Environmental Engineering Reference
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FIGURE 24.3.
University of Washington Restoration Ecology Network capstone students
remove Scotch broom (
Cytisus scoparius
) at Saltwater Park, Shoreline, Washington, USA.
Part of the Capstone class requires working with volunteers and participating in
the political framework that supports restoration. The city of Shoreline had been in-
corporated for more than a decade when the Saltwater Park project began, and it
wanted to develop a system of “friends” groups to encourage volunteer participation in
the maintenance of restoration projects. Students attended community meetings to
encourage volunteering at the park, and they also recruited at local schools and
churches. They presented progress reports to the planning commission and the city
council.
The installation was accomplished over a period of six weeks. There were a num-
ber of working days, mostly on weekends. Large work parties with thirty to forty volun-
teers (mostly from a neighborhood church) took place on two weekends. Donations of
food and coffee were obtained from Seattle grocery and coffee chains.
