The Swamp Creek watershed is located on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish, Stillaguamish, and Suquamish Peoples. The creek originates in the Paine Field and Casino Road area of South Everett, and the watershed drains water from Martha Lake, Lake Stickney, Scriber Lake, and portions of Lynnwood, Everett, Bothell, Kenmore, Brier, Mountlake Terrace, and…
We had set out to sweep through a forested backyard on the traditional lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish Peoples, a bit east of Lake Sammamish. The forest was beautiful and quite healthy, full of mossy bigleaf maples and vine maples, native conifers, and a variety of native ferns including sword, lady, and bracken.…
The team here at Habitat Restoration Specialists spent a few weeks tackling a massive blackberry patch stretching along a road under some powerlines, alongside a forest buffer and some fences. By the end of our time on this large site, we had cut down about 136,000 square feet of blackberry! HRS owner Derek working his…
Our work at Habitat Restoration Specialists takes us all around the region to steward the various sites we are restoring. In order to reach these sites however, it requires us to drive many miles, which burns a lot of fuel. In order to mitigate the impact we have on the environment by driving these miles,…