, high school Honor Society students, and community members who came together on the last Saturday in February to restore a part of North Creek Forest!

At the end of the day, 32 volunteers helped spread 15 cubic feet of mulch, dug up 5 cubic feet of Himalayan blackberry and English ivy, and removed an existing 4 cubic feet of rubbish from this year’s restoration site. Re-mulching the access trail and a large patch of mud helped provide access to the edge of this year’s restoration site, which will enable future volunteers to plant native trees, shrubs, and grasses in those hard to reach locations.

The restoration site is coming along well, and the Forest is looking healthier by the day thanks to all the volunteers and donors who make the restoration projects possible!

Interested in joining us? Come on out on Saturday, March 12th from 10:00am -2:00pm. We will be partnering with Bartlett Tree Service’s Trees for Tomorrow program to plant some native plants that day! Also, please consider joining us for our Earth Day event on Saturday, April 23rd from 10:00am – 2:00pm. As always, please contact our volunteer coordinator, Greg, at gregw@friendsnorthcreekforest.org to sign up!


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Putting mulch into bins to take down to the restoration site.
Final "cleaning" of the mud pit. We don't want to leave any blackberries behind!
Mixing in the mulch! When completed, it will be much easier to access the areas behind this mud pit.
Bringing mulch down the hill to the wheelbarrow station.
Wheelbarrows spread the mulch very fast.
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Friends of North Creek Forest
      PO Box 2053
      Bothell, WA  98041-2053

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Tax ID: 27-5439187

20598 - 112th Ave NE,  Bothell  98011
stewardship work site address
​Directions: 
From I-405 
Take Exit 24
West on Beardslee 
​Right on 112 Ave NE
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  • Home
  • About
    • Strategic Plan 2021-2025
    • Employment Opportunities
    • History
    • 10th Anniversary!
    • Gallery and Info
    • Contact Us
    • Directions
  • Programs
    • Summer Day Camps
    • Community Programs >
      • Forest Bathing
      • Birding
      • Citizen Science
      • Forest Yoga
    • Stewardship _ UWREN
    • Education >
      • Forest Field Trips
      • Leadership Training and Internships
      • Learning at home resources
      • #FNCFselfies
    • Research
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteer
    • Trails Info & Safety tips
  • Support / Donate
    • Plants & Art Event
    • Forest Keepers
    • OktoberFOREST with Cairn Brewing
    • GiveBIG
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    • Wear Your Support