2025 Youth Art Contest Winners & People’s Choice
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Thank you to everyone who submitted a masterpiece to the 8th Annual Youth Art Contest for the theme “Native Flowers!”
Read MoreClimate Resilience Riparian Restoration Recording
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In December 2024, Snohomish Conservation District partnered with Puget Sound Conservation Districts, Department of Ecology, Conservation Commission, and Bonneville Environmental Foundation to host a workshop focused on restoration practices that encourage a more resilient ecosystem in the face of a changing climate.
Read MoreSnohomish Conservation District, City of Marysville team up to plant trees
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October was Urban and Community Forest Month! To celebrate, Snohomish Conservation District and the City of Marysville hosted a tree-planting ceremony at Comeford Park on Tuesday, Oct. 29.
Read MoreBeavers: Our Backyard Neighbors
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Beavers can construct dams that can flood yards and homes, block culverts, and damage trees as they forage for food and building supplies. Yet despite these challenges, there are many ways for property owners to peacefully coexist with beavers and benefit from their presence.
Read MoreYouth Education at Camano Island State Park
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This summer, Snohomish Conservation District’s Science Station returned to Camano Island! With help from Washington State Parks, we were able to move our Conservation Station from its old home by the gas pump at Cama Beach to the serene shores of Camano Island State Park.
Read MoreConservation on Camano Island
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This is the trip you’ve been waiting for all year: soaking up the sun at Cama Beach on Camano Island. Harbor seals peer at you from between the waves, crabs scuttle along the rocks next to your towel, and a bald eagle soars overhead.
Read MoreManaging Manure in New Ways
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Manure is a constant presence on farms with livestock. Appropriate storage and management of manure allows it to retain the nutrients that make it such an excellent soil amendment. Proper storage also minimizes the risk that those nutrients will end up polluting our local streams, lakes, or well water.
Read MoreUnraveling Knotweed in the Lower Skykomish
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Highway 2 follows the braids and bends of one of Washington’s most scenic rivers, the Skykomish. This river isn’t just beautiful, the Lower Skykomish River Reach contains some of the best habitat in the Snohomish River Basin for Chinook and other salmonids.
Read MoreChipping In for Healthy Air
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Our region is facing increasingly dry and hot summers. While the warm weather is often a welcome break from the rain, it also increases wildfire risk, especially for communities in urban-wildland interface areas.
Read MoreWorking Together for Clean Water in Edmonds
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Keeping stormwater clean in urban spaces isn’t easy. When rain hits the ground and travels across surfaces like streets and parking lots, it picks up pollutants along the way before heading down a storm drain and into our waterways. But there are nature-based solutions, commonly referred to as Green Stormwater Infrastructure, that collect, slow, and filter stormwater.
Read MoreEnlisting Insects for Soil Health
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I’ve always struggled to love insects. And I’ll admit, I am judging a book by its cover: their shiny carapaces, their eerie antennae, and their chaotic movements all give me a case of the heebie jeebies. Yet, after reading Farming with Soil Life: A Handbook for Supporting Soil Invertebrates and Soil Health on Farms, I’m finding a new appreciation for these creepy crawlies (and other soil life too!)
Read More2024 Youth Art Contest Winners & People's Choice
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Thank you to everyone who submitted a masterpiece to this year’s Art Contest! We were amazed to see all of your creative demonstrations of amphibians.
Read MoreGet Grounded: Dig into the Life of Soil
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Soil is teeming with life. With advances in technology, we, the ever-curious above-ground experimenters, are slowly unearthing how these various tiny creatures interact with each other and their environment. Learning how to manage this complex soil ecosystem can feel daunting, especially in the face of environmental extremes and changes, but many people are having success by focusing on soil health.
Read MorePreparing Horse Properties for Winter
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You can count on Pacific Northwest winters being cold, wet, dark, and windy. During many winters you can add snowy and icy to that description. For horse owners this usually means struggles such as slogging through mud to do chores with less time to ride or exercise horses. As it is with most everything, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Read More2023 I Love Lake Day & Cascade Award Winner
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We celebrated I Love Lake" Day with the City of Lake Stevens at Lundeen Park this past weekend!
Read MoreTrack Paddock Highlight with Sarah and Jeremy Vecchi
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Track paddocks are an excellent way to keep your horses moving and interested when they aren’t on pasture. Track paddocks can also help protect water quality by avoiding overgrazing and compaction of your pastures that may become vulnerable to mud and runoff during the wet season.
Read MoreSave the Date: Lake Tye Science Day
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Join us for science demonstrations, hands-on activities, and games about the many wonderful ways we can protect our streams, lakes, and salmon! Light snacks will be provided so you can refuel between activities.
People of all ages are invited to attend, but the event will be most exciting to families with children in kindergarten through 5th grade. Bathrooms will be available! Park near the playground and tennis courts.
Read MoreIncreasing Food Security, One Garden Bed at a Time
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As our Lawns to Lettuce team knows, some spaces–like a sunny lawn–are brimming with potential for an edible landscape. Other areas, however, need a bit of creativity to envision the possibilities. Luckily, our team has the imagination and technical skill needed to transform any space into a multi-purpose, edible wonderland.
Read MoreThe Value of Manure
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Sarah and Jeremy Vecchi worked with Snohomish Conservation District to implement a manure management system that protects water quality and transforms their horse manure into a valuable asset: compost!
Read MoreThe Coexistence of Farms, Fish, and Flooding
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The Sustainable Lands Strategy (SLS) coalition initially convened in 2010 to unite individuals and community organizations dedicated to improving the coexistence of farming and fishing in Snohomish County’s floodplain areas. Snohomish Conservation District has been involved in this collaboration since the start.
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