Location: Carkeek Park
REGISTRATION LINK
Limited to 15 spots!
WELCOME TO MAPES CREEK
This event is part of the ongoing land stewardship practice at Mapes Creek.
We're going on a field trip to Carkeek Park!
A visit with the forest, creek, shoreline, and all the permanent and returning residents. We're talking about Beaver and Salmon 🦫🐟
We want to broaden understanding of our place in the communities of our city ecosystems. To inform our work as we tend our home forest in South Seattle
We will be guided by
✨Land and waters
✨Trillium's naturalist: Tareq
✨Michael B - a beaver expert
We're capping this group at 15! Open and free to all! Including youth and children.
We'll meet in the parking lot and wander downstream.
Rain or shine. Dress for the weather and for muddy paths
This event is in collaboration with Green Seattle Partnership
These events will serve as an opportunity to learn and practice long-term ecological and relational stewardship.
Trillium offers this justice-oriented container as an opportunity to build connections, learn, practice, heal, create, and weave resilient communities anchored in land and water.
THIS PROJECT IS FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN:
Learning the skills of forest and watershed stewardship and restoration.
Learning how to nurture a reciprocal relationship with land.
Weaving a resilient community.
Cultivating a sense of place.
Learning about the ecology of this region and how to connect with and recognize flora and fauna.
Taking meaningful action towards climate, land, and social justice.
Exploring a career in the field of land stewardship.
THE CREEK
These waters run through unceded Duwamish Territory and have been tended by Coast Salish peoples for millennia. We advocate for their justice, honor their stewardship, and walk in their footsteps.
Today, the creek is tended by many communities of caregivers.
We collaborate with them in shared care for the land and in a spirit of respect and humility.
The first water drops of Mapes Creek percolate through a remnant second-growth forest in South Seattle, where we will be visiting and tending.
It meanders in the recovering forest and through Kubota Garden, where it fills a necklace of ponds.
It then plunges into a dark pipe as it runs through the Rainier Beach neighborhood.
It sees daylight again through Be’er Sheva park as a recovering salmon habitat, and pours into x̌ačuʔ (Hatchu - Lake Washington).
PREPARE YOURSELF!
Rain or Shine! We will be on muddy trails. Dress for the occasion!
We will have access to a restroom and drinking water, but please bring your own water to start.
This event is free to all
Please register HER. We’re limited to 15 spots
In collaboration with Green Seattle Partnership
Questions? Feedback? Yes please! hello@trillium.eco