Ecology

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(Ed. Note: Wallyhood welcomes Jeanie Taylor as our new contributing writer, focusing on gardening. Jeanie owns Taylor Gardens, a gardening coaching service and Wallyhood sponsor, holds a B.S. in Botany, an M.S. in Conservation Biology , and teaches workshops for home gardeners on propagation and sustainable gardening. If you have questions on gardening, please e-mail her at [email protected] and she'll try to answer them here. Welcome, Jeanie!) Welcome to the inaugural Wallyhood Garden Questions column. I am pleased to be taking questions that will…

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Branching out to N. Wallingford

You may remember last month we posted a call for volunteers to walk around the neighborhood and identify some of the trees. Mike Ruby, who's been heading up the project has been pretty pleased with the response so far, but needs a little more help.  Mike sent me the following e-mail last night: We got the last list from SDOT (Seattle Dept of Transportation) yesterday and are ready to work on the area north of 50th. We have four areas, mostly…

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One, two, tree, four…

Mike Ruby needs your help. Recent studies show that tree cover in Seattle has declined dramatically, and Mike’s been working on a project that, once complete, will hopefully shed some light on how the trees of Wallingford have changed over the past two decades.   Using two existing lists that inventory trees in the neighborhood, he wants to determine which of them are still around. To give you a little bit of history, back in 1992, two tree-minded people—Arthur Lee Jacobson and…

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Marco! Pollock! Marco! Pollock!

Thanks to a Seattle Craigslist ad, we've discovered some fishy business happening at Gas Works Park this Saturday. Apparently, giant sea lions (made of cloth, with humans inside) will be scavenging the park in search of their dwindling food supply -- namely, Pollock.  A Greenpeace press release explains the problem this way: "Seattle based industrial fishing fleets are putting entire ecosystems at risk. Ships leave from Seattle with huge steel nets and heavy chains to trawl the bottom of our oceans…

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Chasing Molecules

Portland-based author Elizabeth Grossman will be speaking at the Good Shepherd Center this coming Monday, March 8th about her book, Chasing Molecules. From her web site: Grossman is an eloquent scientific muckraker, outing the truth about commonly used hazardous chemicals that are leaching out of everything from plastic bottles to children's toys and infiltrating the biosphere and our bodies to deleterious effect...Grossman profiles the worst offenders, including bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates, but she also portrays the good guys who are…

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