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Wednesday
April 19, 2000

April 19
Seattle Sites of the Day:

Cascadia Quest

"The young people in our program complete over 40 environmental restoration projects throughout King County each year. ... Our graduates are now working in resource agencies and on environmental projects in this region, across the country, and in their home communities around the world. Similar projects have been developed in India, the Philippines, Chile, Pakistan, and Argentina."

Friends of Pritchard Beach Park

"More than four acres of wet park land... is being restored to... a marshy, wildlife-friendly wetland. ... Pritchard Beach Wetland/Wildlife Education Center works in partnership with nearby schools... Over 1000 volunteers within various partner organizations are committed to the preparation and sustainability of the project. ... This project will be a prototype for twenty other schools to follow..."

Tue Apr 25 - FOPBP Meeting, 7 - 9 PM, 5500 S. Grattan St.

Scooters of Seattle
Vicky Tamaru

"I spent every waking hour at school either studying or on... Radio Free Hawaii as the unfamed (or perhaps even slightly famed) Poptart Seance. Island life served to be oppressing. I wanted to be far away from the pastel plastic scooters... an ex-boyfriend had once told me there were Vespas to be had on the 'mainland.'"

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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