Working together to maintain and restore our parks

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OUR PLAN            OUR PARKS            OUR PARTNERS

The Green Redmond Partnership is building a sustainable network of healthy urban greenspace for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future generations by bringing 1,035 acres of Redmond’s forested parkland into active management over the next 20 years. Although this is an ambitious task, it is crucial for the health of our forested parklands and our city, and it is only possible with the help of an engaged and empowered community.

In 2007, the City of Redmond and the Cascade Land Conservancy formed a partnership to help make Redmond’s vision of a sustainable, healthy forest a reality. We were inspired by the continued successes of the Green Seattle, Green Tacoma, and Green Kirkland Partnerships to work toward this vision.

Redmond’s forested parklands face the same kinds of pressures and problems as do many urban forests in the Puget Sound Region, including fragmentation of greenspaces, an invasive-dominated understory that inhibits native species from regenerating, a declining tree canopy, and inadequate resources for natural-area management and restoration. These pressures diminish the benefits provided by these valuable urban forests, such as reduced stormwater runoff, improved water and air quality, attractive communities and increased property values, greenhouse gas reduction, habitat for native wildlife, and improved quality of life. The Green Redmond Partnership works to protect this important legacy of beautiful parks and vibrant communities for our children and great-grandchildren.

Our vision is a city with invasive-free, sustainable, forested parklands. Redmond’s urban forest will be supported by an aware and engaged community in which individuals, neighborhoods, nonprofits, businesses, and city government all work together to protect and maintain their valuable public resources.

Since the program was adopted by the City Council in December of 2007, the Green Redmond Partnership has been working to bring together all stakeholders interested in active natural-area management and stewardship in Redmond, who will help carry our plan into the future. We hope that the Green Redmond Partnership will be a model for the future management of the many additional acres of valuable urban natural areas in our city and in other cities like this one.

We need your help!

To find out more about the Partnership and how you can get involved, please contact greenredmond@cascadeland.org

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