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January
LFPSF Annual Meeting, 7:00pm
Jan 20
LFP Council Chambers
February
IVY OUT @ Grace Cole Nature Park
9am - 12pm
Feb. 13
Bird Banding
Feb. 14, 28
March
IVY OUT @ Grace Cole Nature Park
March 6, 10 - 1
April
IVY OUT @ Grace Cole Nature Park
April 24, 10-1
May
IVY OUT @ Grace Cole Nature Park
May 8, 9 - 12
June
IVY OUT
Locations TBA
June 19, 26, 10 - 1
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Thank you to all the volunteers who have helped eradicate ivy throughout LFP.
We are currently continuing our IVY OUT efforts in conjunction with the trail building at Grace Cole Nature Park
Please feel free to join us.
Next IVY OUT Dates - rain or shine
Most will be @ Grace Cole Nature Park
Sat., Feb. 13, 9-12
Sat., March 6, 10 - 1*
Sat., April 24, 10 - 1
Sat., May 8, 9 - 12
Sat., June 19, 10 - 1*
Sat., June 26, 10 -1*
We'll have tools on hand for you. Please wear gloves and weather appropriate gear. Bring your water bottle and we'll provide a snack, courtesy of LFP Garden Club
For more information call:
Mamie at 206-364-4410 or Libby at 206-365-8867
* On these Saturdays, we'll be joining forces with Friends of Cedar River Watershed to work on our restoration projects. Locations TBA
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| LFP Stewardship Foundation Board Members
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President
Mamie Bolender,
Vice President
Jean Reid,
Treasurer
Denise Peters,
Secretary
Libby Fiene
Jim Halliday
Doug Hennick
Kim Josund
Doug Mitchell
Rick Purn
Yuichi Shoda
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Attention Native Plant Lovers
For those of you who would like access to native
plants, especially for large areas, the annual
King Conservation
District bare root plant sale is a great deal. The District is now taking pre-orders until January 31 for bare-root plants for its sale on March 4 and 5. You can order the plants here. |
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Greetings!
As many of you know, we've begun using the "Constant Contact" system to put together eNewsletters (e-mail newsletters) and announcements to let you know what "We" are doing.
The "We" includes all of us - board members, people who assist the board, and most importantly "You" the Foundation Members.
As you look through the newsletters and announcements, please let us know of projects that you think we should be doing. Also, please let us know if you would like to help move us forward by volunteering in some way.
We have an immediate need for an administrative assistant who can work about ten hours a month keeping our database up to date, checking our e-mail account, checking our voicemail, and preparing various short letters and thank you notes to contributors.
We also need someone to update a couple of Web pages on our Web Site that need to be kept current; an update every two weeks or so would suffice. You don't have to be a Web designer or a techie, to do these updates.
Please plan to join us at our annual meeting on January 20th in the Lake Forest Park City Hall Council Chambers at 7pm. I'll update you on what we've done the last year and let you know about some things we have planned for next year. Dennis DePape is a gifted speaker who will remind us what stewardship really is and how we can all contribute. I hope to see you there.
Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year, Steve Plusch, President
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LFP Stewardship Foundation will be holding its annual meeting on Wed. January 20, 2010, 7 - 8:30pm, in the LFP City Council Chambers. Please join us.
Our featured speaker will be:
 Dennis DePape Stewardship - A 6 Step Program
Moving from Information to Transformation
Refreshements will be served.
All ages are welcome. |
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Salmon in the Schools |
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The Lake Forest Park Stewardship Foundation is proud to sponsor a new salmon tank at Ridgecrest Elementary School. This adds a new site to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) program of "Salmon in the Schools," and supplements the existing programs coordinated by Diana Bettelli at Lake Forest Park Elementary, and Katie Johnson at Brookside Elementary.
This expands the reach of the Salmon in the Schools to a third school in our watershed. Liz Whitney's fifth grade students, about half of whom come from LFP, are sponsoring the tank at Ridgecrest. Like their counterparts at LFP and Brookside Elementary Schools, the children keep the tank clean, and check temperature and pH daily, all the while learning about the fragile ecosystem which sustains the salmon eggs in their natural habitat- our streams and wetlands.
Coho eggs arrived with the new year, delivered by long time volunteer, Jim Siscel.
Jim is a former teacher who has shepherded many programs in schools throughout the area. He was ably assisted by Foundation Board member and former caretaker of the LFP Elementary program, Rick Purn.
Equipment has been historically provided by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, though funding resources for the program have become extremely strained in recent years. Through Jim's successful scavenging of equipment and the transfer of equipment from Brookside Elementary to the Ridgecrest program, the system has been brought up and running with funds from the Foundation and supplemented by the Ridgecrest PTA.
Many thanks to Principals Kathryn Noble at Brookside, and Cinco Delgado at Ridgecrest and Aimee Miner at LFP Elementary for their help coordinating. The "new" tank sits in the Ridgecrest lobby for all to enjoy. Stop by and check it out. The students will be happy to share their excitement as they eagerly await the first egg's hatching. |
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If You Were a Carpenter.... |
.....we could use your help. Do you have carpentry skills and a little time to donate to the Salmon in the Schools Program? Katie Johnson, and her students at Brookside Elementary need a new base for their salmon tank. The Stewardship Foundation is soliciting volutneers to work on this project. If you are interested in helping, please contact us at info@lfpsf.org or by calling our voice mail at 206.361.7076 |
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Update on progress at Grace Cole Nature Park
Ivy and Blackberries: OUT
Native Plants: IN |
We had a very successful work party January 9th. There were a dozen high school students from Inglemoor, a family, a student from Kellogg Middle School and a couple from Shorecrest High School.
Mamie donated some plants salvaged from her yard. Tom Kellock donated a large cedar tree and was on hand to plant it. A big thank you to George and Cylvia Grantham, Kirk and Doug from the Whisper Creek area, Annik from Volunteers for Outdoor Washington, Ruth Childs and Libby Fiene.
The Ivy and Blackberries were flying! Stop by the park and see all the new plantings.
See the calendar and article to the left for future work party dates. |
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Bird Banding - Ongoing PSBO Urban Bird Study in LFP and Shoreline |
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Sunday, Jan. 10th was a perfect rain-free day for bird banding in LFP. The birds were active. The yard was busy, but we had to close the mist nets several times due to having more birds than the volunteer banders could keep up with. These fine nets are designed for the easy release of the birds to keep them from being injured.
We banded a new bird  for the project - a white-throated sparrow. This is very exciting, as this species is rarely spotted in Western Washington. We suspect this one was traveling with a flock of Oregon Juncos.
For the day we banded 8 new birds(3 Black-capped chickadees, 2 Chestnut-backed chickadees, 2 Oregon Juncos, 1 White-throated Sparrow), checked and released 5 previously banded birds (2 Black-capped chickadees, 2 Oregon Juncos and 1 Spotted towhee). We had to release 5 birds without banding them (4 Oregon Juncos, and 1 Black-capped chickadee) due to shortage of banders. The nets were only open 1/2 of the time.
A big thank you to all of the volunteers and visitors. And extra thanks Andrea Wuenschel, our site coordinator, Libby and Kerri for supplying delicious muffins and scones and to Kelsey Josund for taking pictures.
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