Swamp Creek Habitat Restoration Project is a project of Sno-King Watershed Council, a 501c3 non-profit organization, in collaboration with the City of Kenmore. We are currently working in Wallace Swamp Creek Park and at 175th St/Swamp Creek South through the City’s Adopt A Park Program. Our primary goal is to restore native vegetation, improving biodiversity and habitat for native wildlife and revitalizing the Swamp Creek watershed. Our current stewardship is focused on removing invasive plant species and replanting with native bushes and trees.
We do this work on the ancestral land of the first peoples of this region–the Coast Salish, the Muckleshoot, the Duwamish, the Sammamish, the Stillaguamish, the Suquamish–peoples who have stewarded this land since time immemorial and who are very much alive and present as good stewards of the land to this day. It is with gratitude to and because of them that we have the honor of tending to this land with the hope of restoring it to a healthy, native ecosystem where native insects, fish, birds, and mammals, including humans, can be sustained and thrive for generations to come.
Volunteering your time at projects such as the Swamp Creek Habitat Restoration Project is one way you can give back to the earth.
In the past, we have shared information about how to support the Duwamish in their quest for federal recognition. We learned recently that this a complex issue–but of course!–with multiple points of view. Read more about the Muckleshoot perspective. And a Letter of Hope from the Duwamish Tribe. We hope you will join us in will holding space for differing indigenous perspectives, reflecting on how European contact affected indigenous cultures–both historically and into the present day, and keeping in mind how the legacy of European contact is intertwined with current-day issues of climate and environment.
And keep coming out for habitat restoration. We need each other.
