Kitsap County residents have long struggled with the dichotomy of living in a rural setting while at the same time having very few opportunities to enjoy the outdoors on trails. Kitsap County is attempting to fix this situation with a planning effort that will connect trails from one end of the county to the other. [...]
Partnership for Rural King County (PRKC) and Stewardship in Action (SiA) are approaching completion of the Patterson/Raging Focused Stewardship project. Below is a “clickable/zoomable” map that lists the status of each land parcel, as of August 27, 2011. A lot of farms and forests have benefited from planting, restoration and other productive land practices AND [...]
In recent months, forest biomass (wood burning) power plants have received positive press for their ability to turn waste wood into electic power. However, there’s an on-going debate in the power/environmental community relative to the carbon footprint of conventional biomass power. Power plant proponents claim that these plants release no more carbon than a healthy [...]
Partnership for Rural King County (PRKC at prkc.org), working with EPA and King County, is wrapping-up a two year effort to reach rural landowners who are interested in pursuing stewardship projects on their lands. The project has provided technical assistance to help complete stewardship plans as well as provided cost sharing for completing stewardship projects. [...]
Partnership for Rural King County (PRKC) is completing a joint venture with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and King County to connect rural landowners in two rural watersheds (map below) with stewardship advice and funding sources to complete needed stewardship projects on their land. Over one thousand landowners in the two basins have been contacted, [...]
The Stanford University Public Policy and International Studies Programs just published a study that rates the relative fiscal health of national economies around the world. How did the U. S. rate? According to the Sovereign Fiscal Responsibility Index (SFRI), the United States ranks 28th out of the 34 countries studied.
Most of us Nor’westerners can agree that we need to provide for urban growth (that is, when growth returns) and, at the same time, we want to maintain clean water, forests and farm land. Skagit Valley residents, in Northwest Washington State are grappling with controlling urban sprawl on the fertile farmlands of the Skagit delta. [...]
State agencies and the Washington Legislature are beginning to hear the publics’ message: The Departments of Parks, Fish and Wildlife, and Natural Resources have agreed on a “one-pass-for-all” approach to providing access to state lands and facilities during difficult budget times. Programs in education, health care, social services and criminal justice are (rightly) at the [...]
An earlier post discussed the issue of recovering CO2 from forest biomass energy generation by inserting an algal synthesis process to capture CO2. The recent conference provides a “lay of the land” and specifically mentions forest residues. Here’s an excerpt of a report from Biomass Digest: In California, the Pacific West Biomass Conference opened with [...]
Perfect time for planting, and the plants are FREE: Ueland Tree Farm and Kitsap County Master Gardeners are joining together to provide a free public native plant salvage on the weekend of February 19-20th from 9 AM to 4 PM each day. Trees and shrubs can be salvaged in an area where a tree harvest [...]
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