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Newsletter of Stewardship Partners
Spring 2013
Feast on the Farm a Great Way to Support Stewardship Partners!
Experience the farm to table phenomenon up close and personal at Feast on the Farm on July 25th!
Together with Oxbow Farm, the Salmon-Safe eco-label, Secret Garden Foundation, and celebrity chef Brendan McGill
of Hitchcock, we’re dishing up an extraordinary summer evening in Carnation of fabulous food and wine, farm tours,
a mini auction and live music by a top secret local performer. See for yourself how local farmers are growing healthy food
and embracing environmental stewardship. Just 125 guests will be able to buy tickets ($150 and $250) which go on sale in
May. Proceeds will support our continuing restoration of the Snoqualmie watershed. Keep your eyes peeled for email updates!
For information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact [email protected]. Our sincere
thanks to these generous sponsors:
GiveBIG Campaign is May 15th
The Seattle Foundation is hosting its annual one-day, online charitable giving event on May 15th. GiveBIG was created to inspire
people to give generously to nonprofit organizations who make our area a stronger, more vibrant community. We hope you’ll
take this opportunity to support Stewardship Partners with a contribution through Seattle Foundation’s website. Look for email
updates in the coming weeks.
Help Duke’s Help Us!
Mark your calendars for May 22nd, Duke’s Sustainable Salmon
Day, and make a date with your friends and family to meet at your
local Duke’s Chowder House to support Stewardship Partners.
Duke’s has generously agreed to donate the increase in sales that
we generate at lunch and dinner that day to support our salmon
restoration programs. Duke’s serves only 100% sustainable, traceable
seafood, as well as a wonderful variety of grass-fed, hormone-free
burgers and steaks, natural chicken, and salads made with local
available ingredients. It couldn’t be easier to support us; just show
up on May 22nd and dig in!
Alki – 2516 Alki Ave SW
Green Lake – 7850 Green Lake Dr N
Kent Station – 240 W Kent Station St
Lake Union – 901 Fairview Ave N
Southcenter – 757 Southcenter Mall
Tacoma - 3327 Ruston Way
Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve
the natural landscapes of Washington State.
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Salmon-Safe Urban Initiative
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Spring 2013 promises to be an exciting time for the Salmon-
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stretch of Cedar Mill Creek on campus. Nike’s site operations
team will join Salmon-Safe in describing how this restoration
was implemented and how they are considering watershed
impacts for site expansion and operational management
at their headquarters site. Nike leadership will also share
how this certification adds value to their corporation’s triple
bottom line.
Safe Urban Initiative as we launch the Puget Sound Campaign.
Our residential, urban and campus certification program has
been growing steadily in recent years and is becoming a more
and more important land planning tool and eco label for
urban watershed land owners. With generous support we are
creating momentum in Puget Sound through a rigorous urban
initiative. Our goal between now and 2016 is to increase
Salmon-Safe certified properties by another 30,000 acres
in and around Puget Sound. This initiative would include
adding 7 more corporate and education campuses; 300 units
of housing; 3 (18) hole golf courses, 2 public parks systems, 3
resort or camp retreat centers, 30 additional farms and at least
5 large-scale construction firms.
Our inclusion in the conference is an important step forward
in elevating our work. Like the Living Building Challenge for
which the unConference was formed, Salmon-Safe is focused
on the importance of measuring performance at a site and
gaging its role in the larger bio-region. More importantly,
serving as a resource for long term site planning and land
management differentiates us from other certifications based
on point systems and building materials.
This work is underway with new properties becoming certified
in Seattle’s 2030 District and certification renewal of a
number of Seattle area properties including the Department
of Ecology Headquarters, Port of Seattle Parks, and the UW
Bothell Campus. Through this process we are also revamping
our approach to working with high performance buildings
that aim at achieving dual certification with LEED.
To learn more about the conference visit:
http://living-future.org/unconference2013
Stay tuned for our fall event, Salmon-in-the-City, which will
feature the newest research from NOAA and other regional
leaders.
Part of our outreach strategy is to educate key decision makers
and designers who influence development and construction. In
May we will be making two presentations at the International
Living Future Institute’s unConference and its associated preconference session, The Government Confluence, co-hosted
by King County GreenTools and Cascadia Green Building
Council.
On May 15th, Salmon-Safe will be joined at the Government
Confluence by representatives from the City of Portland’s
Parks Department to discuss our decade-long collaboration
implementing arduous habitat and stormwater strategies,
which have resulted in operational and infrastructure changes
in 250 parks and natural areas, as well as generating a cultural
change within the organization as operations managers and
staff integrate water savings, pest management, and restoration
into their mission. The Portland Parks case study will describe
how this transformation was sparked and the lasting impacts.
More than 240 city parks and natural areas managed by Portland Parks
& Recreation achieved Salmon-Safe re-certification in 2012, including
Cathedral Park (pictured above) on the Willamette River. Portland
Parks first earned system-wide Salmon-Safe certification in 2004.
The 2013 Government Confluence is a one of a kind gathering
of sustainability leaders from the public sector for an intensive
day of inspiration and peer-to-peer learning. Government
staff and elected officials will share success stories and address
persistent challenges faced by local governments in advancing
a sustainability agenda.
Find Us Online!
At the International Living Future Institute’s unConference,
Salmon-Safe will present the case study for certification of Nike’s
iconic World Headquarters Campus. Nike has transformed
its management of the 175-acre site and embarked on an
ambitious restoration strategy for extensive wetlands and a
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A Blossoming Industry
Thanks to a USDA grant, Salmon-Safe and Stewardship Partners
have begun working with the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market
Collective (SWGMC), a group of local cut-flower growers who
have banded together to better market their products. The cut
flower industry currently imports 80% of its flowers, many of
them from places with dubious environmental and social rights
practices. These imported flowers dominate displays at grocery
stores and farmers markets and are priced much lower than
local cut-flower growers could sell for and still make a living.
The SWGMC wanted to further differentiate themselves by
adding a meaningful environmental certification to their local
products. Diane Szukovathy, owner of Jello Mold Farm and the
driving force behind the grant, was already a part of the SalmonSafe program. The rigorous, science-based label was a natural
fit for the cut-flower program, especially with growers based
in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska, prime salmon habitat.
Blooming Hellebores at Jello Mold Farm Agnes P. Cwalina
The Market Collective provides “the very best the Pacific
Northwest has to offer in cut flowers, greens and ornamentals
from sixteen local flower farms.” SWGMC recently hosted
a workshop on sustainable cut-flower practices for all flower
growers regardless of affiliation with the collective. We are
excited to help with marketing, working with local grocery
stores and organizations to integrate cut-flowers into the “buy
local” conversation that consumers in the Northwest are so
aware of. Be sure to keep an eye out for Salmon-Safe bouquets
of gorgeous local cut-flowers this summer at your grocery store!
Spring Brings Renewal
We’ve seen lots of energy and excitement for preserving
salmon habitat over the past six months as we certified or
re-certified 20 farms as Salmon-Safe. We are working with
Chateau Ste. Michelle to highlight their Cold Creek and
Canoe Ridge Estate Salmon-Safe Vineyards. They plan to
launch a national marketing campaign including their SalmonSafe certification in June, so keep an eye out for those wines!
Contact information for Salmon-Safe farms can be found on
our website under “Farms & Maps.”
Salmon-Safe Wines Make a Splash
As part of an ongoing effort to increase visibility for our
partners, we co-hosted a Happy Hour event at Whole Foods
Bellevue on March 6th. L’Ecole 41 came to pour two of their
Salmon-Safe wines and Luminesce and Perigee poured from
their Walla Walla vineyards. It was an excellent turn-out, with
about half of the shoppers that passed by stopping to taste the
wine and snacks, including wild-caught salmon. The event was
part of Stewardship Partners and Salmon-Safe’s exciting ongoing
partnership with Whole Foods, one we hope to expand on. Look
for more Salmon-Safe wine tastings in the coming months.
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certifications &
renewals
Interested in Tasting Salmon-Safe Wine?
Stewardship Partners invites you to participate in a celebration
of Salmon-Safe wine from 2-5pm on Sunday, June 23rd at Wine
World in Wallingford. Join eight wineries, Bluebird Grain, and
Sal the Salmon for a delicious tasting that supports the work of
the Salmon-Safe program. More information can be found on
our website at www.stewardshippartners.org/events/.
Alpenfire Cider
Baxter Barn
Camelot Downs
Chateau Ste. Michelle
Choice Bulbs
Dan’s Dahlias
Everyday Flowers
Fall City Farms
Hedlin Farm
Hollandia Dairy
J4 Ranch
Klesick Family Farm
Martha Lane Lavender
Ojeda Farm
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Orchidaceae
Sanford’s Farm
Sunfield Farm
Terry’s Berries
Triple Wren Farms
Wallace Acres
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The Road to 12,000
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A lot has happened in the 12,000 Rain Gardens Campaign
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and another cluster of residential rain gardens in Kirkland.
Check out our events page for details as they become known,
www.12000raingardens.org/rain-garden-workshops.html.
since our last newsletter. Some of the highlights include a rain
garden tour with high school students, another with Master
Gardeners and government staff from Skagit County, helping
homeowners take advantage of incentive programs to build
their own rain gardens across Seattle, a new website currently in
development, receipt of a major grant from Boeing, and several
rain garden projects initiated by our WSU Extension partners
all around Puget Sound.
One of the great triumphs for the campaign so far has been
to see local governments jump in more and more to the rain
garden game. Both Puyallup and Seattle have made green
street improvements along the very same blocks where we built
some of our first clusters. Seattle, Puyallup, Eatonville, Kitsap
County, King County, Lake Forest Park and Bellingham, have
rolled out their own rain garden programs and the cities of
Shoreline and Tacoma are poised to launch theirs soon.
Our outreach efforts with school groups and educators has
been a definite highlight of the last several months. On March
1st we led a group of 25 9th graders from Chief Sealth High
School on a tour of their neighborhood through the eyes of a
raindrop. We showed them a parking lot paved with porous
asphalt, a neighborhood cluster of rain gardens that we built,
and the Highpoint development that includes rain gardens and
natural stormwater drainage throughout the site (see more about
the tour at www.westseattleblog.com written by rain garden
Champion, Karrie Kohlhaas).
We also trained new troops of volunteer Master Gardeners
as Rain Garden Mentors, most recently in Pierce, King, and
Skagit counties, spoke with students at Garfield High School
and looked for possible rain garden sites at their school, and
led discussions with YMCA Earth Service Corps students from
all around Puget Sound.
Recently we have been sharing the rain garden love with free
evening workshops in South Lake Union, Bellevue, Lake
Forest Park, and South Seattle Community College. The next
workshop will be at Kirkland City Hall on May 16th. You’ll
also have an opportunity to get your hands dirty with us as
we build a rain garden at McKnight Middle School in Renton
Chief Sealth High School Students visit Delridge Rain Gardens
Stewardship Partners is proud to launch our new website.
We have made many changes that focus on usability,
navigation, branding, traffic generation and visitor
engagement. These changes will allow visitors to quickly
understand Stewardship Partners’ vision and goals and
help them understand, remember and have easy access to
our major programs.
We now are able to more easily update content and dovetail
our social media sites for users to interact. Of course it is
now easier than ever to support our work. Just look for the
donate button at the top of each page!
Visit Our New Website!
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Snoqualmie Stewardship
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and missing programs, projects and other action items for
the Valley, primarily the lower stretch below Snoqualmie
Falls. With grant support from the Bullitt Foundation, we
finalized the Strategy in the spring of 2012. The Mountains
to Sound Greenway Trust conducted their own interviews,
primarily above the falls, as part of their proposal to Congress
to designate the entire greenway as a Heritage Area. Our
combined efforts paint a comprehensive picture of the entire
Valley today and the possible future which would be built on
a strong local economy, a vibrant environment, and healthy,
connected communities.
The Bullitt Foundation encouraged us to take our work a step
further and we submitted a grant application last fall. Our
proposed project was a partnership with Mountains to Sound
Greenway Trust to invite a coalition of Snoqualmie citizens to
come together, take our findings, add to them, and make them
into realities. We are happy to announce that our proposal was
accepted in February and our partnership with the Greenway
Trust is coming together nicely. We are eager to have this
Photo
© Barrie Kovish
work enhance our restoration efforts by
encouraging
a land
ethic that is already stirring below the surface. The future of
the Valley looks bright!
Snoqualmie Stewardship
In addition to this large project, we will continue our on-theground restoration efforts to improve the riverbank and water
quality of the Snoqualmie River. We will be installing the first
of our Snoqualmie Restoration Initiative work described in last
Fall’s newsletter. We have partnered with American Farmland
Trust, Natural Resource Conservation Service, King County,
King Conservation District and the Snoqualmie Tribe to
restore over 3 miles of riverbank, remove fish passage barriers
and support agricultural operations throughout the middle
main-stem Snoqualmie. Volunteers from Duke’s Chowder
House Restaurants, PCC Farmland Trust, Wilderness
Awareness School, Keeney’s Office Supply and Boeing will be
helping us with this work. Thank you to all who support the
Snoqualmie Stewardship Program!
Snoqualmie Valley
The Snoqualmie Strategy
Through community meetings and interviews with local
constituents in 2009, Stewardship Partners created a
comprehensive report on the existing programs, policies
and movements taking place in the Snoqualmie Valley.
The interview process included many Valley stakeholders
including ecology (fish and forests), business, development,
agriculture and recreation.
The report that resulted from these interviews, which we
called the “Snoqualmie Strategy,” detailed both existing
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Financial Report
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Board of
Directors
Chair
Chris Bayley
Former King County
Prosecuting Attorney
Vice Chair
Kenan Block
Block Media &
Communications
Treasurer
Will Hartmann
IT Consultant
Secretary
J. Bowman Neely
Attorney
Hendricks & Lewis
Bill Bryant
Chairman
Bryant Christie, Inc.
Eugene Carlson
Dow Jones & Co. (retired)
Grant Jones
Principal
Jones & Jones Architects, Ltd.
Steven Patneaude
Director, 787 Systems
The Boeing Company
Dana Rasmussen
Former Regional Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
John Rose
Leora Consulting Group
Alice Shorett
Founder
Triangle Associates, Inc.
Lucas St. Clair
Community Volunteer
Sasha Visconty
Principal
Axis Environmental
Staff
Alex Ko
Salmon-Safe Rural Program Manager
Aaron Clark, Ph.D.
Rain Gardens Program Manager
David Burger
Executive Director
Ellen Southard
Salmon-Safe Urban Outreach Manager
Sean Crouter
Restoration Technician
Deborah Oaks
Snoqualmie Program Manager
Barbara Flynn
Development Director
Geoff Bough
Restoration Technician
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Thank You to our 2012 Supporters!
Sustaining Partners
$5,000 and above
Tom Alberg and Judi Beck
Eliza Flug-Coburn
Mike and Lynn Garvey
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich
Stone Gossard
Nancy S. Nordhoff
Maryanne Tagney-Jones and David Jones
$2,500 - $4,999
Chris and Cynthia Bayley
Larry Cohen
Jane Hummer
Pete Higgins and Leslie Magid
William and Sally Neukom
Bruce and Jeannie Nordstrom
David and Valerie Robinson
Jon and Judy Runstad
$1,000 - $2,499
Thomas S. Bayley
Alan and Sally Black
Bruce and Ann Blume
Richard Bressler
Bill Bryant
Eugene Carlson
Josh and Brooke Dickson
Richard and Lauren Donner
Dale and Gail Foreman
Jerry and Lyn Grinstein
William C. Hartmann
Ron and Liz Keeshan
Glen and Alison Milliman
J. Bowman Neely
Mike McCready and Ashley O’Connor
Peter Overton
Guy and Nancy Pinkerton
Dana Rasmussen
Steve and Paula Reynolds
John Rose
William Ruckelshaus
Alice Shorett
Robert and Ethel Story
Lucas St. Clair
Bill VanSickle
Sasha Visconty
Doug and Maggie Walker
Walter Weber, Jr.
Supporting Partners
$500- $999
James Allison and April Pride Allison
William and Alison Bardeen
Kenneth Bartels and Jane Condon
Frank S. Bayley
Nicholas Binkley
Jed Gorden and Sara Manetti
Hon. Slade Gorton
Brian and Anna Leslie
Todd and Mimi Menenberg
Dale T. Miller
Louise Miller
Aaron and Hilary Richmond
Richard and Bonnie Robbins
Edward Skone and Rebecca Zerngast Skone
Bill and Ruth True
James Vesely
H. S. Wright III and Kate Janeway
William W. Wurts
$499 and below
Kristen Bakken
Emery Bayley
Kirk Bailey and Shannon Beasley-Bailey
Douglas P. Beighle
Fraser and Dierdre Black
William and Mary Black
Kenan Block
John Blume
Scott Boggan and Lesley Baird-Boggan
Elisabeth Bottler
Anne C. Braddock
Herb Bridge
Nicole Brodeur
Paul Brown and Margaret Watson
Thomas Brucker
David and Gina Burger
Sarah Close
B.J. Cummings
Robert DeBennedetto and I-Ting Tsai
Chris and Gina Drake
Brian Dunham and Elizabeth Holland
Patrick and Susan Dunn
Nathanial and Sara Durkee
Gene Duvernoy
Claire Dyckman
Jim and Ann Elias
Harry and Laura Emil
Jim Erckmann
Buck Ferguson
Charles and Rose Ann Finkel
Peter Finkelman and Carly Kaufman
Dennis Fleenor
Fritz and Noreen Frink
Eric Garcia
Brandon Gillespie and Ashley Stansbury
Jenny Gruss
Mary Guiden
Julie Hampton
Jacquelyn Hanson
Gregory Heller
Grant R. Jones
Mark Johnsen
Dan and Tami Kent
Hildy Ko
John and Holland Korhumel
Jeremy and Lisa Korst
Charles Mansfield
Edward Marshall
John and Karen McKenna
Hon. John Miller
Greg and Mary Moga
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Sharon Nelson
Charles Nordhoff
Richard and Ina Nordstrom
Chris Olson and Kathy Minnis-Olson
Joe Orford and Christine Elias
Don Padelford
Cameron and Amy Pelly
Anne Phelps
Matt Pietrek and Carrie Smith
Thomas and Dixie Jo Porter
Douglass and Katherine Raff
Jeffrey Ranish
Tim Rich
John Rockwell and Linda Mevorach
Roddy Scheer and Alex Tibbetts
Masaaki and Janet Seki
Hon. Mark Sidran
Ellen and Patti Southard
James Spady
Matthew Spenny
Marnie Briggs Stamper
Edwin and Kathryn Sterner
Liann Sundquist
Scott and Ally Svenson
Annie Thenell
Randy Urmston and Eliza Davidson
Michelle Vanhorn
Mike and Camille Vaska
Frederick Whitridge
Scott and Jenny Wyatt
Corporate & Grant Funding
àMaurice
American Farmland Trust
Norman Archibald Foundation
Aven Foundation
The Boeing Company
Bullitt Foundation
Buty Winery
Caffe Vita
Deschutes Brewery
Draper Valley Farms
Dry Soda Company
Full Circle Farm
Halmie Fish Company
Hedges Family Estate
Horizons Foundation
King Conservation District
King County
Klesick Family Farm, Inc.
Charlotte Y. Martin Foundation
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Natural Resource Conservation Service
Nisqually Indian Tribe
The Norcliffe Foundation
Novelty Hill Winery
Organic Valley Family of Farms
Raven Foundation
Ridolfi Inc.
The Russell Family Foundation
Salish Cliffs Golf Club
Ethan Stowell Restaurants
Terra Blanca Winery
Via Tribunali
Washington State Department of Ecology
Whole Foods
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Message From the Chair
If you take off from Lake Union and fly due east you will arrive over the town of
Carnation at the 17 nautical mile mark, or roughly 12 minutes in DeHavilland Beaver
time. You can now proceed up or down the meandering Snoqualmie River, a productive
agricultural landscape closer to a major city than anything else its size in America. This
is a healthy alluvial valley, both environmentally and economically. The river is home to
one of the last large wild Chinook salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest, but this run is
a fraction of what it was before cultivation and home building was started by our human
species. It is from the sides of the valley, above the flood plain to the east and west that
the greatest threat to these fish comes, in the form of polluted run-off.
To date Stewardship Partners has restored over 10 miles of riverside habitat, working with
21 different “pioneer” landowners whose conservation ethic is now spreading among
their neighbors. Our long term goal is to go beyond on-the-ground restoration work
to become the catalyst for all stakeholders to permanently preserve the environmental
quality of both the bottom land and slopes above. This means healthy farms producing
local food for hungry Seattle, but also increased touring by bike, foot and car. It means
that when development does occur it follows low impact guidelines to insure that run-off
is infiltrated rather than pouring into the river.
After sweeping the valley by air, from the falls all the way north to Monroe, you can then head back to Lake Union with a vivid
impression of how close this amazing landscape is to where we urbanites live. Please tell your earthbound friends and urge
them to become a part of the long term plan to preserve. Invite them to our annual Feast on the Farm where they will see on
the ground that food and wine come from the dirt and can be consumed with great joy by friends gathered to help Stewardship
Partners!