National Public Lands Day Sites

360 Regional Park

Trim/remove brush and wood from designated trail makers; remove litter; spread wood chips on trails; line trials with falling limbs and various lumber.

Contact: Chad Harvell
Agency: Key Pen Parks
Phone: (253) 884-9240
On the Web: www.keypenparks.com
Location: SR 302 at 144th St | Gig Harbor, Washington 98329
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Camp Murray

Plant native plants on restoration sites; Remove invasive vegetation.

Contact: Rowena Valencia-Gica
Agency: Washington Military Department
Phone: (253) 512-8704
On the Web: /mil.wa.gov/Environmental/Army.shtml
Location: Bldg. 36 Quartermaster Road | Tacoma, Washington 98430
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Alternative Start Date: 2010-10-01
Alternative End Date: 2010-10-31

Interlaken Park - Seattle

Urban Forest Restoration: Invasive removal, sheet mulching, erosion control solutions, environmental education - hands on!

Contact: Kari Olson
Agency: Green Seattle Partnership
Phone: (206) 240-2445
On the Web: www.greenseattle.org
Location: 21st & Interlaken Blvd. | Seattle, King County, Washington 98112
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Alternative Start Date: 1999-11-30
Alternative End Date: 1999-11-30

Lake Sammamish State Park

Volunteers will be helping us to restore Issaquah Creek by removing invasive plants along the creek, allowing us to go back in the fall and plant trees at the site.

Contact: Jema Hayes
Agency: Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
Phone: (206) 812-0122
On the Web: www.mtsgreenway.org
Location: Lake Sammamish State Park | Isssaquah, Washington 98027
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Lummi Island NRCA NW Region

WADNR, in partnership with the Whatcom Association of Kayak Enthusiasts (WAKE), will be hosting this event. Help remove dilapidated wooden picnic tables from this popular boat-in campground, located within the Lummi Island NRCA. Replace the picnic tables with new galvanized steel/composite wood tables.

Contact: Christ Thomsen
Agency: Department of Natural Resources
Phone: (360) 856.3500
On the Web: www.dnr.wa.gov/recreation
Location: Lummi Island | Bellingham, Washington 98262
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Mill Creek Recreation Area

Tree/shrub planting in Rooks Park and/or trail work around Bennington Lake.

Contact: Chris Alford
Agency: US Army Corps of Engineers
Phone: (509) 527-7165
On the Web: www.nww.usace.army.mil/CorpsOutdoors/mcl/mcplist.htm
Location: 3211 Reservoir Rd | Walla Walla, Washington 99362
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Mount Rainier National Park

TBD

Contact: Bethany Van Etten
Agency: National Parks Conservation Association, Northwest Office
Phone: (206) 903-1444 ext26
On the Web: www.npca.org/northwest
Location: 55210 238th Ave. East | Ashford, Washington 98304
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Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument

#1: Invasive Weed Pulling along the Hummocks Trail. #2: Garbage clean up by Sunset Falls and Forest Road 41 #3: In-Cave Garbage clean at Ape Cave and Facilities Maintenance #4: Trail Maintenance along Trail of Two Forests and Marble Mountain Snow Park #5: Warming Shelter Maintenance at Marble Mountain Snow Park #6: In Stream Clean up along the Muddy River and Pine Creek. #7: Garbage Clean up & Facilites Maintenance at Lava Canyon and Lahar View Point #8: Invasive Weed Pulling along Forest Road 83 & 90

Contact: Mary Jean Dowell
Agency: US Forest Service
Phone: 360-449-7815
On the Web:
Location: Marble Mountain Snow Park | Cougar, Washington 98601
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Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument

#1: Invasive Weed Pulling along the Hummocks Trail. #2: Garbage clean up by Sunset Falls and Forest Road 41 #3: In-Cave Garbage clean at Ape Cave and Facilities Maintenance #4: Trail Maintenance along Trail of Two Forests and Marble Mountain Snow Park #5: Warming Shelter Maintenance at Marble Mountain Snow Park #6: In Stream Clean up along the Muddy River and Pine Creek. #7: Garbage Clean up & Facilites Maintenance at Lava Canyon and Lahar View Point #8: Invasive Weed Pulling along Forest Road 83 & 90

Contact: Mary Jean Dowell
Agency: US Forest Service
Phone: 360-449-7815
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Location: Marble Mountain Snow Park | Cougar, Washington 98601
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Mount St. Helens

Trail work, trash and dispersed camping clean up.

Contact: Hailey Heath
Agency: Mount St. Helens Institute
Phone: (360) 449-7826
On the Web: www.mshinstitute.org
Location: 42218 NE Yale Bridge Rd | Amboy, Washington 98601
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Olympic National Forest

Trail work party involving brushing, tread work, and drainage maintenance to the trail

Contact: Jennifer Fujii
Agency: USFS and Washington Trails Association
Phone: (360) 765-2251
On the Web: old.wta.org/cgi-bin.dev/wtaweb.pl?6+sm+18131+WP
Location: South Fork Skokomish Trail | Potlatch, Washington 98584
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Olympic National Forest

Trail work party including tread work to address drainage issues, brushing, and resurfacing trail.

Contact: Jennifer Fujii
Agency: USFS and Pacific Northwest Trails Association
Phone: (360) 765-2251
On the Web: www.fs.fed.us/r6/olympic/index.shtml
Location: Slab Camp Trail | Sequim, Washington 98382
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Olympic National Forest Hood Canal Ranger District

Watershed Cleanup. Volunteers will pick up trash and remove noxious weeds within the Big and Litte Quilcene Watersheds, the water supply for the city of Port Townsend.

Contact: Jennifer Fujii
Agency: USFS
Phone: (360) 379-5610 ext.200
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Location: Hood Canal Ranger District | Quilcene, Washington 98368
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Railroad Bridge Park

Dungeness River Festival, a community festival celebrating the Dungeness River and all it provides for the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Volunteers will help with festival set up, activities, walks, exhibits, and clean up.

Contact: Bob Boekelheide
Agency: Dungeness River Audubon Center
Phone: (360) 681-4076
On the Web: www.dungenessrivercenter.org
Location: 2151 West Hendrickson Road | Sequim, Washington 98382
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Alternative Start Date: 2010-09-24
Alternative End Date: 2010-09-26

San Juan Islands (multiple locations)

TBD - Most likely trimming, weeding, litter clean-up, trail sprucing up and more.

Contact: Christina Giamalis
Agency: San Juan County Parks
Phone: (360) 378-8420
On the Web: www.sanjuanco.com/parks
Location: 350 Court Street #8 | Friday Harbor, Washington 98250
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Seward Park

TogetherGreen Volunteer Day will focus on invasive plant removal (mainly Himalayan blackberry and English ivy) from areas that support an abundance of bird species. By assisting with this project, volunteers will be contributing to the long-term health of Seward Park and the many wildlife and native plants that inhabit this area.

Contact: Gail Gatton
Agency: Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center
Phone: (206) 652-2444 x101
On the Web: sewardpark.audubon.org
Location: 5902 Lake Washington Blvd S. | Seattle, Washington 98118
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Alternative Start Date: 2010-09-18
Alternative End Date: 2010-09-18

Shadow Lake Elementary School

In support of our Nature Nuts environmental education program, we will focus on converting some large sidewalk strip gardens into food gardens – produce to be served in the school cafeteria! Other projects include trail work and garden work in our extensive Outdoor Classrooms. Lunch will be provided!

Contact: Brenda Running
Agency: Public School
Phone: (206) 271-8899
On the Web: www.shadowlakenature.pbwiki.com
Location: 22620 Sweeney Road SE | Maple Valley, Washington 98038
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Skykomish Ranger District

intenance on the historic Iron Goat Trail and possible construction of new trail within the Wild Sky Wilderness. Meet at Martin Creek Trailhead @ 9 AM, back @ 3 PM. BBQ to follow. For signup and more info visit the Volunteers for Outdoor Washington (VOW) website, www.trailvolunteers.org.

Contact: Paul Maciocha
Agency: U.S. Forest Service
Phone: (360) 677-2414
On the Web:
Location: 74920 N.E. Stevens Pass Hwy. | Skykomish, Washington 98288
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Tacoma, WA (Multiple Locations)

Several partners are hosting different activities throughout the city of Tacoma.

Engage in natural area restoration activities: remove invasive species, plant natives trees, move wood chips and more. View www.greentacoma.org for specific locations and project details.

Contact: Chris Gilliand
Agency: Green Tacoma Partnership
Phone: (253) 355-0908
On the Web: www.greentacoma.org
Location: 917 Pacific Ave | Tacoma, Washington 98402
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Tiger Mountain

Volunteers will be helping clean up the High Point Trailhead by helping pick up trash and remove invasive plants such as blackberry. Volunteers will also be helping us repair drainage issues along the Tiger Mountain Trail which will include ditching and building turnpikes.

Contact: Jema Hayes
Agency: Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
Phone: (206) 812-0122
On the Web: www.mtsgreenway.org
Location: Exact Location Varies | Issaquah, Washington 98027
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Turnkey Park

Plant two rain gardens, refurbish gravel trails, prune native trees/shrubs and mulch tree wells

Contact: Victoria Andrews
Agency: City of Kent, Parks, Recreation & Community Services
Phone: (253) 856-5113
On the Web: www.KentWAParks.com
Location: 23312 100th Ave. SE | Kent, Washington 98031
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Washougal Oaks PC Region *Natural Area

Help put up wire tree protectors around 400 Oregon white oaks to keep deer from browsing the trees. Some planting of native shrubs and oaks. Guided tours of the area follows. Fencing provided by RCO grant. (Volunteers should bring gloves, lunch, water.) *Doughnuts and water will be provided.

Contact: Carlo Abbruzzese
Agency: Washington Department of Natural Resources
Phone: (360) 575-5056
On the Web: www.dnr.wa.gov/recreation
Location: 2 Pendleton Way | Washougal, Washington 98671
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Water and Environmental Center

The Walla Walla Americorps team of 25 members will be volunteering at Titus Creek to help with various maintenance tasks: weeding, removing deer guards from established plants, and removing trash and unwanted debris in-stream.

Will be a planting day with Go Green Club community college students and Homelink middle school science students. We will be finishing up the planting phase of the Titus Creek project during this time, planting native trees and shrubs.

WWU students will be joining us for weeding, removing trash and unwanted debris in-stream, and reseeding weeded areas.

Contact: Sarah Fry
Agency: Washington state Community College
Phone: 509-524-5193
On the Web: www.wwcc.edu/CMS/
Location: 500 Tausick Way | Walla Walla, Washington 99362
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Alternative Start Date: 2010-09-13
Alternative End Date: 2010-10-13

Whitman Mission NHS

The restoration of Doan Creek will continue with work on the stream material and growing riparian area next to the creek as well as a monitoring of macroinvertebrates will take place using inventory and monitoring techniques.

Contact: Mike Dedman
Agency: National Park Service
Phone: 509-522-6357
On the Web: www.nps.gov/whmi
Location: 328 Whitman Mission Road | Walla Walla, Washington 99362
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Alternative Start Date: 2010-09-20
Alternative End Date: 2010-09-24

Yacolt Burn State Forest

The 8th annual Pick Up the Burn is a volunteer event to help cleanup the forest after the recreation season in the Yacolt Burn State Forest. This years event will be staged out of two locations Rock Creek Campground and Jones Creeek ORV trailhead. Work will consist of going in groups out in the forest and helping bag and remove garbage and waste that has been dumped or left in the forest and roads. For directions and more information please see our website dnr.wa.gov/recreation

Contact: Nick Cronquist
Agency: Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Phone: (360) 480-2700
On the Web: dnr.wa.gov/recreation
Location: Rock Creek Campground | Battle Ground/Camas, Washington
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Yakima River Canyon

Remove litter, plant trees, landscaping projects, trail work, remove weeds, install benches and campground maintenance.

Contact: Steve A. Smith
Agency: BLM
Phone: (509) 536-1219
On the Web:
Location: 1103 N. Fancher Road | Spokane, Washington 99212
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