A Celebration of Longfellow Creek

Description

Once a mighty salmon spawning stream known by Coast Salish People of the region as t?awi, Longfellow Creek has a storied past. The people and this creek have been in a close relationship for many thousands of years, from when salmon first chose to make their home here, through intense urbanization in the late 19th and 20th centuries, to today – where this creek and its people are beginning to tell a renewed story – one of hope.

Join SWSHS, Duwamish Alive Coalition and Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association for a celebration of this historic creek. The event will bring together researchers, advocates, and educators to discuss the history of the creek, how communities around the creek are engaged in its care taking, unpack new, ground-breaking research on tire dust toxins and its impacts on local coho population, and share how you can get involved in urban natural environments in your own neighborhoods.

Participants include:

• Caroline Borsenik, Director of Environmental Education, Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association
• Ed Kolodziej, Researcher, Center for Urban Waters, University of Washington
• Katherine Lynch, Urban Creeks Biologist, Seattle Public Utilities
• Kelly Brenner, Naturalist, Author, The Naturalist at Home: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us.
• Tom Reese, journalist, photographer, author Once and Future River: Reclaiming the Duwamish

Community Booths from Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, Beaver Insights, West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails Group, DNDA, SWSHS and more.