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2011 Spring | Education & Outreach, Natural Science & Restoration

Invasive Plant Restoration and Environmental Education Awareness in Lincoln Park

Student(s):

Mary Durham

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Sharon Baker

Partner(s):

  • Friends of Lincoln Park

Faculty advisor(s):

Tom Hinckley, School of Forest Resources, University of Washington

For my project, I worked collaboratively with a fellow student, Christina Welton, for Friends of Lincoln Park in West Seattle, learning about native and invasive plants and getting my hands dirty doing restoration work in the park’s eighty acres of forest. I worked to remove Himalayan blackberry, ivy, holly, and other invasive species. I planted native species—western red cedar, snowberry, oceanspray, red-osier dogwood, ninebark—both seedlings and live stakes. Also, I conducted scholarly research on invasive species and on environmental education in order to create pamphlets for park users; the pamphlets raise awareness about the problems facing Seattle’s forests.