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Mike Arizona has spent 15 years working in an office next to the Duwamish River. Two years ago he had seen enough of the jungle of invasive plants choking off the native plants along the river in ...
On September 14, Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU) and partners City of Tukwila, Forterra and CBRE will launch the Restore the Duwamish Shoreline Challenge, a multi-year effort to unite Tukwila ...
Tucking native plants into the soil where there had been ivy and blackberry may seem like a small act. But to hundreds of volunteers who turned out Saturday for Earth Day restoration work at 10 ...
If the loss of habitat wasn’t enough to drive wildlife away, pollution finished the job. Over the 20th century, the water and mud was poisoned with arsenic, mercury, and PCBs.
Boeing built an empire on the banks of the Duwamish River and now it s trying to return some of the favor. Workers on Friday rolled out mats of native grasses and anchored them along banks that ...
Duwamish Alive! brings together over 30 conservation groups, businesses, and government entities, organizing hundreds of volunteers to work at 6 sites in the river's lower watershed.
Reclamation work on a Boeing property on the Lower Duwamish River in 2014 included placing tufted hairgrass, bulrush, willows, big leaf maple and more than 170,000 native plants on 5 acres along ...
Duwamish River is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the country, and it's been undergoing extensive cleanup for decades. ... including the native plants,” Lopez said.
SEATTLE - Dusty tractor-trailer rigs rumble by, a machine shop sprawls behind chain-link fencing topped with razor wire and stacks of shipping containers loom over a tiny patch of green on the ...