On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Howard L. Ferguson wrote:

> I am almost finished writing an urban chapter for the ODFW and WDFW
> Species-Habitat book, but would like to get some good "real-life"
> grassroots examples for both Oregon and Washington on successful open
> spaces or corridors that were set aside for wildlife.

Somewhere, possibly in the Element Manual File (EMF) at the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife's (WDFW) Wildlife Resource Data Systems
(WRDS), there is a newspaper article about some early Seattle residents
who worked hard to establish Seward Park and O.O. Denny Park (is that
the right name? It's north of St. Edwards along the east shore of Lake
Washington) as reserves of old coniferous forest. At the time that this
article appeared, there was a pair of nesting Bald Eagles in each of these
two parks and virtually no other known pairs in the entire County (this has
changed dramatically since of course....Green Lake...sheesh). I was impressed
at the foresight of those individuals who got these parks established at a time
when Bald Eagles were probably not even thought about. I wish I could find
the article now and provide the names of those responsible.

Of course, now that Bald Eagles nest at Green Lake and the Thurston County
Landfill, it takes some other rare and wonderful attribute to bring home the
message of how valuable these parks are to the greater Seattle area.

Kelly McAllister