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Green Kirkland Partnership
Kirkland, Ivy out, ivy removal, community stewardship
20 Year Forest Restoration Plan Published!
Click here to download plan (10Mb)
Celebrate Mother's Day weekend by doing something good for your Mother Earth!
click here for information on our volunteer events.
Great Coverage for Earth Day!
Read Nona Ganz's May 7th article in the Kirkland Reporter
Click here to see the coverage on King 5 News and
our KOMO TV Public Service Announcement
Cotton Hill Park, 9am-12pm
The Green Kirkland Partnership brought a team of goats (about 60) to help clear invasive plants at Cotton Hill Park for this year's Earth Day! Despite the weather 160 dedicated volunteers also lent a hand to remove additional invasive plants in the more sensitive areas of the park.
A big applause for our outstanding volunteers and goats! Pictures coming shortly!
If you missed this event, don't worry there are plenty more opportunities to help our forested natural areas. Click here for our full 2008 volunteer events list
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Goldsmith and Associates celebrate 50 years through volunteer service with the Green Kirkland Partnership
The company will celebrate 50 years in business by working at Watershed Park to help remove ivy and blackberry. We thank them for their contribution to the Green Kirkland Partnership and congratulate them on 50 years in business.
About Goldsmith: Goldsmith is a premier land use engineering consultant in the Pacific Northwest. It serves its clients as lead planner, civil engineer, and land surveyor for Commercial Projects, Master Planned Communities, Residential and Mixed Use Subdivisions, and Golf Course Communities.Celebrating this Spring - 50 years in business, the firm has grown from its original 5 employees to over 50 today. http://www.goldsmithengineering.com/
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Click here to watch a slideshow of recent GKP work parties.
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About Us
The City of Kirkland has a considerable wealth of
forested parklands, most of which are maintained as natural areas for wildlife habitat and passive recreation. These parks and greenbelts strengthen local neighborhoods, improve property values, and make communities attractive places to live.
The City of Kirkland and Cascade Land Conservancy launched the Green Kirkland Partnership in an effort to tackle the growing invasive species problem and promote community stewardship. In order to educate youth groups, Kirkland has initiated a summer youth training program known as the Kirkland Youth Employment Program. This program is designed to educate middle school and high school students about resource management, leadership skills, volunteer management, and provide job skills and career development training.
The Green Kirkland Partnership will be hosting work parties at four different parks this year. Cotton Hill is the newest addition to the effort to eradicate invasive plants and replant natives.
For more information contact Leslie Batten.
The Green Kirkland Partnership thanks the King County Department of Natural Resources Land and Water Division for the generous grant funding from the Wild Places in City Spaces Grant program.