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Kiwanis Ravine
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East of Discovery Park

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PROJECT STATUS

EVENTS:

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Lise Ward, Senior Real Property Agent

Seattle Parks and Recreation
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98134

206-733-9106

lise.ward@seattle.gov

Thank you Seattle! This acquisition is complete.
The Parks and Green Spaces Levy allocated funding for restoration of the Kiwanis Ravine. Please visit: http://seattle.gov/parks/projects/kiwanis/

Seattle Parks acquired a .48 property in Kiwanis Ravine at 4441 Brygger Dr W, shown in the photo below in August 2005. The acquisition is a beautiful site on the edge of the ravine at the confluence of the east and west forks of Wolfe Creek.

Heron Habitat Helpers and other volunteers are restoring the property with native plants in keeping with the Kiwanis Ravine Management and Monitoring Plan.

LOCATION

East of Discovery Park

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Photos by Pam Cahn

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Potential acquisitions to connect and extend existing green space in Kiwanis Ravine.

Kiwanis Ravine is just a block east of Discovery Park in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. This urban forest and wildlife corridor is home to Seattle's largest great blue heron nesting colony, with 59 active nests in 2006 (an increase from 37 nests in 2000). The great blue herons nest in the colony from about February through mid-summer each year.

In 1993, the City adopted the Greenspace Policy to encourage the preservation of green spaces in Seattle. The policy included maps for more than 30 greenspaces. The policy aimed to preserve natural landscape and habitat; provide natural buffers between land uses; mitigate noise and air pollution; reduce need for constructed storm water systems; and preserve natural drainage. Kiwanis Ravine was one of the green spaces mapped in the policy.

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COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

Heron Habitat Helpers, Friends of Discovery Park, and other citizen groups, including Washington Native Plant Society, volunteer to preserve and restore Kiwanis Ravine. Their activities have included a major "Ivy-Out" effort.

On November 12, 2002, the Pro Parks Levy Oversight Committee included Kiwanis Ravine among the greenspaces to be further considered for acquistion through the Pro Parks Levy Green Spaces category.

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