Get Your Hands Dirty!
Friends of Hooven Forest and the Sno-Isle Sierra Club Group are teaming up to begin removing invasive holly from Hooven Forest on Sunday, March 29th, from 11:00 - 1:00.
Here is a link with lots more info and the registration method. Contact Kate Lunceford if you’d like to carpool to Woodinville. UW student Cisco accomplished excellent work mapping the invasive species as part of his Capstone Project for UWB and will be there to show volunteers where to work.
The state Court of Appeals has spoken again: From the Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE): On Feb. 17th for the third consecutive time, a Washington court has ruled that the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) must study alternatives for reducing climate damages associated with logging mature legacy forests on state forestlands. In a
unanimous decision, the Division One Court of Appeals affirmed King County Justice Kristin Ballinger’s
May 2024 ruling that
DNR violated the State Environmental Policy Act by failing to consider alternatives that include setting aside the mature, structurally complex components of its timber sales as forest carbon reserves, limiting logging to variable density thinning of younger plantation trees, building no new roads and earning revenues from carbon markets.
Read more
here. In response to the ruling, CSE sent a
letter to Commissioner Upthegrove and other members of the Board of Natural Resources asking for a pause on 12 timber sales that include logging of mature legacy forests and construction of new logging roads. In each case, CSE submitted extensive comments on the draft SEPA analyses, calling attention to the fact that DNR failed to take any steps to understand climate harms.
Grants: LWVSC has received $1,000 from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for our education campaign. That brings our funds to $1,500. We’ll begin buying Meta ads in March to spread the word in Snohomish County about the full ecological value of structurally complex forests.
Mother of the Mother Tree Suzanne Simard and Jessica Hernandez are coming on March 30th at 7:00 P.M. to Third Place Books. Tickets are required. Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard—author of the bestselling book
Finding the Mother Tree, and a pioneering researcher on tree connectivity and communication is coming for a conversation about her new book,
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World. Suzanne will be joined in conversation by indigenous scientist and climate justice leader Jessica Hernandez, author of
Fresh Banana Leaves and
Growing Papaya Trees.
We welcome folks interested in working on strategy to protect legacy forests in Snohomish County. Join us for an hour at the link on the calendar on the second Tuesdays at 10:00 A.M.