photo credit: Allison Harger The Friends of Green Lake meets at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 at The Hearthstone (6720 E Green Lake Way N). All are welcome to join the meeting. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. for socializing. Friends of Green Lake volunteers monitored the Lake for temperature, water clarity, nutrients and algae through the summer. At Tuesday’s meeting, our new Lake monitors will make brief reports and we’ll have graphs summarizing this summer’s data. We’ll show the new microcystin test kit, which allows us to measure one of the toxins produced by cyanobacteria. Our main topic will be planning: Which monitoring programs…
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Volunteers sought to take water samples after potentially toxic algae spotted in Green Lake
Last Tuesday (June 21, 2011), Green Lake resident Mary Griffin spotted an algae scum in Green Lake’s waters. She snapped the following picture on the east side of the lake, near the Green Lake Community Center: King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks took a sample of the algae the next day. Sally Abella of King County DNR identified the predominant bacteria as three cyanobacteria species, including Microcystis and Anabaena, both of which can produce toxins. Preliminary chemical analysis by Washington Department of Ecology was completed Friday afternoon. It indicated 1.8 ug/L microcystis (a liver toxin), significantly less than the…
The Olmsted Legacy in Green Lake and Ravenna
We want a ground to which people may easily go after their day’s work is done, and where they may stroll for an hour seeing, hearing and feeling nothing of the bustle and jar of the streets… - Fredrick Law Olmsted Sr., 1870, “Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns” On Tuesday (April 26, 2011), the Friends of Green Lake hosted a presentation by Sue Nicol, Vice President of Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks. Sue spoke on the Olmsted plans for Green Lake Park, Ravenna Park, and Ravenna Blvd. The presentation was well-attended, with an estimated 50 people in attendance, including Mitch Spute, who provided us…
Learn about the history of Green Lake Park, Ravenna Park, and Ravenna Blvd at the next FOGL meeting
photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives The Friends of Green Lake (FOGL) are meeting on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 7 p.m. in The Hearthstone‘s chapel (6720 E Green Lake Way N). The meeting is free and open to the public. Sue Nicol of Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks will be speaking on the Olmsted plans for Green Lake Park, Ravenna Park, and Ravenna Blvd. John Charles Olmsted began designing Seattle’s park system, including Green Lake Park, in 1903. In October 2010, Nicol visited a FOGL meeting and presented on the history of Woodland Park and the Woodland Park Zoo. You can read about that presentation here.
Scenes from Saturday’s Friends of Green Lake habitat restoration party
The Friends of Green Lake hosted a habitat restoration work party at Green Lake Park last Saturday (April 2, 2011). The group removed blackberries along the southeast shoreline of Green Lake, just north of the split rail fence. The area was then re-planted with 100 native trees, shrubs, and perennials which were provided by the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation. “Within a few months,” Friends of Green Lake President Gayle Garman said, “the restored habitat will provide food and refuge for birds and other wildlife.” Saturday’s work party was the last Friends of Green Lake work party of the season. “Green Lake birds…
