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.
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Learn about the history of Green Lake Park, Ravenna Park, and Ravenna Blvd at the next FOGL meeting
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…
Join the Friends of Green Lake for a discussion about Green Lake’s algae
The Friends of Green Lake meets at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at The Hearthstone (6720 E Green Lake Way N). All are welcome to join the meeting, which will feature a discussion about Green Lake’s algae. Earlier this winter, toxic algae could be seen in Green Lake. (Read more about Green Lake’s toxic algae here.) Algologist Karl Bruun, who photographs algae through a microscope, will be sharing pictures of Green Lake’s algae, and Rob Zisette, Aquatic Science Specialist at Herrera Environmental Consultants, will compare the kinds of algae found in Green Lake before and after an alum treatment. The Friends of Green Lake’s new…
Liver toxin detected in Green Lake water sample
The Friends of Green Lake, a local group which formed in 2003 to address the massive algae blooms in Green Lake, recently alerted the neighborhood about the resurgence of toxic algae scums along Green Lake’s shoreline. On January 2, 2011, the group sent a lake water sample to the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, who forwarded the sample to a lab. The lab measured 64 mcg/liter of a microcystin, a liver toxin, in the water sample from Green Lake. According to the Washington State Department of Health, the recommended recreational guidance value for microcystins is just 6 mcg/liter. “My personal recommendation,” says Gayle Garman…
Volunteers needed to restore blackbird nesting area at Green Lake Park
All are welcome to join the Friends of Green Lake at a habitat restoration work party on Saturday, March 5, 2011, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Volunteers will work together to remove blackberries and plant native bushes at a blackbird nesting site at Green Lake Park. “This small area is a steep bank next to a cat-tail patch where blackbirds nested each year until 2010,” Gayle Garman, President of the Friends of Green Lake, says. Most of the blackberry vines at the site were removed by a group of volunteers at a September work party. The next step will be to…
