WEST SEATTLE WEEKEND SCENE: Duwamish Alive! brings hundreds of helping hands to Seattle’s only river

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Right now from Seattle to Tukwila and beyond, hundreds of people are working on and near the Duwamish River and its watershed as part of the return of the one-day mega-work party Duwamish Alive! Above and below are photos from the kickoff ceremony at həʔapus Village Park & Shoreline Habitat in West Seattle; before getting going on their projects, volunteers heard from speakers including Mayor Bruce Harrell:

The sites and organizations who are participating today, according to the Duwamish Alive! Coalition:

Pigeon Point, West Seattle with Delridge Neighborhood Development Association
Heron’s Nest, West Seattle with Shared Spaces Foundation
həʔapus Village Park & Shoreline Habitat, West Seattle with Duwamish River Community Coalition, DIRT Corps, Port of Seattle
North Wind’s Weir, Tukwila with King County Dept Natural Lands & Water
Riverview Park, Kent with Green River Coalition and Kent Parks
Fenster Nature Park, Auburn with Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group
Duwamish Hill Preserve, Tukwila with Tukwila Parks, Forterra & Friends of the Hill
Duwamish River Kayak Cleanup, West Seattle with Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
Delridge Wetlands, West Seattle with DNDA
Duwamish Longhouse, West Seattle with the Duwamish Tribe
Herring’s House Park, West Seattle with Seattle Parks
Cecil Moses Park, Tukwila with King County Parks

If you’re volunteering at one of today’s sites, send a pic so we can add!

Jesee J. April 17, 2022 (8:18 am)

You fail to mention that this is a King County Parks site and that King County Parks helped put on this event with their wonderful Archeologist, Volunteer program and Parks Maintenance staff. They have spent years on this site with many volunteer groups to help restore the site, clean up drug and homeless encampments and help the area to be safer and a good starting or end point for people to enjoy the trail. The tribes involvement is great to help restore and improve the river after many decades of poisoning of the waterway. And it is great to inform the public of the great history of the region and the tribes native lands. Thank you to all.

WSB April 17, 2022 (1:45 pm)

Hi, what we quoted above is from the Duwamish Alive! coalition. The park is a Port of Seattle park, but that’s great if KC Parks volunteers are working there too – we’ve covered many events there (as well as KC Parks’ events in unincorporated North Highline, via our smaller site WCN) over the years. – TR

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