Fwd: Your Lands Council Program Update 🌲

[Philip Small]

Planting legacy trees is a neat idea. What should we plant at Polly Judd Park? 

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From: "The Lands Council" <t...@landscouncil.org>
Date: May 19, 2017 9:00 AM
Subject: Your Lands Council Program Update 🌲
To: "Philip" <philip...@landprofile.com>
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The Lands Council: May Program Updates View this email in your browser You have the opportunity to create a living legacy by planting a Legacy Memorial Tree with The Lands Council.   This year, The Lands Council will be honoring and memorializing our supporters loved ones by planting Legacy Trees at the Finch Arboretum - where they will stand as a silent sentinel and honorable monuments for decades to come.  Donors are welcome to adorn the branches with hand written messages, photos, or planted with ashes or messages on biodegradable paper. Each Legacy Tree will have a permanent tree tag with your message inscribed. In addition, your name, or the name of the commemorated, will be carved in the Tree of Life sculpture, at the top of the stairs to the City Council Chambers.  Create a Living Legacy Today Whitebark Pine (WBP) is a high elevation, shade-intolerant species and its nutritious seed cones are an important food source for Clark’s nutcrackers, red squirrels, grizzly and black bears, and other species. There is a unique population of WBP trees on Copper Butte that is resistant to blister rust fungus - which has killed entire populations of WBP in the Rocky Mountains. Due to natural wildfire exclusion, WBP is being overtopped by competing tree species and its population is declining.  To allow existing populations of WBP to survive, we are sending volunteers to thin sub-alpine fir and other competing species from the area. Volunteers will get to enjoy camping and hiking at the third highest peak in the Colville National Forest. Volunteers can earn service hours, learn about plant restoration, and experience the opportunity to assist the U.S. Forest Service, The Lands Council, and Kettle Range Conservation Group. This is an important volunteer opportunity that will preserve the endangered whitebark pine, support animal species that depend on WBP trees, and defend against climate change. For more information, contact Katie at kwis...@landscouncil.org or (509) 209-2852. Learn More Help water, maintain, and care for trees and contribute to The Lands Council’s restoration work in Spokane! We have several restoration sites planted to help keep the Spokane River clean of contaminants that pollute our drinking water and to contribute to habitat restoration. With your help, the trees can thrive and continue this restoration work for years to come. This volunteer opportunity is happening every week in the morning or evening - and the hours are flexible. For more information, contact Katie at kwis...@landscouncil.org or (509) 209-2852. Sign Up! SAVE THE DATE: SUMMER FLOAT TRIPS The river is flowing, the sun is shining, and we know you're ready to get outdoors. Stay tuned for news on our annual summer float trips.  FIRST FRIDAY OPEN HOUSE Join us at The Lands Council for a First Friday Open House, Friday July 7th from 5:00 – 8:00 pm at our offices (25 West Main Avenue). Meet the staff and board members that make up The Lands Council and learn more about our programs and our work. FIFTH ANNUAL OLD GROWTH HIKE ON MT. SPOKANE  Join us on July 15th for a six mile round trip walk to the Old Growth Forest of Mt. Spokane. It will be a fun and cool way to spend a Saturday looking for wildlife and seeing beautiful mountain streams and old growth forest in the largest state park in Washington State. Copyright © 2017 The Lands Council, All rights reserved. TLC e-alert sign up Our mailing address is: The Lands Council 25 W. Main st Spokane, WA 99201 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

[Robynn Sleep]

Love, love, love this idea. Our old friends Pinus Ponderosa and Doug fir are absolutely known to be native to the neighborhood. Phil, do you have the site index, ecosystem and soil data for the PJ site? That happens to be a component of my current mapping project, my maps cover the entire county so I could get that easily. Do we want food-producing trees? PP has pine nuts and local tribes used the needles for tea. But they cut down the tree to harvest their foodstuff. Along this legacy tree line, I had thought of our garden as a site for Susie's Forest tree program. I have also thought about engaging our neighborhood schools (Roosevelt and LC) in tree-planting and other environmental activities in the neighborhood. (Graduating class plants a tree? Kindergarden class plants a tree, monitors it every year, brings all their parents to the park to see it?) I am all over this idea!

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