April 17
Seattle Sites of the Day:

Ravenna Creek Alliance

"The Ravenna Creek Daylighting Project is designed to restore Ravenna Creek
as a natural waterway between Ravenna Park and University Slough. ... Join
the neighborhood in the restoration of an historic creek. Bring fish back by
reestablishing habitat to reconnect Ravenna Park and Union Bay.
"Earth Day, April 22, 2000, 10:00 a.m. - Ravenna Park work party for removing
invasive plants and planting and maintaining native plantings. Meet at the
kiosk at the north side of the ball field on NE 55th."
Western Land Exchange Project

"In recent years, however, there have been significant increases not only in
the amount of public land put up for trade, but in the number of land swaps
that appear to benefit the private land owner rather than the interests of
the public. ... In more and more cases, the Forest Service and Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) are trading ecologically important lands to mining,
timber, grazing, and development interests in return for damaged private
lands."
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April 16 - 22
Seattle Site of the Week:


Tweeters Birding Email

"Welcome to Tweeters, ... serving the University of Washington, Washington
State, and the Cascadia region as a public service and scientific research
tool. Tweeters was founded around the end of 1992 by Dan Victor of the
Washington Ornithological Society and the Seattle Audubon Society, with
three people sharing messages about bird sightings. From this informal
beginning it has spread around the Northwest, and now has a wide variety of
regional subscribers from Oregon, Idaho, British [Columbia] area. The
University of Washington listprocessor was added in March of 1994...
"Anyone may subscribe to this free service. Unique field trip reports,
interesting sightings, unusual bird anecdotes, scientific queries, questions
for the experts, all messages are welcome."
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