Volunteer Event: Cotton Hill Park

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Event Description

Located in the Highlands neighborhood, this naturally wooded green space is 2.6 acres. Informal footpaths lead you through this beautiful area with its abundance of indigenous shrubs, plants and trees.

Today’s project is part of a larger collaboration known as the Green Kirkland Partnership (GKP). The GKP is a public private partnership between the City of Kirkland & the Cascade Land Conservancy. This partnership seeks to restore forested parkland in the City of Kirkland, create an informed, involved and active community of citizens, City staff, educators, business leaders, and conservationists, and ensure sustainability of our forested parklands through proper, long-term maintenance and community stewardship. Go to http://www.greenkirkland.org to learn more about the GKP.

Today participants are taking park in a huge community effort to restore our urban forests. Participants should expect to learn a brief history of Cotton Hill Park and an overview urban forests and information on Earth Day and the Green Kirkland Partnership. EarthCorps staff will discuss forest structure, native vs. non-native plant species, and environmental restoration. The service project includes the removal of invasive plant species such as Himalayan blackberry and English ivy. These invasive plants have invaded Kirkland’s urban forests and they are outcompeting native plants for nutrients and sunlight.

Directions

Cotton Hill Park
110 Ave NE & NE 98th Street

EarthCorps encourages volunteers to use public transportation or carpool to our events.

From 405
Cotton Hill Park (110th Ave NE & NE 98th St., Kirkland 98033)

From I-405, take the NE 85th Street/WA-908 exit (exit 18) and go west towards downtown Kirkland.

Turn right onto 6th Street (at traffic light at bottom of hill)

Turn right onto 12th Avenue, which crosses the railroad tracks and becomes 110th Avenue NE. Park at the end of 110th Ave.

For more information, contact:

Lina Anne Rose, Project Manager
(206) 793-2454
linaearthcorps.org