South Woods Preservation Group 

The South Woods is sixteen acres of mature lowland forest rarely found in an urban setting.  It is located in Shoreline at 150th street and 25th avenue, adjacent to Shorecrest high school.  The goal of South Woods Preservation Group (SWPG) is to create a park restored  to an approximation of its original state.  It will consist of trails open to the public as well as a unique partnership with schools to be used for environmental education.

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What you can do to help (checklist)

Aerial map (south woods in center)

Overview                         South Woods Official Shoreline Park!

Text Box: Leadership              

Ecology

Keep it Green, Keep it Clean; This is your heritage!

 

Geology and Soil

From The Woods

History

Ivy-Outs Saturday April 17, 24 (earth day) and May 15  2010 10-2

Birds of South Woods

Ivy-Out Photos

Links to related sites

Environmental Education

Photo Gallery

More photos

South Woods in Snow

Bond Activity Photos

Walk in the woods - an essay

Letters to the Editor               

photos by Vicki Westberg

                                                     

 

 

 

Links

 

 

                                                         

Text Box: Coordinating Group Brian Bodenbach, Mamie Bolender, Charlie Brown, Bettelinn Brown, Terry Clayton,  Gordie Swartzman, Richard Tinsley, La Nita Wacker, Janet Way, Vicki Westberg  

                                                     

 

 

 

Text Box: Land Ethic The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. This sounds simple: do we not already sing our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Yes, but just what and whom do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we are sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly not the waters, which we assume have no function except to turn turbines, float barges, and carry off sewage. Certainly not the plants, of which we exterminate whole communities without batting an eye. Certainly not the animals, of which we have already extirpated many of the largest and most beautiful species. A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these 'resources,' but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a natural state. Leopold, Aldo: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There, 1948, Oxford University Press, New York, 1987, pg. 204.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                   

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