Want to help Seattle restore 2,500 acres of urban forest land by 2020? Right in our neighborhood maybe? Seattle Parks & Recreation and EarthCorps are partnering to provide community volunteers to become citizen scientists. Volunteers older than 18 get four hours of in-depth training August 14 from 9 am to 1 pm in the scientific methodologies used to collect vegatation data at Green Seattle Partnership restoration sites. It includes plant identification, survey plot establishment, use of a compass, how to measure tree density, and more.
In return for the training, volunteers are asked to commit to establishing monitoring plots and collecting data in the Seattle area from August to October 2010, with support from EarthCorps. The data collected helps Parks staff and community groups to determine restoration priorities in the city. I’m signing up for this training, and it would be great if some other neighbors did too, so we could work together.
To sign up, contact Malia Caracoglia at 206-322-9296 or malia @earthcorps.org.
For more information on the goal of restoring 2,500 acres of urban forest land by 2020, see http://greenseattle.org/
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