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Thursday, September 22, 2011

4th Annual Green Tacoma Day

Discover Tacoma’s Natural Treasures at the 4th annual Green Tacoma Day to be held on September 24th in conjunction with National Public Lands Day.:
  • Join thousands of other Americans across the country celebrating National Public Lands Day.
  • Help protect and restore your favorite local park, gulch, and shoreline.
  • Learn more about your favorite recreation destination from experienced Habitat Stewards.
Green Tacoma Day continues to grow each year! This year is seeing some exciting changes. Help the park you use the most with invasive plant removal, garbage removal, education, or planting.  Some of the 14 participating sites are listed below, for a completed list click here:
  • Point Defiance Park
  • Franklin Park
  • Titlow Park
  • Swan Creek Park
  • Oak Tree Park
  • McKinley Park
  • Tacoma Nature Center
  • Julias Gulch
  • TCC
  • Pacific Lutheran University

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Community Garden Tour - Tacoma **UPDATED

August 13th from 10-1pm, meet up at one of our Community Gardens / Green Spaces in Tacoma.  Learn about the many projects happening in Tacoma and how to help make your city more livable.  After the meet and greet, you have the opportunity to choose a bicycle route to tour more sites that are helping make Tacoma green.  We will end the event at a lunch spot to debrief.

This event has been *CHANGED* and combined with another garden tour:
On September 10th, the garden tour in Tacoma to be combined with the Harvest Tour and Festival.  This will be a celebration of community collaboration and gardening. Attendees will still get a tour of urban gardens in Tacoma, many of them that CLC helps to operate.

Please Pre-Register so the event will NOT be cancelled!
Click here for more details.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Hiking at Gold Creek

On August 8th, at 10am, experience a FREE guided hike through Gold Creek off the I-90.  Learn about the conservation work happening along I-90, and enjoy the scenery.  This is also a chance to learn about becoming a land steward. 

Click here for more details and to reserve your spot.