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The Bradley Sisters and the English Perennial Garden
Being Australians from Sydney, and very “British,” the two Bradley sisters were certainly familiar with English-style perennial gardens and likely had experience maintaining them. Recently, I realized that…
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Should We Still be Planting Native Trees?
I knew that because of climate change there were no longer any perfect native trees to plant in our region, but I thought that planting a mix of…
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Douglas Squirrels in Forest Park
Seeing a Douglas Squirrel in Forest Park is a good sign, but the population is isolated, and hence vulnerable in the long term without wildlife corridors to the…
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Windfall
Strong winds blasted through Everett during the night of November 4th with gusts up to 50 miles per hour. Afterwards, I walked the several miles of Forest Park…
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Blacktails, Salmonberry, Stinging Nettle, and Cougars
Are there any realistic options for controlling the deer population in Forest Park? If not, will they undo our forest restoration efforts?
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Blackberry Bradley Line
Late fall seems to find me in a wetland untangling Himalayan Blackberry from Salmonberry. Most recently I was working on maintaining and extending a Bradley Line that protects…
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Climate Change in the Puget Lowlands
This year’s extreme dry season is almost surely related to climate change and comes as yet another warning that we’ve got to change some of our forest restoration…
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