If you have an organization located in Pierce County, you may be eligible to sponsor or steward a conservation project through the Pierce County Conservation Futures program. The next application funding cycle begins in 2025, and we want to ensure that your community doesn’t miss the opportunity to participate! Conservation Futures strives to ensure a high quality…
Category: Ecology
Report an environmental issue
[This is information taken directly from the Washington State Department of Ecology. If you see something, you can report it. I am hoping that includes homeless living in the bed of Clover Creek directly on our groundwater resources. – Editor] Department of Ecology: We respond to incidents that pollute and damage land, air, and water….
Clover Creek meeting May 2
The Clover Creek Council and the Clover Creek Restoration Action Alliance have taken the first steps to move forward with our new officers. Just before our board meeting on April 26, Al and Diedre met at the Bank and transferred the account to our new Treasurer. At the meeting, Al turned over his Clover Creek Council Jacket and hat…
April 29 – Flying Tomato fundraiser
The Flying Tomato has offered to donate 20% of their sales on April 29th and on April 30th to the Spanaway Concerned Citizens fight for the Spanaway Marsh! We are so grateful for this opportunity! In order for us to receive this generous donation, they ask that you print out and present the attached flyer when placing your order…
Please, protect the water – a poem
TO THE HEARING EXAMINER Please, protect the water at the heart of our community—The Spanaway Marsh may mean little to some, but not to us. It is our arterial blood,our breath, our home. We are done with the hundred-year destructionof filled-in wetlands, re-routed streams,toxic human pollution and buildings too closeto these arteries of life. We are done with…
Saturday walk at Spanaway Marsh
By Marianne Lincoln Spanaway Concerned Citizens is raising money to fight a Pierce County Executive’s project to build a village of tiny homes to house homeless individuals with drug, alcohol and mental health problems. These are the hardest people to bring into a stable housing situation. There is a plan. (You can see it at…
Historical road from Nisqually to Spanueh Station
Historical information on Spanaway, Spanueh Station of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, and native uses of the area Testimony for the Hearings Examiner on Pierce County Village, April 29, 2024 To local Indians, the area was referred to as “spáduwe” – “where [camas or fern] roots are plentiful”.[1] Multiple tribes used the area for hunting…
Village deadline for written comments April 22
Regarding the April 29 hearings on the Tiny Home Village, Pierce County Village, or whatever they are calling it this week…. All written comments & concerns should be submitted in writing to the Hearings Examiner by Monday April 22nd, for his review to: pchearingexaminer@piercecountywa.gov If you have no idea what I am talking about, read…
Advanced Air Mobility for new eVTOL craft
The era of George Jetson is beginning to arrive. The Federal Aviation Administration is starting discussion with states and local communities about how to safely bring these vehicles, Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL) to our communities. We need to consider where they will land, a new invention called the Vertiport will need locations. Advance…
April 20, 9am, Clover Creek cleanup
And they meant it when they said, boots on the ground. The Clover Creek Restoration Action Alliance (aka The Clover Creek Council) will hold its first creek cleanup this year. The Saturday before Earth Day, April 20, they will meet at 9 a.m. at Yakima Ave and Tule Lake Road, the Parkland Prairie Nature Preserve…
Lakewood, what have you wrought?
Don Anderson (Mayor/City Council), followed by Steve O’Ban (State Senator), both attorneys and officials from Lakewood, worked on County Executive Bruce Dammeier’s proposal to put a community of tiny homes in the watershed above Spanaway Lake. The city recently voted to contribute $1,000,000 to the effort. On the other side of the military base, lake…
April 13 – South Sound Sustainability Expo
For anyone who has interest in ways to save energy, money and resources, this may be an very interesting event to attend. The South Sound Sustainability Expo is being held in Tacoma at the University of Washington Tacoma Campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. One of the participants is the Craft Supply Swap, hosted…
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