If folks are interested in other "trading sweat for access to
birding opportunities" or just want to volunteer for a good cause, the King
County Habitat Partners Program can help. Habitat Partners is an Adopt-a
Site program that asks volunteers to take a streamside restoration site
under their care. During the summer months, the responsibilities primarily
involve knocking back the invasive weeds from the newly planted native trees
and shrub and other general care. In the fall and spring, volunteers help
when additional plantings are needed.

Some habitat partners have offered to build bat boxes or bird houses
for some of the sites. The volunteers' work varies and is quite rewarding.
I'm very much a rookie birder, but I have seen a wide variety of bird
species on the sites. The sites range from urban streams to historic
homesteads.

Some sites require permission to access (which you get by being a
habitat partner). All sites are along rivers or streams in King County.

Questions? Comments? Interest? Contact Greg Rabourn at
greg.rabourn at metrokc.gov or call 206-296-1923.
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> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:25:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Russell Rogers <rrogers at halcyon.com>
> To: Tweeters <TWEETERS at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Glacial Heritage
> Message-ID: <Pine.GUL.3.96.980616072041.27993B-100000 at coho.halcyon.com>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
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>
> On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Tom Schooley wrote:
>
>
> > Please do note the Glacial Heritage Natural Area is owned by Thurston
> > County, not the state. This is a CLOSED county park and is NOT open to
> the
> > public. Permission may be granted by the Thurston County Parks
> Department,
> > but it is not regularly given. Russell Rogers is doing a specific study
> of
> > the birds of Glacial Heritage Natural Area.
> >
>
> Tom is correct, the area is not open to the public. The Nature Conservancy
> putting a lot of effort into resotration of the area. One way to gain
> access to it is to volunteer with the TNC to pull Scot's Broom. If you
> don't want to pull broom, the kits can be seen from the tree farm side of
> the gate.
>
> Russell
>
>
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