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Volume 16 - Issue 3 | Fall 2019 | Quarterly Publication
THE TAHOMAVIEW
NEW SHORELINES PROGRAM
TO ADDRESS MARINE ENVIRONMENT
We’re excited to launch and announce our new Shore Friendly Pierce program! Program staff, including our new Shorelines Program
Manager, Mary Krauszer, are already out doing site visits and ready to start providing technical assistance to shoreline property owners.
So reach out and let us know if you’re interested in making your property Shore Friendly!
In 1999, the Pierce Conservation District Mixed in with the emotion and sense – as the freshwater rivers and streams
reacted to the Endangered Species Act of purpose around salmon and where salmon spawn and hatch.
listing of local salmon populations by orca recovery efforts is a growing
undertaking a countywide inventory of understanding of the critical role Pierce Conservation District is proud
fish passage blockages, secured funding nearshore environments play, and to announce the launch of the Shore
to repair some of these blockages, how much of this landscape has been Friendly Pierce program to address the
acquired key properties along salmon- compromised by human activity. restoration and protection of our local
rich South Prairie Creek, and stepped up Shoreline development, like the addition shorelines. With funding through the WA
riparian restoration efforts. Last year, as of hard armor bulkheads, interrupts Department of Fish & Wildlife’s Estuary
the plight of the Southern Resident Killer nearshore processes that allow for the and Salmon Restoration Program,
Whales became more dire, the District formation of critical habitat areas like the District is developing the Shore
spearheaded a Puget Sound-wide call to eel grass beds, pocket beaches, and Friendly program in cooperation with
action for those concerned about this estuaries. These habitats are necessary the Thurston and Mason CD’s for an
iconic population of marine mammals. nurseries for juvenile salmon as well as approach that coordinates messaging,
Now a statewide event, Orca Recovery the forage fish that make up the bottom outreach, and development of shoreline
Day continues to educate and inspire of the food chain. Healthy nearshore recovery projects.
citizens to support actions and policies to environments are as critical to salmon
bring our killer whales back to health. recovery – and therefore orca recovery Continued on back page...
WHAT’S INSIDE WHO WE ARE
2 PCD’S NEW SHORELINES PROGRAM MANAGER BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Jeanette Dorner, Chair
AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Scott Gruber, Vice-Chair
Welcome Mary Krauszer + Mehgan Nishiyama Dr. Brian Sullivan, Auditor
John Hopkins, Member
Cindy Haverkamp, Member
3 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Hannah Feback, Associate Supervisor
Summer Programs Don Gourlie, Associate Supervisor
Envirothon Winners Advance Sheila Wynn, Associate Supervisor
Soil Poster Contest Bill Schiller, Associate Supervisor
DISTRICT STAFF
4 HABITAT IMPROVEMENT Kalicia Bean, Community Garden Program Coordinator
Fall Planting Paul Borne, KGI Farm Resource Specialist
Melissa Buckingham, Water Quality Improvement &
Monitoring Program Director
5 ON THE FARM Robin Buckingham, Farm Resource Specialist
Fall Farm Workshops Kramer Canup, Habitat Improvement Technician
Carly Canter, Administrative Assistant
Are You A Polinator Pal? Selena Corwin, Senior Finance & Administrative Director
Nicholas Cusick, Climate Resiliency Program Coordinator
7 HARVEST PIERCE COUNTY Jayme Gordon, Habitat Improvement & Environmental
Education Program Director
Native Plant Sale 2020 Mary Krauszer, Shorelines Program Manager
Chris Madden, Harvest Pierce County Program Specialist
9 WATER QUALITY Camila Matamala-Ost, Volunteer Coordinator & Outreach Specialist
Kristen McIvor, Harvest Pierce County Program Director
Habitat Stewardship Happenings Ryan Mello, Executive Director
Work Party Opportunities Renee Meschi, Harvest Pierce County Program Coordinator
Stream Team Monitoring Caleb Mott, Water Quality Technician
Local Water Quality Data James Moore, AmeriCorps Member
Alison Nichols, Crop Farm Specialist
Mehgan Nishiyama, Administrative Assistant
13 REGIONAL CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP Belinda Paterno, Water Quality Program Coordinator
PROGRAM Isabel Ragland, Water Quality Monitoring Program Manager
Cynthia Ross, Finance Coordinator
RCCP Cost Share Kate Terpstra, Habitat Improvement Coordinator
Regional Watershed Councils René Skaggs, Farm Planning & Agricultural Assistance Program Director
Madeleine Spencer, Harvest Pierce County Program Coordinator
Kristine Swanner, Finance Administrative Assistant
14 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Chris Towe, Environmental Education Program Manager
Allan Warren, Communications & Development Director
NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE
Puyallup Field Office (253) 845-9272
CONTACT US
PIERCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT
308 Stewart Avenue | Puyallup, WA 98371
P: (253) 845-9770 | TF: (866) 845-9485
EMAIL: info@piercecd.org
MAIL: PO BOX 1057 | Puyallup, WA 98371
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SHORELINES PROGRAM MANAGER
TO LEAD NEW SHORE FRIENDLY
PIERCE PROGRAM
It is with much excitement that we Sound ecosystems. I was born and worked upstream from conservation,
welcome Mary Krauszer as the new raised in Alaska and moved to Tacoma nurturing attitudes toward
program manager for Shore Friendly in 2008 to attend the University stewardship action. I look forward
Pierce! With an academic background of Puget Sound. I fell in love with to moving my efforts downstream
in marine biology and professional Washington state and the South to maximize my impact and directly
experience developing the first-ever Sound region. address the health of Puget Sound in
ranger program for Metro Parks a more concrete way. When I’m not at
Tacoma, Mary brings a unique skill My field work in intertidal ecology work or walking with my greyhound,
set to the District’s effort to improve and nearshore ecosystems you can find me on the track with the
nearshore ecosystems in Pierce introduced me to shoreline armoring Dockyard Derby Dames, Tacoma’s
County. Here’s a little more about and the benefits of shore friendly roller derby league.
Mary, in her own words: methods. With a background in
environmental education and Contact our new Shorelines Program
I am thrilled to join the Pierce community engagement with Metro Manager, Mary Krauszer, at
Conservation District team and Parks Tacoma, Franklin Conservation maryk@piercecd.org or
to work to make tangible, positive District, and Slater Museum of (253) 845-9770 ext. 113
change for landowners and Puget Natural History, among others, I have
MEHGAN NISHIYAMA, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Mehgan joined Pierce Conservation District as an Administrative Assistant
in August of 2019, after serving nine years in the Air Force Reserves. She will
be responsible for providing general administrative support to our staff. She
was born and raised in WA and enjoys volunteering at The Humane Society
for Tacoma & Pierce County.
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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
4th grade students visited Morse Wildlife Preserve with our Environmental Education team earlier this summer to learn about prairies and
wetlands and help our partners at Forterra with restoration at this critical site.
SUMMER PROGRAMS KEEP THE ENVIROTHON WINNERS ADVANCE
After winning the South Sound regional Envirothon
LEARNING GOING competition, Tacoma’s Science and Math Institute team
Learning doesn’t end with the school year, so our EE traveled to Carnation for the state event in May. Teams
program has been hard at work this summer. In addition from around the state gathered to test their wits against
to hosting two summer day camps in the Salishan the best our state has to offer. In the end, Ingraham High
neighborhood, we visited partner camps throughout the School from Seattle took home first place and the right to
summer months. We made stops at the Tacoma Nature represent Washington at the North American competition
Center for a salmon lesson, looked at aquatic insects at in North Carolina in July.
Bradley Lake Park with a Pierce College camp, and visited
Truman Middle School for some science activities as part Envirothon represents a unique opportunity for high
of their summer learning academy. schoolers to learn more about the environment and natural
resources. Conservation Districts from around the country
Interested in reserving a program for your group? play an important role in hosting these competitions,
Contact our Environmental Education team: while also showcasing a variety of career options for these
ChrisT@piercecd.org or (253) 845 -9770 ext. 112 environmentally conscious youth.
Interested in reserving a SOIL POSTER CONTEST
program for your group? Do you know a student artist who is also into science? PCD
Contact our is participating in the NACD soil poster contest, available
Environmental to K-12 youth. This current theme is “Life in the Soil: Dig
Education team: Deeper.” It has been a fun add-on to our soil lessons that we
ChrisT@piercecd.org or have delivered to local schools.
(253) 845 -9770 ext. 112
For more information on the poster contest, or to schedule
a program with our education team, visit piercecd.org
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HABITAT IMPROVEMENT
Pink salmon return in odd number years, so don’t miss your chance to come see them fill South Prairie Creek. Help us restore their habitat
on October 12th.
FALL PLANTING
The pinks are running! The pinks are will be the active construction zone of
running! In odd-numbered years (hello, the project that is planned to improve
2019!) pink salmon return to Puget salmon habitat in the mainstem of South
AT SOUTH Sound streams including South Prairie
Creek, along with their fellow salmonids
Prairie Creek, recreate a historic side
channel through the floodplain, and plant
PRARIE CREEK
Chinook, Coho, Chum and Cutthroat. more than three dozen acres.
Join us for a morning of planting along
South Prairie Creek on October 12th, Register for this planting on our
PRESERVE
2019 - 9:00am - 12:00pm, and a chance website at piercecd.org/calendar.aspx.
to see some of these fish in action. Confirmation of project details and
driving directions provided upon
Along with salmon viewing, we will be registration.
planting 1,300 plants in an area tucked
in between South Prairie Creek and Contact Jayme Gordon for more
a little tributary called Silver Springs. information jaymeg@piercecd.org or
This planting continues our work to (253) 845-9770 ext. 102
install trees and shrubs outside of what
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ON THE FARM
FALL FARM WORKSHOPS
POULTRY PROCESSING – HANDS ON!
September 8th, 2019 – 1:00pm - 5:00pm / RSVP for Location
Current Washington State Department of Agriculture regulations allow farmers with fewer than
1,000 birds to process and sell them directly to customers. If you have been thinking about
raising birds for consumption but were hesitant to jump in due to lack of processing experience,
this hands-on, how-to workshop is the class for you! Join Bright Ide Acres and PCD for a full Farm Resources Available
walk through on setting up the equipment PCD rents out, processing the birds, and efficiently at The District Include:
cleaning up at the end of the day. Registration for this class is $100 and each participant will get
to take home the chicken they process. • Free, No-obligation
farm visits
To register for this workshop, please visit our website - www.piercecd.org/calendar.aspx
or call Robin Buckingham at 253-845-9770 x 128 • First five free soil
testing*
MUD AND MANURE MANAGEMENT
September 12th, 2019 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm / Key Peninsula Civic Center • Manure Share Program
Yes, fall & winter rains are coming! Join Pierce Conservation District to learn the details of good
mud and manure management. Start now to prepare your farm for the rainy weather — make • Rental of:
your management good for your livestock, good for the environment, and good for you! - Manure spreaders -
1/2 cubic yard & 2 cubic
To register for this workshop, please visit our website - www.piercecd.org/calendar.aspx yard capacities
or call Paul Borne at 253-845-9770 x 105 - No-till seed drill
- Poultry processing
FORAGE ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT equipment
October 1st, 2019 – 5:00pm - 7:30pm Pierce Conservation District Office
Good quality hay is a key component of any livestock operation. Whether you’re cutting for sale, • Loan of:
harvesting for your own livestock, or buying in from other producers, knowing what nutrition - Hay probe
your hay is providing is an important consideration. Join Joe Harrison, WSU Animal Science and - Electric fencing tools
Extension Specialist, and several local farmers for information on why, how, and when to test your - Temporary electric
hay stocks. We’ll also be exploring what to do with that information to improve hay yield and quality. fencing
To register for this workshop, please visit our website - www.piercecd.org/calendar.aspx
or call Robin Buckingham at 253-845-9770 x 128 • Cost share assistance
*The first five soil tests
POLLINATOR CONSERVATION IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES are now free. This is an
SHORT COURSE increase from previous
November 19th, 2019 - 9:00am - 3:00pm / WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center years. Includes 1 compost
This full day workshop provided by the Xerces Society will focus on concepts around protecting test in lieu of two soil
and enhancing populations of pollinators and beneficial insects in agricultural landscapes. Topics tests.
include principles of pollinator biology and integrated crop pollination, the economics of insect
pollination, basic field identification and evaluating pollinator and beneficial insect habitat, land
management practices for pollinator protection, pollinator habitat restoration, and selection
of plants for pollinator enhancement sites. Presentations from farmers actively implementing
pollinator habitat restoration on their farms will be included.
To register for this workshop, please visit our website - www.piercecd.org/calendar.aspx
or call Alison Nichols at 253-845-9770 x 132
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ON THE FARM
ARE YOU A
POLLINATOR
PAL?
Join us and the Xerces
Society on November 19th
for a pollinator workshop
and learn how you can
become a Pollinator Pal by
restoring pollinator habitat
on your own property.
At least 600 species of native bees in pollinator and beneficial insect habitat resources and organized them into a
Washington contribute to the important on their lands. Farm Toolkit and Home and Citizen
work of pollinating favorite local crops Science Toolkit format. You’ll find all
like squashes, cucumbers, berries and 1. Sign up for our full day pollinator you need to design a land or farmscape
apples. Three-quarters of all flowering workshop with Xerces Society on for pollinators, source your planting
plants and roughly 35% of food crops November 19th in Puyallup! The material, prepare your site and install
depend on pollinators to reproduce! workshop will focus on concepts around your planting successfully.
The abundance and diversity of native protecting and enhancing populations
bees and other pollinators on farms, of pollinators and beneficial insects 3. Ask us about several new cost share
and their contribution to pollination in agricultural landscapes. Topics opportunities available through PCD
and crop productivity are enhanced include principles of pollinator biology to fund your pollinator habitat planting!
when basic habitat needs are met and integrated crop pollination, the Our farm planning staff can assist with
including nesting and overwintering economics of insect pollination, basic the planning and connect you with funds
sites and flowers on which to forage. field identification and evaluating that cover 50-100% of installation costs.
Xerces Society is an invertebrate pollinator and beneficial insect Several Pierce County farmers will be
conservation group that estimates 40% habitat, land management practices installing pollinator hedgerows this fall
of invertebrate pollinator species may for pollinator protection, pollinator with PCD cost share dollars, and we
be facing extinction, native bees in habitat restoration, and selection of hope many more can take advantage of
particular. And yet they are optimistic plants for pollinator enhancement this funding opportunity!
about the potential of land managers sites. Presentations from farmers
to effectively address the decline actively implementing pollinator habitat 4. Pre-order pollinator plants for your
through habitat creation and strategic restoration on their farms will be new habitat planting from PCD’s annual
management choices. PCD has a included. native plant sale! Orders will open
number of new resources and upcoming November 1st for plant pickup in March
events for landowners interested 2. We have a new Pollinator Pal Toolkit 2020. Our knowledgeable plant sale
in joining the growing pollinator page on our website! We put together staff can help you put together the
conservation movement and boosting shortlists of our favorite pollinator perfect pollinator habitat plant palette.
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WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
HABITAT STEWARDSHIP HAPPENINGS
GREEN CITY EVENTS HAPPENING THIS FALL ADRIANA HESS WETLAND WORK PARTIES
With the hot summer nights turning to rainy fall October 5th, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00pm
days it is time to get out into nature and plant native Planting Event!
vegetation along our city streams. This Fall we will be
very busy, hosting 10 plantings across our cities. Come join the Adriana Hess habitat stewards to
maintain the beautiful habitat space of the Tahoma
• GTD - October 12th, 2019 – All across Tacoma Audubon Society. Work parties are held every other
- More info to come month at Adriana Hess Wetland Park.
• GPD – November 2nd, 2019 – All across Puyallup
- Our goal is to plant 300 trees over 3 sites If you are interested in attending an Adriana Hess
in the Clarks Creek basin work party, please contact Belinda at
belindap@piercecd.org
RSVP with Melissa at MelissaB@piercecd.org to get
signed up at one of the sites.
THELMA GILMUR PARK WORK PARTIES WHITTIER PARK WORK PARTY
September 2nd, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00pm Saturday, October 19th, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00pm
October 7th, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00 Planting Event! Planting Event!
November 4th, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00pm
Join the Whittier Park Habitat Stewardship Group in
Help restore the only wetland park in Fircrest with Fircrest as they work hard to transform the neglected
the Gilmur Grubbers (self-named) and connect with trail system into a functional ecosystem. As invasive
other local people in your community. Tasks include species are removed, natives are brought in and cared
maintaining installed natives and continuing to grub for through establishment. Be a part of this important
out invasive species. Work parties are held monthly at project! Work parties are held quarterly at Whittier
Thelma Gilmur Park. Park.
If you are interested in attending a Gilmur Grubbers If you are interested in attending a Whittier Park work
work party, please contact Belinda at party, please contact Caleb at calebm@piercecd.org
belindap@piercecd.org
MEEKER CREEK WORK PARTIES SILVER CREEK WORK PARTY
September 14th, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00pm November 2nd, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00pm
October 12th, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00pm Green Puyallup Day!
November 2nd, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00pm Green
Puyallup Day! Spend half a day enjoying nature right in your own
back yard. Work parties are held quarterly at Silver
The Meeker Minions Habitat Stewards continue to work Creek.
hard at maintaining and restoring the new beautiful
habitat at our Meeker Creek Restoration Site. The (self- If you are interested in attending a Silver Creek work
named) Minions hold work parties the 2nd Saturday of party, please contact Caleb at calebm@piercecd.org
every month from 9am to 12pm. Come lend a hand and
learn how rewarding it is to be a Habitat Steward!
If you are interested in attending a Meeker Minions work
party, please contact Caleb at calebm@piercecd.org
9 THE TAHOMA VIEW |FALL 2019WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Meeker Creek before Meeker Creek After
The Meeker Creek Restoration site has come a long way since a 1,000 foot stretch was taken from its ditch form
in 2015, and remeandered to its natural form we see today. Many volunteers have spent countless hours planting
thousands of trees and shrubs that have had an immediate positive impact on the water quality and critters that live
in Meeker Creek and the greater Clark’s Creek watershed.
HOPS FOR TREE TOPS OUR URBAN TREE SALE IS BACK!
September 7th, 2019 – 2:00pm Are you interested in sprucing up your home
Join the Green Tacoma Partnership for an urban tree with a few new trees? Our Urban Tree Sale
tour featuring some of Tacoma’s excellent breweries. supplies affordable trees that help to clean our
air and water, make our streets more walkable,
Hops for Treetops combines a love of trees with a love and our neighborhoods and watersheds
for Tacoma’s homegrown ales, pilsners and lagers – all healthier. This program also provides the
in support of the Green Tacoma Partnership’s goal education and support necessary to keep your
to connect people with nature. The tour will be led tree happy and healthy in their new urban
by local experts in urban forestry to share with you home.
the diversity of Tacoma’s urban tree canopy and the
benefits it provides people. Brewery stops will include If you live in Puyallup, Tacoma or
Tacoma Brewing Company, Dystopian State Brewing, unincorporated Pierce County, purchase your
and Odd Otter Brewing Company. trees and register for one of our free workshops
while you still can!
Participants must be 21 years of age to participate
in this event. This is a walking tour – dress for the To learn more, visit tinyurl.com/urbantreesale
weather. If you have any questions,
contact Melissa at MelissaB@piercecd.org
RSVP with Melissa at MelissaB@piercecd.org
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Stream Team had a great
summer conducting
macroinvertebrate sampling!
Pictured here are Trish
Willebrand and Cindy Hackett
collecting macroinvertebrates
in Rocky Creek on the Key
Peninsula.
STREAM TEAM is a volunteer water quality STREAM TEAM TRAINING
monitoring program operating in Pierce County since October 19th, 2019 - 9:00am – 12:00pm
1994. Monitors measure pH, dissolved oxygen, nitrates,
turbidity, water temperature, flow and record habitat Looking for an opportunity to engage in your local
observations on prioritized sites. watershed? Want to participate in citizen science?
Or simply want to spend time outdoors? Stream Team
Goals include: might be for you!
• Watershed education
• Involve the community in citizen science monitoring Stream Team monitors play a key role in stream
• Increase available water quality data stewardship by raising awareness of pollution
• Identify areas of concern problems and providing water quality data the
community can use to protect local streams.
2018 Stream Team Reports can be found here:
https://piercecd.org/248/Stream-Monitoring Contact Belinda to sign up for the training at
belindap@piercecd.org
If you are interested in joining Stream Team to make
a difference in your local watershed, contact Belinda
at belindap@piercecd.org
11 THE TAHOMA VIEW |FALL 2019LOCAL WATER QUALITY
Featuring creek sites from the Key Peninsula-Gig Harbor-Islands Watershed (KGI). The KGI Watershed drains land
from the Key Peninsula including the major islands of Fox, McNeil and Anderson. It ranges from Burley north down
south to Anderson Island. The watershed also extends west to Vaughn and east to Gig Harbor.
Volunteer Monitor: Kit Ellis
Maloney Lake is located in the KGI watershed. The Lake is located east
of Lombard Dr. NW just outside of Gig Harbor. Though, technically not a
stream, data is collected at the lake outlet that serves as the headwaters
for Artondale Creek.
PIERCE COUNTY
WATERSHEDS
Volunteer Monitors: Cyndy Dillon
Mark Dickson Creek, located in the KGI watershed, flows from its
headwaters in Sylvia Lake approximately 0.5 miles to the confluence with
Ray Nash Creek. The lower reaches support Coho and Chum Salmon.
Volunteer collected data from 2018 - of a lake, flow tends to be slow and months is to plant trees and shrubs
2019 for dissolved oxygen and water shallow lending towards lower dissolved in the riparian zone along creeks if
temperature is shown above. The oxygen and higher water temperatures. vegetation is missing. The riparian zone
dissolved oxygen state standard for The monitor has noted lots of water is the area of land between a creek and
Maloney Lake and Mark Dickson Creek fowl on the lake. Mark Dickson Creek upland areas. It acts as a transition zone
is ≥9.5 mg/l and the water temperature also failed to meet the dissolved oxygen between water loving plants and plants
state standard is ≤16 °C. Maloney Lake and water temperature standards one that prefer dry feet. Installing plants
did not meet both standards from May time each during August-September that tolerate having their roots wet
2018-September 2018. It also failed to 2018, also occurring during the summer year-round can provide more shade for
meet the water temperature standard months. The monitor has observed a creek and lower water temperatures.
in May 2019. These data points occur salmon in the creek. Trees and shrubs also act as filters for
during the summer months when water any pollutants and prevent erosion by
levels are lower, flow is much slower and One possible solution to mitigate holding in streambanks.
air temperature is warmer. Additionally, low dissolved oxygen and high-water
since this data is collected at the outlet temperatures during the summer
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PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
In honor of our 70th Anniversary, we are running
a 70-days of Conservation campaign. In addi-
tion to all of our great planting events and farm
workshops, farmers can join us in our effort to
make our community better by implementing
best practices with support from our Regional
Conservation Partnership Program.
THE REGIONAL CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
(RCPP) COST SHARE
Do you have improvements you’d like implement best practices such as cover Examples of practices that can be funded
to make on your farm in the coming cropping, buffer and pollinator plantings, with our RCPP Cost-share:
next year? Would you like assistance rotational grazing, manure management
in planning those improvements and and much more. PCD staff are available Practice Approx. Payment*
help finding a way to help pay for them? to work one-on-one with you to identify
Pierce Conservation District has a practices to meet your goals for your Hedgerow Planting $4.50 - $9.00/foot
variety of opportunities for farmers and land and submit an application for Irrigation Water Mgt. $970 per year
landowners to support projects which cost-share funding. Applications are Nutrient Mgt. on
improve nutrient management on crops ranked, and funded landowners receive small farms with
and forages, reduce water use through a contract for financial assistance for diversified crops $765 per year
irrigation, and other practices that help the cost of implementing best practices. Conservation Crop
conserve natural resources. RCPP is a voluntary conservation Rotation on small farms
program enabling producers to make with diversified crops $935 per year
One such opportunity is the Regional conservation work for them. Learn Livestock Watering
Conservation Partnership Program more at, www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/ Facility $1 - $32 per gallon
(RCPP) – a partnership between the nrcs/main/national/programs/farmbill/ Brush Management
Natural Resource Conservation Service rcpp/, and contact the PCD farm team for difficult weeds
and PCD. The goal of the RCPP is to if you are interested in pursuing a great along streams $620 per acre
co-invest with landowners seeking to opportunity!
13 THE TAHOMA VIEW | FALL 2019CALENDAR OF EVENTS
For full details on all events, visit our Calendar of Events under the “Get Involved” section of our website.
September 2nd, October 7th, and November 4th - 9:00am – 12:00pm
THELMA GILMUR PARK WORK PARTIES / For more information contact Belinda at BelindaP@piercecd.org
September 7th – 2:00pm
HOPS FOR TREE TOPS / For more information contact Melissa at MelissaB@piercecd.org
September 8th - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
POULTRY PROCESSING – HANDS ON! WORKSHOP
For more information please contact Robin at RBuckingham@piercecd.org
September 12th - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
MUD AND MANURE MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP / For more information please contact Paul at PaulB@piercecd.org
September 14th, October 12th, and November 2nd - 9:00am – 12:00pm
MEEKER CREEK WORK PARTIES / For more information contact Caleb at CalebM@piercecd.org
September 18th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
EDIBLE GARDEN WORKSHOP SERIES: FRUITS, NUTS, & BERRIES
For more information contact Kay at KaliciaB@piercecd.org
September 21st, 9:00am – 1:00pm
2019 PIERCE COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDEN TOUR / For more information contact Renee at ReneeM@piercecd.org
October 1st – 5:00pm - 7:30pm (4:00pm - 6:30pm if outside
FORAGE ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT / For more information please contact Robin at RBuckingham@piercecd.org
October 5th - 9:00am – 12:00pm
ADRIANA HESS WETLAND PLANTING EVENT! / For more information contact Belinda at BelindaP@piercecd.org
October 12th – Times and Locations Vary
GREEN TACOMA DAY / For more information contact Melissa at MelissaB@piercecd.org
October 12th – 9:00am – 12:00pm
SOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK PLANTING EVENT / For more information contact Jayme at JaymeG@Piercecd.org
October 19th - 9:00am – 12:00pm
WHITTIER PARK WORK PARTY / For more information contact Caleb at CalebM@piercecd.org
October 19th – 9:00am – 12:00pm
ORCA RECOVERY DAY
For more information contact Camila at CamilaM@piercecd.org
October 19th – 9:00am – 12:00pm
STREAM TEAM TRAINING / For more information contact Belinda at BelindaP@piercecd.org
November 1st
NATIVE PLANT SALE PRE-ORDERS OPEN!
To order your plants visit PierceNativePlantSale.com or contact Chris for more info at ChrisM@piercecd.org
November 2nd – 9:00am – 12:00pm
GREEN PUYALLUP DAY! / For more info contact Caleb at CalebM@piercecd.org
November 19th – 9:00am – 3:00pm
POLLINATOR CONSERVATION IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES SHORT COURSE
Contact Ali at AlisonN@piercecd.org
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(Continued from front cover) The Shore Friendly Pierce program is designed
to provide marine shoreline landowners with technical assistance on Join us on October 19th for
a spectrum of natural resource concerns, from using native plants for
Orca Recovery Day,
erosion control, to healthy tree pruning to provide view corridors.
Ultimately, the goal of the Shore Friendly program is to utilize soft shore a statewide event to restore
techniques in lieu of hard armored bulkheads in an effort to return natural
process to the nearshore environment, aid in salmon and orca recovery critical habitat for our endangered
efforts, and improve landowners’ enjoyment of their shorelines. Southern Resident Orca Whales.
Interested in learning more about Shore Friendly Pierce? Would you like
to request a shoreline site visit? Contact our new Shorelines Program
Manager, Mary Krauszer, at maryk@piercecd.org or (253) 845-9770 ext. 113
PIERCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT
CONSERVING PIERCE COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCES SINCE 1949You can also read
