WNPS Webinar: Getting Native Plants into the Ground

2309 Meridian Street, Bellingham WA

19 January, 2022

Description

The Koma Kulshan Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society regularly holds educational seminars--free and open to the public! We are currently holding our monthly meetings online. Please follow the link below to register for this event. Getting Native Plants into the Ground: Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Habitat Restoration Projects in Whatcom County Date: January 19, 2022 Time: 7-9 pm Current methods related to planting native plants and habitat restoration in Whatcom County will be presented. Case studies, best management practices, education methods, and lessons learned will feature riparian restoration sites in Whatcom County and urban public sites in Bellingham’s Happy Valley neighborhood. Bring your native plant restoration questions or observations you’d like to share! Our first speaker has been Project Manager for the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA) for over 25 years. He leads NSEA’s instream and riparian restoration projects with designs, permits, and implementations. He coordinates NSEA’s native plant nursery, restoration crews, project funding, as well as federal, state, county, and landowner partnerships. Our second speaker, retired environmental planner, educator, and NSEA Executive Director, has been dedicated to the use of environmental education as a tool to address development, restoration, and sustainability issues relating to watershed health since 1977. She was a co-author on the curriculum guide Celebrating Wildflowers: An educator’s guide to the appreciation and conservation of native plants of Washington, which was a collaboration between WNPS and North Cascades Institute. To register for this webinar, visit our website (registration links are posted under each event listing): PLEASE NOTE: The event will be recorded, including the Question and Answer session. Registrants acknowledge their name may be a part of this recording if they participate in the Q&A session. Registrants under the age of 18 may only attend with permission from a parent or guardian.